Meditation

Lobsang Rampa habla sobre la meditación, en un video de aproximadamente media hora. También algo sobre la meditación y el ocultismo, y un video de solo 10 minutos en donde varios famosos (Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres, Jim Carrey, etc.) opinan sobre la meditación. En vocabulario: navel, soothe away, tendrils, regress

Many major traditions in which meditation is practiced, such as Buddhism and Hinduism, advise members not to consume intoxicants…

Meditation is a spiritual attitude… is a spiritual discipline which enables one to put one´s mind in good health…

… if one meditates in a certain way one can become aware all there is to know about a certain thing…

Meditation is a practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state.

Meditation is under research to define its possible health (psychological, neurological, and cardiovascular) and other effects.

Movements which use magic, such as Wicca, Thelema, Neopaganism, and occultism, often require their adherents to meditate as a preliminary to the magical work.

Many major traditions in which meditation is practiced, such as Buddhism and Hinduism, advise members not to consume intoxicants, while others, such as the Rastafarian movements and Native American Church, view drugs as integral to their religious lifestyle.

Dalai Lama

Meditation (1969)

What do you think when you hear that word meditation? Do you think of some poor scantily clad man sitting in a strange, strange attitude, contemplating his navel?

The dictionary on the subject of meditate says to plan mentally, to design, to exercise the mind in contemplation. Well, even the dictionary can be wrong, you know, because actually contemplation comes after meditation.

When you have meditated and got as much information as you can from that meditation, then you contemplate the matter which you have just discovered. But meditation is more than a physical attitude. It´s more than sitting in some contorted posture… Meditation is a spiritual attitude, a spiritual discipline, a spiritual exercise.

But wait, before you start, why do you want to meditate? What is your real purpose in meditation? Unless you have a sincere purpose, a sincere interest, you may find it difficult to attain the right degree of meditation.

Correct meditation, then, is a spiritual discipline which enables one to put one´s mind in good health and if you can meditate correctly then you´ll have no mental illness, no mental afflictions.

Meditation will give you tranquility, inner peace, composure.

Meditation can soothe away the thoughts that plague and trouble one´s mind.

Another aspect of meditation is that if one meditates in a certain way one can become aware all there is to know about a certain thing. Look at a flower, take it in your hand, meditate upon it. Look at the flower, look at the petals, look at the inner parts of the flower. See how it attaches to the stem. See further. Let the matter regress. See the bud and before the bud. See the stem and the main stem go down and see the roots. See the tendrils stretching out into the air sucking nourishment from the soil. Go further; you can see the seed which has formed that plant. Further, further back you see the seed that formed the plant before. One can meditate and visualize the parent plant and the grandparent plant, but be sure and do not confuse meditation with concentration because in meditation one does not concentrate.

Perhaps at this stage I should clarify matters. I say meditate upon this. Meditate upon that and you could answer quite reasonably but how can I meditate? Using the word meditate doesn´t explain how to go about a thing. All right, let´s see what we can do together, shall we? Look at this rose. It is in flower. Look at the petals. Examine it carefully. Do you see what appear to be veins? What appears to be arteries, even that little capillary tubes which take the nourishment to the furthest part of each and every petals, each and every branch. Look further, look deeper, that your conscious awareness subside. Let you subconscious awareness arise and then you inner vision will perceive… (Meditation, 1969, Lobsang Rampa. Until 6, 31 minutes.)

Vocabulario

navel: belly button, tummy button, umbilicus.

soothe away: to remove a pain or an unpleasant feeling.

The pain can be soothed away with massage.

regress: revert, subside, decline.

They would not regress to pre-technological tribalism.

tendrils: a slender threadlike appendage of a climbing plant, often growing in a spiral form, that stretches out and twines round any suitable support.

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