Sushi: Is it true that when you follow one model of meditation you must persist with it? I do expertise the silence you point out, however I don’t know why I don’t dissolve into it. I don’t let myself get misplaced.
I preserve watching my breath or different components, particularly my head the place stress builds up. I expertise an vitality in me stand up and float down after seconds, however I preserve my consideration on my breath as I’ve learn to not overlook consciousness because the essence.
I perceive there are totally different practices and maybe nothing is correct or fallacious, besides that one shouldn’t cling to the fruit of any effort, together with the trouble that one places in creating a daily follow. Am I fallacious?
Please additionally let me know easy methods to conduct oneself in every day life in order to progress in non secular life. What we take care of in every day life may very well be stepping stones to a greater understanding of ourselves, but it surely may be like a whirlpool, typically dragging us right down to sq. one.
Jagjot: I feel you must follow no matter model you naturally adapt to. And rest is the important thing right here. For a few years, I did Vipassana, as watching the motion of breath was pure for me. I don’t do it anymore. I meditate just for 5 to 10 minutes, and solely twice every week.
I wrote that e book on meditation lengthy again, and numerous it’s prescriptive, however it’s not from the standpoint of self-realization.Whereas all practices are helpful, I don’t declare that any methodology or follow can result in self-realization.
Self-realization just isn’t about including something however subtracting the layers of conditioning. Whereas listening to a realized soul as soon as, he stated, “you’re not the doer.” These phrases and the best way he spoke them, destroyed every thing. I had listened to these phrases many instances earlier than, however this time they sunk deep. It was an instantaneous awakening.
At that very immediate, my identifications started dissolving. No marvel our conventional methodology of educating was shravana (listening to oration).After that, there was no want for something educating or follow. When the private identifications dissolve, who’s there to hunt, and what?
Nisargadatta Maharaj stated that overlook about discovering the reality, discover what you’re not and also you’ll arrive on the reality. I consider that’s the finest path for any non secular seeker. As a result of when you begin imagining self-realization, your thoughts will create a picture so that you can cling to. That is among the worst pitfalls as it may possibly result in non secular ego, which is among the worst types of the ego.
The issue is previous conditioning which runs deep inside our psyche. Now we have been given ideas after ideas. Learn Vedas. Learn Upanishads. Learn Gita. Each non secular group has its personal strategies and methods. Each faith is filled with dogmas. None of it helps. The truth is, it brings about nice struggling as your thoughts experiences cognitive dissonance.
We attempt to imbibe fashionable values whereas sticking to our conventional values. That creates confusion. When kids innocently query custom, they’re silenced. Thoughts is a hypocrite. It doesn’t need what it claims, and it doesn’t declare what it actually desires. And that is one thing to be witnessed.
That’s exactly the explanation why we get dragged down again to sq. one. We’re too fixated on teachings, strategies, and prescriptions. Any meditation will calm your thoughts briefly. The thoughts will get to know that you simply follow meditation at a hard and fast time day by day, and due to this fact, it creates an phantasm of calm for that specified time interval.
However the second you go about your every day routine, the conditioning is again and the agitation returns. No matter you do is a narrative that the thoughts tells itself. I did this or that, and so, I ought to be at peace. Peace, nonetheless, is realizing that you’re not the thoughts. I’m not implying that you simply shouldn’t do something. No. Observe any methodology or educating that brings peace and takes you nearer to your self.
It doesn’t matter the way you conduct your self as a result of there’s no “you.” Don’t get too caught up in all that. You see, Sushi, you’re free. You’ve at all times been free. And what’s occurring round you is just a narrative in your thoughts. Do what you’re feeling like since you’re not the doer. There’s nobody right here. It’s your story, but it surely’s only a story. You’re the author, you’re not the story.