We begin a new cycle of meetings and they will focus on a very popular in our time questions about meditation. In order to talk about it, you need to understand what is meant by the term. It is fairly changed in the last few decades, and the word "meditation" is used so often that to talk about it is very difficult. In our conversations we will try to show you the essence of meditativeness. To do this, you must agree on a few basic concepts.
As a rule meditation is called as any form of concentration, relaxation, contemplation, and similar processes.
All of them are based on an energy basis, but even many practitioners do not understand the essence of what is happening. Look at how many schools of meditation, how many applied techniques, how many "easy" ways to achieve are proposed... we must still to decide "what". Today is a time that many energy concepts are distorted in almost all spheres of human life, their inner meaning is hidden from people, and in training we can often see the case that Jesus called "the throwing of beads ...." From my own experience I know that too few of those who moved in his own growth on the external effects, but an absolute majority is either completely disappointed, or automatically continue action become habitual. In the spiritual search there is nothing more devastating than disappointing.
In fact, meditativeness is a completely natural state of man, but lost in a result of the living conditions impact. Nothing is achieved, nothing is gained - just remembering what is an integral component for man. When people say "I am doing meditation," or "I am in meditation", it seems - and it is often true - that man strives to any action, or to achieving it. Of course, such actions are taking place on more or less regular basis - that is committed practice. When we talk about these phenomena, we call them the "meditativeness" - a condition that a person can "remember". Then we are not talking about some practices (making), but we talk about the possibility of the entrance to a natural state, and all available methods and techniques are not meditation, they are inputs. With this approach any search direction can be possible, and nothing can be ruled out, nothing can be advantageous - it all depends on the person, his personality.
The best analogy of what we say is a dream. It is very close to people, and everyone wants to plunge into the deepest of its condition - the so-called dreamless sleep. Just during this short period of time a person replenish spent energy. All other time you can call falling asleep, and then - getting into a natural deep sleep. And various practice methods of meditation, in fact, are only moving to a natural meditative. But the lack of understanding causes that the input is taken as the state itself, and prevents the further search. With this approach, the contradiction between the schools and methods are deleted - all of them can lead to a meditative essence but you must understand the occurring processes.
In the following discussions we will show you a meaning of this remarkable phenomenon, and we hope that things will become for you closer and clearer.