04-07-2012, 12:48 PM
Though certainly a quiet, calm, peaceful outer environment helps in meditation, it is not exactly needed if one can already reach that inner state of tranquility that is called silence or stillness.
Remember, the outer has always sprung out if the inner.
There are varying degrees of depth to meditation, shall we say. One can meditate while taking a shower, while baking bread, or even at work every day. How deep you go into it will be determined by the degree in which you "lose yourself" to the outer world. You can use this as a measuring gauge of sorts.
"Meditate" comes from the Latin root meditat, meditari, which simply means to ponder deeply, as a state of devout, profound, prayerful contemplation. One need not "stop" thinking (as it is mis-taught among various spiritual/esoteric schools). You are Thought after all. And meditation is by defect a process of the mind. Note the similarity between meditation and mentation.
Think of meditation as a medium or intermedium (from Latin medius, median, "of the middle") to find your middle-ground, to center yourself, to find your focus, your still-point.
One can use music and other tools to aid in the process of meditation. But again, there are varying degrees to the depths of meditation than can be attained—and this has a lot to do with the intensity of will/faith of the seeker and his/her own degree of awareness/consciousness/intelligence (as well as its given biases, distortions and limitation). Yet no matter what tool is used to assist/guide/stimulate the seeker in this process, one can still reach the point in which all external notion of sound or time or space fade from the mind's perception/awareness (and yet this doesn't change the fact that the music is still playing in your room, and the clock is still ticking).
So yes, the key or gateway to Intelligent Infinity is the deepest, innermost focus within oneself that is translated/perceived as silence or stillness. And yes, one can still meditate with the aid of music to help in setting the appropriate "ambience," shall we say ("the right mood"), or space/time and time/space configurations which are conducive to achieving a meditative/trance-like state.
Remember, the outer has always sprung out if the inner.
There are varying degrees of depth to meditation, shall we say. One can meditate while taking a shower, while baking bread, or even at work every day. How deep you go into it will be determined by the degree in which you "lose yourself" to the outer world. You can use this as a measuring gauge of sorts.
"Meditate" comes from the Latin root meditat, meditari, which simply means to ponder deeply, as a state of devout, profound, prayerful contemplation. One need not "stop" thinking (as it is mis-taught among various spiritual/esoteric schools). You are Thought after all. And meditation is by defect a process of the mind. Note the similarity between meditation and mentation.
Think of meditation as a medium or intermedium (from Latin medius, median, "of the middle") to find your middle-ground, to center yourself, to find your focus, your still-point.
One can use music and other tools to aid in the process of meditation. But again, there are varying degrees to the depths of meditation than can be attained—and this has a lot to do with the intensity of will/faith of the seeker and his/her own degree of awareness/consciousness/intelligence (as well as its given biases, distortions and limitation). Yet no matter what tool is used to assist/guide/stimulate the seeker in this process, one can still reach the point in which all external notion of sound or time or space fade from the mind's perception/awareness (and yet this doesn't change the fact that the music is still playing in your room, and the clock is still ticking).
So yes, the key or gateway to Intelligent Infinity is the deepest, innermost focus within oneself that is translated/perceived as silence or stillness. And yes, one can still meditate with the aid of music to help in setting the appropriate "ambience," shall we say ("the right mood"), or space/time and time/space configurations which are conducive to achieving a meditative/trance-like state.
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