(12-04-2012, 06:20 AM)mihai Wrote: [ -> ]Hello dear all,
Do you meditate? If so, how often, what exactly are your meditations about (vipassana/anapanasati, listening to sound of silence [as suggested in LOO], devotional, visualizations, simple body/mind awareness, etc.)?
Myself I usually do anapanasati, sound of silence and body awareness, somewhat on a daily basis for variable lengths of time (from 10 minutes up to an hour, depending on available time). I am strongly defined by past experience of spending time at a Buddhist Monastery in UK where I was even a formal novice (anagarika).
What is your experience with meditation?
Welcome to this small community of seekers my friend.
If you spent time in a Buddhist Monastery you will know that discipline is a vital aspect toward achieving specific goals.
The underlined quote which Lycen had pointed out about transmission and reception speaks directly to that.
In a state of focused concentration of either transmitting or receiving, only one or the other can be accomplished.
It is for this reason that we must ask ourselves why we are meditating and what we hope to accomplish through the process.
There are a few very different reasons for meditating. Some do it to relax and heal. Others do it because they are searching their souls. Others seek connection and opportunity. And some meditate for the purpose of enchanting.
I know that some use timing devices to establish a alot a specific duration to the process. This may be necessary if one is attempting to meditate prior to leaving for an appointment that cannot be missed. But overall, I would state that such clutter does not enhance the process for in that state, if one is constantly awaiting the ringing of an alarm, the true state of being cannot be properly achieved. It is like trying to meditate while someone is standing behind you and tapping you on the shoulder with ten minute reminders.
I like to do mine at night, when all is quiet and I know I am not going to be interrupted or have any reason to leave at a specific time. I have often remained still into the early hours of morning and not missed the sleep at all.
I think Yossarrian would support me in this regard, that New Age meditation is very different from its origins. The opening of the chakras for self healing seems to have become the main goal of modern meditation.
However the true reason for self healing has been altered to become simply the healing of self, when in fact, its origins are the antithesis of that.
Healing one's self was never meant to be the healing of one's temporary delusional identity/vehicle, as the ancients were all too aware of the fleeting aspect of such.
Polishing off the rust of the old cart will make it shine, but at some point that cart will be replaced by another.
Healing one's self was always meant to be for the purpose of healing The All and The One; the enchanting of the whole by the enchantment of the fragment.
The first aspect of meditation should be to bring one into a true realization of exactly 'what' they are; not 'who' they are temporarily. And this often why meditation fails for many.
They seek in that process to find confirmation of their temporary identity, which does not even exist at all.
How can one find something that does not exist?
The first thing one discovers in true meditation is that what they find 'in there' is not the same as this temporary vehicle they are driving. They become suddenly aware that 'they' are driving this form, and not the form itself. From that point on their rituals become a matter of connecting to that
'difference' between their outer experience as the vehicle they thought they were, and the driving force behind the wheel that they actually are. They seek to connect to what the Ancients called 'The Inbetween', or 'The Otherworld'. That plane between the reflection and the source, which connects the two.
In the Inbetween we become both human and god, and yet still unable to attain either. Yes, we are trapped in the cycle of Divine Design, and will ultimately return until we reach a point of evolved status where reincarnation is no longer necessary.
Meditation becomes that lifeline connecting the divine with the fragment. That lifeline is a sacred fire that burns within every form. Realizing it, awakening that awareness of it, and connecting to it, is the goal of mediation.
This is what all of this reference to opening the chakras and the kundalini awakening is all about and always has been about.
It is expanding one's circle into the unknown Mystery to further fuel that fire which resides within you, altering the vibration of your circle in an effort to enchant the many other fields with which you are so deeply connected.
Enchantment is the harmonizing of frequency.
Meditation is a tool enabling that harmonization.
(12-23-2012, 08:44 AM)Eddie Wrote: [ -> ]I use a technique learned from Whitley Strieber: I focus my awareness on each part of the body in a particular sequence, ending up at the third eye. Usually I do only this; sometimes I follow it with manifesting white light inside myself, and/or in others; or occasionally I follow it with various chakra meditations.
I've been doing this for about 5 years. I now live in a semi-meditative state; I'm very placid and not bothered by much.
Once again a synchronization due to such harmonizing occurs before our eyes.
How wonderful that my next thoughts were written before I could put them down by someone bearing my true name.
This technique which Eddie speaks of was taught to me by my mother, a catholic Nun, and my first experience with true out of body sensation occurred one night while doing this which resulted in my first experience with levitation.
Of course such things were seen in the church as demonic and was not accepted as holy practice, but scorned on as pagan ritual. Just as many here mistakenly refer to Lucifer as satan or somehow associated with darkness and evil, when in fact Lucerifera is lightbringer.
The Light which dances in the form of every creation, is that which we should always seek in our meditative states, regardless of the religious misunderstandings and interpretations of otherselves.
I know that there are some here who think I am Lucifer. I know that many fear interaction with me. And I know the true identity which I find within, and it is filled to the brim with Light and love, connected to the Divine in ways that I wish you could all know immediately. But that is simply a matter of evolving naturally which cannot be interfered upon.
This could be described as the truest definition of meditation, '..stepping into a vehicle which will accelerate one's evolution process when done properly...', and in that process of evolving self we also evolve and enchant the whole. We effectively become a ground/connecting rod between fields. We become the Christ form at the axis of the cross.
Some have come to speak of this as the Merkaba, often misrepresenting it.
yep, I can relate to that and learning to be okay with things as they are.
