From top-level CEOs to glamorous movie stars, everybody who is anybody does meditation these days. But you can’t really do meditation, you can only “become” meditative. Sadhguru explains how meditation is a certain quality and not an act.
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Meditation Quotes “Prayer means you are trying to tell God what to do. Meditation means you understand your limitations and shut up.” – Sadhguru “If you stop identifying with things that you are not, your mind will become still. That’s all it takes to meditate.” – Sadhguru “Yoga is the technology of upgrading, activating, and refining your inner energies for the highest possibilities.” – Sadhguru |
Learning How to Meditate
Meditation is a simple yet powerful practice with various methods which is now available to everyone from online course to meditation apps to yoga studios. Meditation can reduce stress, increase calmness and clarity and promote happiness. How do you learn to meditate? Take a deep breath, and get ready to relax. Sadhguru provides insight on how meditation is not an act but a certain quality.
Meditation – A Blossoming
Sadhguru: The moment we utter the word “meditation,” there are all kinds of misconceptions about it. First of all the English word “meditation” doesn’t mean anything in the sense, if you close your eyes and sit, in English we call it “meditation.” You can sit with your eyes closed and do many things. There are many dimensions. You can do japa, tapa, dharana, dhyana, samadhi, shoonya. Or you might have just mastered the art of sleeping in vertical postures!
So what is this thing that we call as meditation? Generally we assume that people are referring to what is known as dhyan or dhyana. In that context of referring to dhyan as meditation, it is not something that you can do. Nobody can do meditation. Why most people who have tried meditation have come to the conclusion that it’s very difficult or impossible is because they are trying to do it.
You cannot do meditation but you can become meditative. Meditation is a certain quality. It is not a certain act. If you cultivate your body, your mind, your energies and your emotions to a certain level of maturity, meditation will naturally happen. It is just like if you keep the soil fertile, if you give it the necessary manure and water and if the right kind of seed is there, it will grow and bloom into flowers and fruits.
Flowers and fruits will come out of a plant not because you want it, but simply because you created the necessary, conducive atmosphere. Similarly, if you create the necessary atmosphere within yourself, on all the four dimensions of who you are, then meditation will naturally flower within you. It is a certain fragrance that one can enjoy within himself.”
Videos on Meditation by Sadhguru
Meditation Is Not An Act
Sadhguru explains why meditation is a certain quality and not an act. It’s like the fragrance of a flower. If you cultivate your body, mind, emotions and energy to a certain level of maturity, meditation will blossom within you.
The Significance of Initiation – Yoga & Meditation
Why does meditation involve an initiation? Requiring more than just a set of instructions, as Sadhguru explains, initiation is fundamentally an energy process, much like flipping the switch of an induction motor. Though all the ingredients required for meditation may already be present, a certain energy must be applied to set everything into motion.
What is the Purpose of Meditation?
Sadhguru looks at how the purpose of meditation is not just to make one ecstatic, it is to create a “space” between you and what is your body and mind. Once this happens, this is the end of suffering.
Getting Stoned, Without Drugs – Yoga & Meditation
Detailing extensive experiments by an Israeli scientist who discovered thousands of “cannabis receptors” in the brain, Sadhguru explains that the human system itself is capable of producing such chemicals on its own. Activating the pineal gland, he says, is a fundamental part of yoga and meditation practices, through which one can be “stoned” by his own nature — without side effects.
Tools of Meditation:
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