Lesson 1
Why Meditate?
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Apart from the obvious health reasons,Ā a good meditation practice will inspire your consciousness to relax its outward-facing focus, for a while, relating to the world around us, a subject-object reality, and interpret and relate to everything it notices.
When it relaxes its outward focus it can turn within and the energy of consciousness can illuminate keys within rather than sensory information.
Sometimes those keys are toĀ understand something in the psyche, and sometimes toĀ evolve consciousnessĀ toward being able to comprehend the ultimate spiritual truth.
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At first meditation is essential for several preliminary reasons:
- to practice letting go thoughts
- to give space for emotions to surface, be felt and released
- to allow time for contemplation and insights
- to thin psychological tendencies of ignorance, aversion, attraction, fear and I-am-ness.
- To practice letting go thoughts also cultivates the ability to surrender, which is needed for Self-realization. The misconception needs to be surrendered for truth to shine forth.Ā The misconception of the individual I to be the highest reality,Ā needs to be surrendered to see how theĀ Absolute is shining as all things.
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Refined reasons
After some time, meditation changes from being about concentration onto breath or object, letting go thoughts, to being progressively more about abiding in and as the natural state of nondual awareness, or a peace closely related to it. This is achieved through meditation practices that helpĀ center your awareness.
If a meditation can bring you to inner stillness and openness, it has done its part, after that the rest is not up to your ego mind, or controlling faculties, but will happen spontaneously, by the will of grace.
Refinement of meditation often occurs alongside an increase of experience of ones inner energy, spiritual interest, Kundalini activations or a fuller awakening.
