Something to consider about meditation

[Gem]

I don't know if readers understand, or if they find it relevant, but there is only one step at a time, and this discourse will make no sense if not followed in increments, for I don't have a blanket statement to which one may respond, so true, so true, or otherwise, disagree with entirely. If we are observant we can see the mind forming conclusions, assessing and analysing so as to determine an agreement or a disagreement, and this discourse isn't aimed to say true things which can be catgorised in that dualistic form, but rather, is aimed to inspire the observation of that, if that should happen, so you 'know what's happening with yourself'.

Of course, I only know what's happening for me, and I do not know what's happening for you. Hence, each of us is alone with this, and no other person can reveal anything about it. I can say it requires all ones attention, so no part of the person is swept into the thoughtstream, but is wholly aware of thought's movement.

This does not involve the concentration on any object, and it does not involve controlling the mind in any way. It is only the awareness of what is, as it is, in the way you notice it to be. What I find remarkable is, conscious awareness of one's mind's activity is a quietude which many people strive to attain by trying to silence their thoughts. It is quiet in the sense that the mind may move freely in your awareness without disturbing your inner peace. Then, being calm with its movements - one may accept their attention can freely go where interest takes it, and essentially, what occurs to the mind is nothing more than what takes one's interest..


Just seeing it as it comes up, changes, and passes away, is what I mean by saying no part of you is swept into the mindstream, and you wholly observe the mind's movement. The process of mental storms is just the same, and there is no impetus to get rid of it, fix it, heal it and so forth - and if such impetus comes up, we're aware of its arising. The meditation, therefore is prior to any mental actions and reactions, as one is aware of these as they occur.

If you check this, and see for yourself that you are aware of what goes on with you... That's all it is. Not because you did something to make it that way, but because that's is the way nature is.

In the spiritual community there are a lot of different things called meditation, and people undertakes these and call that activity meditation. 'Meditation' as I'm using the word is not that activity, but the awareness of that activity taking place. That's why the meditation can't begin, because it the awareness of all beginnings.