Meditation in Amsterdam - Meditation is not a doing
During my meditation sessions in Amsterdam, I have to spend time emphasising a new way of approaching life, if the practice is to be successful.
If we look a the way of thinking and acting that characterises modern society, we can see a clear drive towards achievement, improvement, faster, better, more. The entire edifice of our modern comforts is built on the idea that things are not good enough the way they are, and someone needs to do something about it. Not only that, but that someone needs to do it better every time, and so it goes.
This model of operating has procured incredible technology and comfort, but when it comes to meditation is not likely to get us very far. You see there is the Yin, and the Yan and all the points in the previous paragraph describe the Yan, the active positive principle of life. However meditation is in its very nature a Yin.
It is so Yin that we can talk about it as a "being" or an "allowing to be" as opposed to a "doing". It is the ultimate non-doing and how on earth can you get good at that? If you're trying to achieve it, it will forever elude you.
Moreover you're fighting insurmountable odds when you try to meditate by forcefully quieting your mind. Do you know how much momentum the mind carries? It is the most complex system known to date, with more neural connections than the number of atoms in the known universe! You think you can fight against that with some cleverness and force of will? Good luck.
The meditative approach that succeeds is the one that doesn't try to be clever or outsmart the mind. It is rather the one that uses that same vast intelligence that created the mind in the first place. That intelligence is so vast that our human cleverness is dwarfed in comparison. And so the principle behind a successful meditation is to be diligent in practicing the fundamentals of the techniques (those are in fact doings), and let the result follow of its own accord.
When meditative techniques are used consistently, correctly and diligently, meditation will arise in you as a natural consequence. It cannot be otherwise. You have created neural pathways that weren't there before and this begins to transform you in noticeable ways. After some time, the attitudes that you exercise during your practice begin to permeate the rest of your life. Your skills become traits and you are no longer someone who does meditation, you are meditative.
This is the objective of the practice of Meditation in Amsterdam, and having gotten the knack for it you will never let it go. It is the foundation of how you operate in the world because its integral, connective and fulfilling.
Namaste
Pablo Bran
www.meditationinamsterdam.com
If we look a the way of thinking and acting that characterises modern society, we can see a clear drive towards achievement, improvement, faster, better, more. The entire edifice of our modern comforts is built on the idea that things are not good enough the way they are, and someone needs to do something about it. Not only that, but that someone needs to do it better every time, and so it goes.
This model of operating has procured incredible technology and comfort, but when it comes to meditation is not likely to get us very far. You see there is the Yin, and the Yan and all the points in the previous paragraph describe the Yan, the active positive principle of life. However meditation is in its very nature a Yin.
It is so Yin that we can talk about it as a "being" or an "allowing to be" as opposed to a "doing". It is the ultimate non-doing and how on earth can you get good at that? If you're trying to achieve it, it will forever elude you.
Moreover you're fighting insurmountable odds when you try to meditate by forcefully quieting your mind. Do you know how much momentum the mind carries? It is the most complex system known to date, with more neural connections than the number of atoms in the known universe! You think you can fight against that with some cleverness and force of will? Good luck.
The meditative approach that succeeds is the one that doesn't try to be clever or outsmart the mind. It is rather the one that uses that same vast intelligence that created the mind in the first place. That intelligence is so vast that our human cleverness is dwarfed in comparison. And so the principle behind a successful meditation is to be diligent in practicing the fundamentals of the techniques (those are in fact doings), and let the result follow of its own accord.
When meditative techniques are used consistently, correctly and diligently, meditation will arise in you as a natural consequence. It cannot be otherwise. You have created neural pathways that weren't there before and this begins to transform you in noticeable ways. After some time, the attitudes that you exercise during your practice begin to permeate the rest of your life. Your skills become traits and you are no longer someone who does meditation, you are meditative.
This is the objective of the practice of Meditation in Amsterdam, and having gotten the knack for it you will never let it go. It is the foundation of how you operate in the world because its integral, connective and fulfilling.
Namaste
Pablo Bran
www.meditationinamsterdam.com
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