Purpose: It is to silence the “mind” and to expand the “heart”
Method: Focus
on the breath
Every
time you realize that the mind has wandered off, gently bring it back to the
breath
Bring
the mind to basic awareness of just being here and now,
Being aware of the
subject of the thoughts themselves and of the mind
Being an observer of thought, a
witness without judgement, not chasing after, not pushing off either
Just accepting as is
Goal: NOTHING
No thoughts
No grasping
Just Letting go
Grasping and reaching
are the opposites of what meditation masters teach.
Spiritual goal is commendable. But I do not know what it
means, after almost 50 years of practice. Several texts tell us that bliss and
moksha (release from samsara) are to be experienced in this life and not
something to attain after death. Also, death is not opposite of life, but
opposite of birth. Therefore, meditation is not for bliss after death or for
immortality, but to experience the immortal in us here and now. It is to open
the heart and the mind and experience the parts in the whole and the whole in
the parts.
Buddha and JK tell us to keep the mind open, like windows in
a room, after letting go of all kinds of dogmas and let whatever comes, come.
That is bliss and not a special state to work for.
Just let go and surrender to whatever is.
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