Notes On Meditation

What is our attitude to stress?

Always we say: “better out than in”.

Restlessness of the seeker is the number one tool for gaining enlightenment. No restlessness, no enlightenment.

Meditation reveals the truth.

How tired is my body?

What parts of my life are unsustainable?

What do I actually desire?

Where is the beauty in life?

What is worthy of my attention?

What is not?

Awareness is the basis of all experience.

If we are not aware, we cannot perceive. If we cannot perceive, we are unable to understand. Without understanding, we cannot appreciate. Without appreciation, we cannot connect and enjoy unity.

Resting is not doing nothing. Rest is a vital action in order to prepare for successful doing.

Stress makes everything small: limited awareness, narrow thinking, meagre understanding, petty behaviours and constriction in the body.

Meditation releases stress and life expands: more consciousness, powerful thinking, greater compassion, progressive behaviour and a relaxed, younger body.

If you decrease the temperature of a physical system, then the system increases in orderliness. Ice is a more orderly and stable form of water.

Like that, in meditation we decrease the level of excitation in the mind and body. As a result, orderliness increases in brainwave coherence, hormone production and immune functioning.

In the same way that a rope is made up of individual strands, a habit develops through repetition. Each strand on its own is weak, however when built up layer upon layer they become powerful beyond the sum of the parts.

When we resolve to do something differently, we simply begin – once. Then again. And again. And so on. Very quickly a new habit has formed.

It is not the unknown you should be afraid of. It’s the ever-repeating known you should be worried about.

An experience of true bliss is internal, not dependent upon outside circumstances. Meditation allows us to dive deep inside, stabilize the bliss of pure consciousness and then bring it out into the world.