Meditation happens, it is not practiced- Anant Sri
When I do not ask you to meditate at home, or I do not give instructions and neither do I follow it up, it does not mean you don’t have to meditate at all. It is just that I believe your good judgment will prevail and you will feel free to decide for yourself, how to go about it. If I give you set guidelines, you will get tied down and you might go into guilt, if you fail to do as instructed. I want to save you from all the guilt and leave you free to walk in your own comfortable way. Therefore, I leave it to your discretion.
Regarding doing of meditation, again here is a problem. In fact, I am uncomfortable using the term doing meditation. Meditation is no doing, it is a happening. Practice of meditation is not meditation. You can’t practice meditation. You can only do something to create the atmosphere, the background for meditation to take place, but meditation happens on its own, naturally. It happens when there is no doer and no doing, only the happening happens.
From time immemorial meditation techniques have been given by the Masters. I am also suggesting new techniques every day. No technique is old or new, no technique is good or bad. The techniques help you to strengthen your resolve. Your body and mind are in a continuous conflict, the mind wants something, the body wants something else and you are put to stress. The meditation techniques create harmony in your body mind system and relax you. Once they function in accord, once they get harmonized; the ground for the happening of meditation is ready. Then you drop all doing and practice and wait.
The meditation just happens and you are thrown into your being. Then there is no need for techniques, you can drop them. You can be playful with them.
Meditation is just like flowering. The flower blooms when all conditions for blooming are fulfilled. It is a flowering of totality. Likewise, meditation is flowering of absoluteness; a tranquility in the entire existence. There is no individual doer. When you go within in search of a doer as to who is doing meditation, you find there is none. It is your mind, which is the doer. And once the mind is transcended, then it is not doing, it is a happening. When all things are in harmony, when there is not even the slightest discord, when all the conditions are met with, then it happens like a flowering of totality.
Once you attain a level of resolve that anything happening in your life, any turmoil outside does not disturb your inner state of peace within you, then and only then, you can do away with the techniques. But till such time that you attain to such a state of inner harmony of your body, mind and consciousness, you need to experiment with the techniques and find the one that works for you. And that specific technique will be the best for you.
But one technique does not work for all. All techniques are equally good, you cannot grade them, you just need to find the one that suits you and make use of that to attain the equipoise and then drop it.
Civilized people might say that I do not believe in any religion, is any sect, in any cult but then they get obsessed with techniques and fight over their technique propagating them to be the best.
Then there are people who keep on practicing them all their life like a ritual and it does not work that way. Even years of such practice does not bring about any transformation.
Then people want to know how long they have to meditate, because they associate it with doing. You need to get it deep into your system, once and for all, that meditation is not doing something; in fact it is a cessation of all activity. It cannot be practiced. Once you understand meditation, you are in meditation all the time.
Some people get fascinated with the new wave of let go and do nothing saying that we are just letting it go. But that is not what the Masters meant by saying let go. They meant that once you have attained to a certain level of discipline and harmony within, you can let it go and allow the existence to take over but not before that.
Meditation is a deep understanding, it is existential.
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