Primer on Meditation
(before meditation techniques)

Meditation is required because we are not living in totality. Meditation means consciously training oneself to live totally till it (total living) becomes a spontaneity. Total living means living in absolute present without any emotional strings attached to the past or to the future.

Why should one live totally, or why should why should one live in the present? Because it is extremely enjoyable and peaceful in perception, exact as well as excellent in action, and full of unimaginable energy, like a laser beam, in effect.

Why do we not live in the present? Because of our attachment to the past and to the future. Future is just an imaginative projection of the past memory.

The strings of memory and imagination are too tempting. But we do not live totally in the past or in the future as well, like one temporarily does in deja-vu, i.e., reliving past in its totality. Again, even a permanent deja-vu will severe our connection with the immediate requirements of the present, and we shall either get annihilated or disoriented like a mad man does.

So, one cannot ignore the present for long at any cost. What we really do is we partially live in all the three domains of time (past, future, and present) in a disarrayed way. Actually they are not three, they are only two domains. The third—present—is not the domain of time, rather it is a state of timelessness. And time is what mind is, mind being the dynamic function of awareness projected onto the canvass of time through brain. If mind is not, time is not. They are the two sides of the same coin.

So, the past and the future are the domains of the mind. Breaking the strings with the past and the future, and living in the present means stopping the mind so that the brain may work anew every moment with the full energy and efficiency of awareness using the past knowledge only when it is required technically without any emotional strings attached.

Psychology deals with the dynamics of mind.

Meditation aims at stopping the mind altogether until it is required technically. Meditation starts where psychology ends. How can this be done? There are more than one ways to achieve this end. One way may suit one person but not the other. It is simply choosing the right way for the right person that makes the difference and ensures success to the end. Different ways are named as different meditations as listed in meditation techniques page. We add a new technique every week so do not forget to bookmark the page.