By Eknath Easwaran
In Easwaran’s common approach to passage meditation, you decide a non secular textual content, or passage, from the world’s nice traditions that embodies your maximum beliefs. You memorize it, after which ship it deep into awareness via sluggish, sustained realization. this system of meditation remains clean since you can fluctuate the passages in accordance with your individual wishes. With commonplace perform, the passages develop into lifelines, taking you to the resource of knowledge deep inside of after which guiding you thru the demanding situations of day-by-day life.
Meditation is supported by means of seven different issues in Easwaran’s religious application, aiding you to stick calm, sort, and targeted through the day.
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In this absorption, this great gathering within, we break through the surface of consciousness and plummet deep, deep into our real nature. What we discover cannot be put into words, but thereafter we are never again the same. With all our consciousness gathered to an intense focus within, the boundaries that seem to separate us from the rest of the world disappear. The duality of subject and object, knower and known, falls away; we are opened to a transcendental mode of knowing. Albert Einstein must have glimpsed this when he wrote from the perspective of a great physicist: 34 introduction A human being is a part of the whole, called by us “Universe,” a part limited in time and space.
I must have a cosmic mandala cushion, sit in a pyramid, and inhale only Astral Vision brand Illumination Incense. In meditation, the only equipment you really need is the will, and you can’t buy that through the mail. It is good to meditate with others. Ideally, the whole family can use the same room and meditate together; it strengthens their relationships. Similarly, even if they don’t live in the same 54 chapter one house, two or three friends can gather together in one home for morning and evening meditation.
When you go on concentrating on the passage even during waves of emotion, your meditation is immeasurably deepened. Earlier I mentioned the mind’s many tricks and distractions, and here I can add one of its cleverest: tempting us with interior stimuli. You may see lights, perhaps brilliant ones, or hear sounds. Some people are fascinated by such things; they become hypnotized by the eruptions of light, by the colors and shapes. They relax their hold on the passage and stay back to watch the show.