Once we consider “me”, or “my identification” as a human being, we consider our physique. In most individuals, the sense of I is consisting of the bodily kind we see within the mirror and of the ideas we’ve about it.
We consider ourselves as being this or that; as small or tall, good or silly, stunning or ugly. All these {qualifications} are messages from the encompassing atmosphere that we’ve internalised and accepted as true. Our personal pondering might have added to those definitions and we might have come to the conclusion that sure, I’m not clever sufficient, or too tall or not assembly the wonder requirements of this world…
As for the physique, we watch it change always. What as soon as was the type of a small baby grew into an adolescent after which right into a younger grownup. Ultimately the traits of youth reworked into an ageing grownup who watches wrinkles develop on the face and whose physique will get much less agile and extra fragile.
It’s protected to say that every one materials or psychological facets of our life change always. Even seemingly strong objects, like a home or a automotive, are topic to the legislation of change. Sooner or later they’re shiny and new, but just some years later they’ve change into worn and outdated. Ultimately they are going to disappear, similar to an enormous space of woods can vanish to change into an city agglomeration. Even mountain ranges change and finally crumble if we’re there to look at over an extended sufficient time frame.
Until a deeper questioning awakes from inside, we undergo life with our consideration centered completely on these ever-changing varieties and ideas by which our identification is embedded. That is how the overwhelming majority of individuals reside. However there’s an ever rising variety of seekers who’re tuning in to the truth that there’s actually extra to us than a altering physique and a wavering thoughts. They’re starting to discover facets of their being which are past the sensory perceptions. Identical to the sages and saints which have walked this path for millennia, they realise that in the back of all of the showing and disappearing varieties is an area or presence that’s unchanging and ever-present.
If we wish to know this presence in our personal being, we have to reverse the main focus of our consideration. As a substitute of following each thought and each sensory notion, we have to flip our consideration inward by closing our eyes. At first we might discover the numerous ideas and emotions that bounce into our consciousness once we start to meditate. We get to see simply how densely populated our thoughts is… If we select to proceed sitting and watching, we discover that despite the fact that ideas proceed to come back and go, there’s something in us that’s watching and understanding them. This understanding Consciousness is what we wish to take note of. In cultivating consciousness of this Consciousness, we develop the flexibility to know the distinction between the approaching and going of ideas and the ever-present Presence that is aware of them. In selecting to stay with the Presence, because the Presence, we’ve an opportunity to mature the understanding that it’s who we actually are. No kind or thought exists with out or separate from the Presence that’s our True Nature. Realizing this with each fibre of our being is the invaluable reward of Meditation!
If you need to discover the reward of Meditation for your self, you’ll be able to be part of an Online Satsang, or sign-up for a free half hour session to discover the facility of Online Meditation Mentoring with Sampriya. Try Sampriya’s journey schedule within the Fall for Meditation Seminars and Retreats in Switzerland and The Netherlands.
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