Meditation for inner transformation

  • 2013

Let's not forget the maxim: Meditation teaches us to meditate. Regular practice is what facilitates it and opens a clear path to intense and clear consciousness. Ramiro Calle gives us a clear and precise lesson of what it means to meditate.

Dyana is the term written for meditation. Meditation is a misleading and confusing translation of dyana . And it tends to confuse because many people give it the connotation of reflection or analysis. Although there are certain forms of analytical meditation, meditation is precisely to be beyond the mass of concepts that condition our mind . Meditation is to be attentive and serene, alert and equitable.That is the meditative attitude. Whenever the mind remains attentive and serene, it is in meditation, although the person is not exercising in the meditation sitting at that time.

There are many kinds of meditation, but meditation is one: to meditate is to realize from the mind in its purity; it is to capture with insight from the silent mind. The two aspects of meditation must be cultivated : as a training technique and as a vital attitude. We meditate as a training technique to be able to keep the mind with a meditative attitude at all times and circumstances.

We meditate to wake up; to put a term to the psychological dream and discover a higher dimension of consciousness, where there are answers without words, solutions without concepts. We meditate to be, to be in ourselves, so that the seed of wisdom can germinate, to curb and dominate the egocentric tendencies and to be able to hear the voice of the inner teacher.

Art of living

Knowledge is information and data accumulation and does not transform. Meditation brings transformative wisdom. Sitting meditation is essential, but you have to transfer its fruits to everyday life. Through meditation, transformative and illuminating factors such as conscious effort, vigilant attention, serenity, equanimity, lucidity and compassion are activated, and they must be taken to everyday life, since We will endorse all of this. Meditation is being here and now, and it becomes a vital attitude, an existential technique, a way of being and proceeding, a true art of living.

To meditate is to maintain receptive consciousness, remain harmonious and fluid, not lose equanimity and be vigilant about what we think, say or do. We become more and more aware and through sitting meditation we learn to maintain the meditative attitude in everyday life, knowing how to proceed as circumstances require, with attention and calm. Thus we unmask self-deception and the ego becomes a useful official, but not a tyrant.

Meditation is weakening and finally eliminating the harmful impressions of the unconscious, that so much freedom rob us and condition us so much. Automatic thinking is slowed and there is an approach to the still or non-minded mind. We begin to see things as they are and not as we want or fear them to be, and so the correct and liberating understandings develop. With the wisdom and energy we rescue through sitting meditation, we can fit in and face the situations that life presents us with more equanimously and shrewdly. If samsara (the phenomenal) is above all in the mind, in the mind you have to conquer it and go beyond the illusory to connect with the Real.

Each person will find their most appropriate meditative method, but everyone should bring the results of meditation to everyday life and turn life itself into a challenge and a teacher. Let each one find the technique that is most helpful, but meditation as a technique of life is the same for everyone. May the following text of Yoga Vashistha serve as motivation and inspiration :

“Go and dive into the serene sea of ​​spiritual loneliness and wash your soul with the nectar of ambrosiac meditation. Immerse yourself in the depth of Unity and stay away from the salty waves of duality and the brackish waters of diversity. ”

Meditation for inner transformation

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