Meditation Quotes...

"Observing discipline and having heard and contemplated the teachings, one applies oneself intensively to meditation."

-  Vasubandhu

 

"The first and most important gigong meditation is called ru jing ("entering tranquillity"). Entering tranquillity means training the mind to be silently aware with any particular point of focus.  It is nothingness.  The mind is not thinking about but rather experiencing directly, immediately, without the mediation of thoughts and concepts.  Ancient Taoist classics called this "the fasting of the mind."
-   Kenneth S. Cohen, The Way of Qigong, p. 148

"He only is wise who devotes himself to realizing, not reading only, the ancient relevations.  Solve all your problems through meditation.  Exchange unprofitable religious speculations for actual God-contact.
-  Paramhansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, p. 315.  

Meditation is the art of staying in this present moment. A sleepy person either lives in the past moment or is dreaming about the future life. But a meditator stays in this present moment and is alert about his thoughts and actions.

Meditation is not thinking about any god, chanting any mantra or practicing any concentration exercise. Meditation is to be passively aware of our thoughts and feelings.

Meditation is to know oneself as one is. It is see our real face with out any mask. When we practice meditation then we are bound to come across dark side of our nature which we are suppressing in our unconscious mind. But through meditation we can transform these desires by being a passive watcher of them. (just a witness!)

Passive witnessing of thoughts and desires transforms them. Witnessing means to watch the thoughts with out interpreting, interfering or analyzing them. Witnessing is the art of just watching the thoughts coming and going.

Meditation can be practiced all the time and even in a market place. Meditation is all about being conscious and aware of our actions, thoughts and feelings.

Meditation is an twenty hour affair. One hour of meditation can not tackle the unconsciousness of rest of the day. Slowly we should bring our meditative quality in all our actions.

Meditation is not a goal or achievement. Meditation has no seeking or desire. In meditation we become aware of our desires and goals. If some one is seeking any goal through meditation then it is another game of mind and not worth pursuing it.

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