SHACK 4155 MEDITATION

 

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Perhaps one of the most contentious subjects to discuss or even attempt to explain is meditation. To some meditation is to contemplate some meaningful writing, browse into a mirror, think deeply, repeat a mantra, breathe work, do yoga and Tai chi or just get the mind into a soporific drowsy mind just on the brink of sleep or employing any technique. So how can meditation come about?

All these points above can lead to the awareness of thought and then by the witnessing of thought, emotions and feelings, to most thoughts are continual and seeming spontaneous never watched as an inner viewing, they go along as an automatic programme, indeed one may never actually sit down and just watch from one's inner TV screen the so called screen of mind, a sort of inner gazing and should one pursue this inner gazing, one can get to experience thoughts as separate from the gazer or viewer and realise where do these thought arise from and seem to drift out of or dissolve and then the realisation and research as to the content and so on and one may reach a conclusion they are programmes and get into my pet view inculcation, the cloned conditioned brain washed mind.

However one may witness a gap, a break between thoughts and sequences of thoughts and experience brief interludes of quiet or to realise how 'noisy and annoying' thoughts are, not annoying because of their emotional content but by their seeming banal essence and some are just 'not me' do not ring true and are irksome. Then one may come to the realisation these gaps, getting past drowsiness, disciplining by stopping or encouraging these gaps and this becomes futile and one can give up at this point, however the gaps between these thoughts are peaceful and somewhat still. Then there can arrive a battle to seek the gaps and the restless programmes of a seemingly other you then to discover this other you is a set of programmes and probably named ego (again go into research or my articles on inculcation).

This 'battle' between the ego and the gaps can become quite intense and some give up and some never achieve living with gaps and some become the gaps either continuing to live in the body with minimum thoughts just enough to live in the world and some can live in the world with fuller thoughts because the gaps are now natural to one and the 'pull or magnetic' influence of the ego has sufficiently subsided. One also realises that the mind in a way does not exist it is the content of the ego thoughts that make a sort of entity named mind, by the experience of this an awakening appears and one realises the ego is more or less just a bunch of thoughts that configure and and adapt(more in inculcation).

So in my view meditation is a means to reach not by technique but by exposing the false narratives and mind movies of the ego which in itself has no foundation or substance but is a conditioned set of programmes and its foundation is based on shifting sands and that the gap which is an alert dynamic yet peaceful consciousness is actually who one is.

So in fact one no longer meditates as such it happens automatically seemingly spontaneously, the 'call' of the quietness, the intuitive feel of the stillness and it will come at spontaneous moments and maybe eventually it will engulf one and either one will leave the body or remain however this stillness is natural and all consuming this is meditation when the stillness calls one instinctively and one realises this is our true nature.

SHACK    aka     GEOFF

Some call the allure of the 'stillness' akin to the 'ancient mariners siren song only it is not luring them onto the rocks' so to speak.

Some compare this to the 'beloved' the souls lover of itself and spirit. Often writers and mystics have compared it to a love affair. It is indeed beautiful and sublime, of course Rumi was one of those wonderful souls who felt the 'touch'