While I read the book on Meditation for Dummies, i got a couple of ideas clarified and I would like to share it with you.
Dharana is concentration or focus on a single object. I have found that using the metaphor of training a puppy helps. The mind keeps wandering but one just has to bring it back, however far it has wandered off. With every bringing back, the resistance to meditation decreases and one gets lengtheir and more frequent periods of meditation.
Dhyana can be called as receptive-awareness. Only a recptive mind can absorb the efforts of Dharana. When one is asked to open, there is immediately the fear of vulnerability. But then, when one practises anywhere between 20-120 minutes of spirituality like meditation, the rest of the day will more or less be an outcome of what was practised as an exercise. This is the Law of Attraction. You don't even need to understand abstract ideas like these when you can understand that a 5 minutes of drama rehearsal breaks the ice among the different actors. Since one has practised only what's beneficial, one can feel safe about being receptive to the experiences one comes across everyday. The other thing about Dhyana, which is, awareness, can be understood this way...as soon as one starts meditating, one is no more driven by the current of one's life atleast during the meditative period. So instead of being an actor or a player in one's own life, one becomes an audience or spectator. Such a change brings about a different viewpoint about one's own life script or story or reality. This leads to insight.
The paradox of Samadhi is that it is attained fastest when it is not aspired for. When one has made a lot of spiritual progress and is on the verge of nirvana or liberation or moksha or salvation or whatever name one gives it, the natural tendency is to leap over the last step anxiously. This results in even pleading for one's own cause forgetting for a moment that all that is required is to just carry on from 99th step to 100th step like how one stepped from 1st to 2nd or from 76th to 77th. Infact, asking for such a wish cannot liberate but only bind because it is by the absense of selfishness that one steps forward. So, what can one feel good about at this stage of waiting? One can become aware that one's normal way of living as expected discharging the responsibilities is satisfying others and this brings in some sortof fulfilment. Over time, one automatically gets carried into the transcendent state.
That's all, folks. I have written a lot on spirituality in my blogs. there is nothing more to add on spirituality that I know of after this which matters. Some of you might have seen my older blogs where I lived terrible life. I have also posted personal stories about my life. I have also posted many things over twitter, facebook, answer websites and forums. My understanding have not been always clear but now I can say that I have told you everything I know about life without falsifying or hiding anything. Maybe it's not in a readable format. Maybe you can use them as pointers or guide. But please go to a proper Guru to understand how to practise it because I'm really not a Guru material. All the best.
I will ofcourse continue posting my personal tidbits. Thanks for reading this.
Dharana is concentration or focus on a single object. I have found that using the metaphor of training a puppy helps. The mind keeps wandering but one just has to bring it back, however far it has wandered off. With every bringing back, the resistance to meditation decreases and one gets lengtheir and more frequent periods of meditation.
Dhyana can be called as receptive-awareness. Only a recptive mind can absorb the efforts of Dharana. When one is asked to open, there is immediately the fear of vulnerability. But then, when one practises anywhere between 20-120 minutes of spirituality like meditation, the rest of the day will more or less be an outcome of what was practised as an exercise. This is the Law of Attraction. You don't even need to understand abstract ideas like these when you can understand that a 5 minutes of drama rehearsal breaks the ice among the different actors. Since one has practised only what's beneficial, one can feel safe about being receptive to the experiences one comes across everyday. The other thing about Dhyana, which is, awareness, can be understood this way...as soon as one starts meditating, one is no more driven by the current of one's life atleast during the meditative period. So instead of being an actor or a player in one's own life, one becomes an audience or spectator. Such a change brings about a different viewpoint about one's own life script or story or reality. This leads to insight.
The paradox of Samadhi is that it is attained fastest when it is not aspired for. When one has made a lot of spiritual progress and is on the verge of nirvana or liberation or moksha or salvation or whatever name one gives it, the natural tendency is to leap over the last step anxiously. This results in even pleading for one's own cause forgetting for a moment that all that is required is to just carry on from 99th step to 100th step like how one stepped from 1st to 2nd or from 76th to 77th. Infact, asking for such a wish cannot liberate but only bind because it is by the absense of selfishness that one steps forward. So, what can one feel good about at this stage of waiting? One can become aware that one's normal way of living as expected discharging the responsibilities is satisfying others and this brings in some sortof fulfilment. Over time, one automatically gets carried into the transcendent state.
That's all, folks. I have written a lot on spirituality in my blogs. there is nothing more to add on spirituality that I know of after this which matters. Some of you might have seen my older blogs where I lived terrible life. I have also posted personal stories about my life. I have also posted many things over twitter, facebook, answer websites and forums. My understanding have not been always clear but now I can say that I have told you everything I know about life without falsifying or hiding anything. Maybe it's not in a readable format. Maybe you can use them as pointers or guide. But please go to a proper Guru to understand how to practise it because I'm really not a Guru material. All the best.
I will ofcourse continue posting my personal tidbits. Thanks for reading this.
