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meditation
the inner strip-show:
True Meditation is the space in which everything gets
revealed, everything gets seen, everything gets experienced.
Zen meditation, zazen, is the traditional discipline by
which ... contact with the innermost workings of Life, with the True
Self, is made.
Perception without the
perceiver in meditation is to commune with the height and depth of the
immense. This perception is entirely different from seeing an object
without an observer, because in that perception there is no object and
therefore no experience. Meditation can, however, take place when the
eyes are open and one is surrounded by objects of every kind. But then
these objects have no importance at all. One sees them but there is no
process of recognition, which means there is no experiencing.
True meditation has no direction, goals, or method. All
methods aim at achieving a certain state of mind. All states are
limited, impermanent and conditioned. Fascination with states only leads
to bondage and dependence. True meditation is abidance as primordial
consciousness. True meditation appears in consciousness spontaneously
when awareness is not fixated on objects of perception.
What an extraordinary thing meditation is. If there is any
kind of compulsion, effort to make thought conform, imitate, then it
becomes a wearisome burden. The silence which is desired ceases to be
illuminating; if it is the pursuit of visions and experiences, then it
leads to illusions and self-hypnosis. Only in the flowering of thought
and so ending thought does meditation have significance; thought can
only flower in freedom not in ever-widening patterns of knowledge.
Knowledge may give newer experiences of greater sensation but a mind
that is seeking experiences of any kind is immature. Maturity is the
freedom from all experience; it is no longer under any influence to be
and not to be. Maturity in meditation is the freeing of the mind from
knowledge for it shapes and controls all experience. A mind which is a
light to itself needs no experience. Immaturity is the craving for
greater and wider experience. Meditation is the wandering through the
world of knowledge and being free of it to enter into the unknown.
The practice of
meditation is represented by the three monkeys, who cover their eyes, ears and mouths so as to avoid the
phenomenal world.
Owing to misuse of words one should not say, 'Don't meditate!' One has
to say, 'Don't call it 'meditation' if it is not, but if it is - don't
do it!'
Meditation is noticing the imagined sitting, standing,
talking, laughing, listening, reading the paper, drinking tea. It's
quietly being as each image, thought, judgment, concept, scene,
illusion, dream of what can never be.
There are three words that convey the secret of the art
of living, the secret of all success and happiness: One With Life. Being
one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't
live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the
dance.
As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing,
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