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To discover the True Self and Authentic Joy
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I learned different methods and tried different ones and found the best one that I was comfortable with.
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Meditation is freedom from the mind and identification of the mind and movement towards the ecstasy of the Truth.
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Self Consciousness
Meditation with open eyes
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The first step is with open eyes we watch an object like a tree. As we are watching we would not do any of this:
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Analyze the tree (how beautiful this tree is!)
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Evaluate it (I wonder how old it is)
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There should be utterly no thought about the tree.
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As we are watching, our attention should not be at the tree (
object Consciousness
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Our attention should be on the Silent Watcher within us that is watching only and not thinking nor evaluating.
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If the thoughts arrive, watch the thoughts with no judgment. Let it pass.
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After a while, a few days or months, this simple activity will bring us such joy. This is an unconditional joy. Nothing happened outside, we are here, the tree is there, the watcher is here watching. And suddenly, this joy!
This joy arrives when the mind stops. Joy arrives in the absence of the thinking mind. And for the first time, we experience the authentic inner joy from within.
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This meditation will help us remember to be a silent watcher at all times. It will empower this inner authentic power day by day and that is the key of being joyful.
I will talk about this again when I bring up the Authentic power of the present moment.
Meditation with closed eyes
This is now a little more challenging.
Before we only look at a tree and became aware of the silent watcher inside who is watching the tree. Now we close our eyes. We watch the thoughts which is also exist in form. However, it is more subtle than any regular material form. We need to see the silent watcher as the sky and the thoughts that will come one after another as the clouds of this sky. They will come one after another. Just watch them. Do not judge them. Do not say
“I wonder why am I have this many thoughts"
or
"how come my mind does not quiet down
?” After a while, ask your mind this question:
What is the next thought?
This is a very difficult question for the mind to answer since mind does not know what the next thought is! Our mind thinks randomly so, therefore, cannot answer this question. Since it is unable to answer, it will quiet down. We need to jump in between the gap of the TWO thoughts and just be a watcher there. The watcher of nothingness. Be the watcher of this silence and hold it as much as possible. At the beginning, it could be a few seconds; however, by and by, the gap will get larger and larger and finally one day you will see for yourself what you needed to see. Suddenly through this silent nothingness, anything that is not real and is not you such as your thoughts, your feelings, your false identity, your belongings, your relatives and your friends will drop.
Now you are facing the real you which is pure silence, peace, kindness, tenderness and pure joy. Now for the first time, you know who you really are. Nothingness is one side of a coin and everything that will be created from this nothingness is the other side of the coin. You will notice for the first time your “true self” which is eternal, immortal, not vulnerable, powerful and blissful.
This feeling is a thousand times more powerful and real that the first meditation of just watching the tree. This is just like walking to a dark room, at the beginning we cannot see any thing; however, by and by due to the light of the moon from the window, we will be able to identify the items in the room after a minute or two. The clearance also happens during meditation. At the beginning, it is dark and unfamiliar, as your patience deepens with time, the feelings opens up to us...then you may continue...
The ultimate state is to be Watcher of the Watcher
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The final stage here is after this meditation that you become the watcher of this nothingness, Try to “turn upon yourself.”
This means, try to be the Watcher of this Watcher.
Be the observer of this observer. At the beginning it will be hard again, however by practicing, it will happen. This is ultimate peace and truth.
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I would highly recommend meditation to you ,my beautiful children, since this will help you to reach to the truth which is within you. We take thousands of steps outside to achieve success and security, and we need to take one step to go within to discover the Truth.
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As human beings we have given this chance to come to this world to discover ourselves as this divine, loving and eternal being and find the same essence in others.
This is Unity consciousness-- moving toward the core of your being.
At last we need to know as Buddha says, “Self Remembering,"
which means now that we know who we are,
we need to remember our self as this "silent watcher" which is non judgmental at all times.
This will help our true self to get empowered and show up in our daily life. This way our true self will talk, think, and make
choices through us. For the first time, the wheel of the car is in the hands of our conscious self rather that our “bare mind.” The bare mind is our unattended, unwatched and unsupervised mind or ego who usually ran our lives.
***Remember: To Know ourselves as the Authentic Being underneath the thinking mind, the silence underneath the chattering mind, and the true joy and bliss underneath the misery on the surface, is Success, Freedom, Enlightenment.
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