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Meditation
Meditation at its core is the training, or the directing, or the focus of attention in a deliberate way. Also it is the human capacity to open to perspectives larger than the ordinary consciousness or the small, separate sense of self. And there are a hundred forms of them. There’s shamanic forms, and Buddhist forms, and Hindu, and Kabalistic, and Jewish meditations, and Christian mystical, and Sufi, and Muslim, And so on.
The main categories of meditation include devotional practice, and these focus us on inspiration and love. And they open us to pray, or worship, or become inspired, or even become one with that ideal or that to which we’re devoted, to connect to something bigger and to show practices through prayer, through song, through visualization. And it can be to spirits or the divine in all kinds of forms.
Concentration
There are many forms of concentration. And concentration means the ability of this mind and psyche, the capacity, to attend to quite fully, to focus, and in its deepest level to become unified with a particular experience. There are visual concentrations, outer ones of a candle flame or an image. It can be a tree or it can be a sacred mandala.
There are all kinds of ways to concentrate the mind. But all of them require a repetition, where you do it a 100 and 1,000 and 10,000 times until you become so focused on that experience that all the thoughts and difficulties and other parts of your identity begin to drop away. And you become one with that experience. And in doing so, the mind becomes not only focused, but quiet, and peaceful, and directed, and often quite ecstatic.
Another form of concentration, besides a vision, where you have a mandala, or an image, or a candle, is mantra practice. That sacred repetition of a sound, or a sacred sound, or a name. And in that repetition, the mind starts to get both concentrated and focused and shift from ordinary consciousness to the experience of that sound and what it invites you into.
Or there are concentrations which focus on the body itself. And as you get more and more deeply concentrated, you can not only sense the body, but dissolve it into vibrations, and dissolve it into light, or into space or many other possibilities.
Bring this home
Here, where you are quiet the mind and open your heart. Let your heart be wise.
With one hand in the beauty of the world and one hand in the suffering of all beings.And two feets grounded in the present moment.
The only place to truly love is just where you are. Love in the past is a memory, love in the future is a fantasy.
Today is today. Today is not yesterday, today is not tomorrow. Today is today.
Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still.
For once on the face of the earth, let’s not speak in any language; let’s stop for one second, it would be an exotic moment without rush, without engines; we would all be together in a sudden strangeness.
Live your life in the world. The water goes on down the stream. You chop the wood and carry the water. You do your thing.
Sikh Story
A holy man gave two men each a chicken. And said:
“Go kill them when no one can see”.
One guy went behind the fence and killed the chicken.
The other guy walked around for two days and came back with the chicken.
The holy man said: you didn’t kill the chicken? The guy said:
“well everywhere I go, the chicken sees”
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The Meditative Mind
We seat together the Ocean and me until only the ocean remains
If you know, you are the ocean, then you are not afraid of waves