23 dec 06 meditation

Meditation

I am going step-by-step into what is meditation. Please don't wait till the end, hoping to have a complete description of how to meditate. What we are doing now is part of meditation.

Now, what one has to do is to be aware of the thinker, and not try to resolve the
contradiction and bring about an integration between thought and the thinker. The
thinker is the psychological entity who has accumulated experience as knowledge; he
is the time-bound center that is the result of ever-changing environmental
influence, and from this center he looks, he listens, he experiences. As long as one
does not understand the structure and the anatomy of this center, there must always
be conflict, and a mind in conflict cannot possibly understand the depth and the
beauty of meditation.

In meditation there can be no thinker, which means that thought must come to an end
- the thought that is urged forward by the desire to achieve a result. Meditation
has nothing to do with achieving a result. It is not a matter of breathing in a
particular way, or looking at your nose, or awakening the power to perform certain
tricks, or any of the rest of that immature nonsense. ...Meditation is not something
apart from life. When you are driving a car or sitting in a bus, when you are
chatting aimlessly, when you are walking by yourself in a wood or watching a
butterfly being carried along by the wind - to be choicelessly aware of all that is
part of meditation.

The Book of Life - December 23