The secrets to proper meditation offered here are not for everybody. They will only be of value to those who yearn for the truth. Without a burning desire to know the truth, the meditation practice we teach will not work. In fact, it is the anathema of anyone who is unwilling to face the truth.
The reason why this special meditation, though it is very simple, is not for everyone is because only someone who is willing to make truth more important than their own ego will be willing to practice it properly.
This might be a good time to mention that most people spend most of their lives, increasingly as they age, lost in thinking and imagination. They prefer the imagination (though it may become frightful and worrisome) to Reality. In reality, they would have to face their inferiority, inadequacy, imperfection, and selfishness.
Most people go out in the world, fail, get upset, and then retreat into thought. There they relive the past, plan for the future, worry, scheme, and dream. And when plain upset is not enough to trip them into their daydreams, then they employ stronger images, lust or rage. When these emotions become draining, they turn to drugs, alcohol, pills, or other excesses to dull perception and put them into dream time.
However, being aware, in reality and in the moment, is the natural state of consciousness. We all had it when we were little children before we were teased, challenged, pressured, and emotionalized away from it.
Most meditations only continue or even deepen this emotionalized trance state. Visusalizations, for example, or mindless repetition of some sound or word, only keep one separated from reality. Lost in the image or words, helped by the hypnotic authority who is guiding you there, the trance is restful. But the person remains entranced and has even less control.
Other meditations promise peace or relaxation. Again, they may produce some temporary benefits but only because negative thoughts are temporarily blocked and the ego is caught up in its newfound technique to make itself holy, good, innocent and happy.
I will have much more to say on the topic later. But for now, let me just say that where most meditations ultimately fail is because they leave out God.
Nowadays, a person can go to work, listen to the radio, talk to others, go to school, and now even meditate: leaving God completely out.
We, as a society are removing acknowledging God from everywhere, even taking the 10 Commandments out of the courthouse. But when one lives one's own private existence as if there were no God, something is terribly wrong. No matter how nice one acts, it becomes a life of denial.
Of course, some meditations pay lip service to a universal "force" or claim to honor what is "best in all religions," etc. But their bland generalities couch a harmful pridefulness and denial.
For this reason, a decent person, who is really looking for God, will become guilty when involved in any group or activity that is not coming from a good place. Even religious study tends to cause guilt because study builds pride and puts us in conflict with conscience from God.
The reason why this special meditation, though it is very simple, is not for everyone is because only someone who is willing to make truth more important than their own ego will be willing to practice it properly.
This might be a good time to mention that most people spend most of their lives, increasingly as they age, lost in thinking and imagination. They prefer the imagination (though it may become frightful and worrisome) to Reality. In reality, they would have to face their inferiority, inadequacy, imperfection, and selfishness.
Most people go out in the world, fail, get upset, and then retreat into thought. There they relive the past, plan for the future, worry, scheme, and dream. And when plain upset is not enough to trip them into their daydreams, then they employ stronger images, lust or rage. When these emotions become draining, they turn to drugs, alcohol, pills, or other excesses to dull perception and put them into dream time.
However, being aware, in reality and in the moment, is the natural state of consciousness. We all had it when we were little children before we were teased, challenged, pressured, and emotionalized away from it.
Most meditations only continue or even deepen this emotionalized trance state. Visusalizations, for example, or mindless repetition of some sound or word, only keep one separated from reality. Lost in the image or words, helped by the hypnotic authority who is guiding you there, the trance is restful. But the person remains entranced and has even less control.
Other meditations promise peace or relaxation. Again, they may produce some temporary benefits but only because negative thoughts are temporarily blocked and the ego is caught up in its newfound technique to make itself holy, good, innocent and happy.
I will have much more to say on the topic later. But for now, let me just say that where most meditations ultimately fail is because they leave out God.
Nowadays, a person can go to work, listen to the radio, talk to others, go to school, and now even meditate: leaving God completely out.
We, as a society are removing acknowledging God from everywhere, even taking the 10 Commandments out of the courthouse. But when one lives one's own private existence as if there were no God, something is terribly wrong. No matter how nice one acts, it becomes a life of denial.
Of course, some meditations pay lip service to a universal "force" or claim to honor what is "best in all religions," etc. But their bland generalities couch a harmful pridefulness and denial.
For this reason, a decent person, who is really looking for God, will become guilty when involved in any group or activity that is not coming from a good place. Even religious study tends to cause guilt because study builds pride and puts us in conflict with conscience from God.
I know, many do not feel comfortable with the pressures of false churchianity.
For the pure in heart, only the real thing will do. Such people often scour the ends of the earth, because they are searching. They try everything. They rebel against the false. They are keen to detect deception. They keep searching. And then, one day they find the Truth, not in books or lectures, but in the wordless Truth within.
For the pure in heart, only the real thing will do. Such people often scour the ends of the earth, because they are searching. They try everything. They rebel against the false. They are keen to detect deception. They keep searching. And then, one day they find the Truth, not in books or lectures, but in the wordless Truth within.
