Hi,
This is Dhyans here and you'll be tuning into a unique meditation session recorded live with my meditators in Switzerland,
Where for the first 15 minutes you'll listen to the theme of the session which will bring your mind,
Your heart and your energies together into a meditative state.
Then I'll guide you to go deep in a 30-minute meditation experience.
I wish you all the love,
Peace,
Happiness and awareness in life.
A very warm welcome to all of you in this meditation session with me,
Dhyansai.
Today I'm going to tell you something that you already know,
That you're mad.
You all are mad in some or the other way.
I'm mad,
You're mad,
The person on the right to you,
On the left to you,
Behind you,
In front of you,
Everywhere.
You're all mad in some or the other way.
Before we confront our madness and see how we can put that madness to some rest,
Listen to this one incident.
There were three people,
A Cuban,
A Russian and an alien.
They were in a train going somewhere,
Sitting on one bench.
The Cuban pulled out a cigar from his pocket,
Lit it up,
Took a puff,
Offered it to the passengers that were sitting in front of him.
They all,
Out of politeness,
Refused.
So he took the cigar,
Threw it out of the window.
Everyone got mad.
They said,
Hey,
Are you mad?
Why are you throwing such an expensive cigar out of the window?
The Cuban said,
You know,
We have a lot of them in Cuba,
They're dirt cheap.
So it's okay.
Everyone said,
Okay,
Fine.
Few minutes later,
The Russian,
He pulled out a bottle of vodka out of his bag,
Poured himself a shot,
Drank a shot,
Offered a shot to other people.
Again,
All of the passengers,
They refused out of politeness.
So he took the whole bottle of vodka,
Threw it out of the window.
Again,
Everyone got mad.
They said,
Why are you throwing such an expensive bottle out of the window?
He said,
Yeah,
We have lots of vodka in Russia.
It's dirt cheap.
This third alien,
He was trying to observe what is happening,
How these humans are behaving.
So he made an understanding.
He pulled off his mask,
Took the peaceful part of his brain out,
Threw it out of the window and said,
Yes,
Now I'm also mad.
We are all mad.
Somewhat we are also like this because everyone is mad.
We also took the peaceful part out of our mind,
Out of our being and threw it out.
And we are here all mad in this world,
Lesser or more,
We are all mad.
Why don't we realize it?
If it was the case that one or a few people are mad,
Everyone else is sane,
Everyone else is fine,
Then you could recognize that I'm mad or somebody else is mad.
That would be a possibility.
But when everyone is mad,
What to do?
If you look at even the definition of what is mad from science,
Science says to be mad is to be abnormal.
There's no objective definition of what is madness,
Who's mad.
It's just relative.
If you are abnormal,
Then you're mad.
But when everybody is mad,
How do you,
What is the reference point?
How do you judge whether you are mad or not mad?
What is this madness that I'm talking about?
I think you all know,
Somewhere deep down,
We all know what is this madness.
If you just observe your own mind for a few minutes,
Observe your thoughts,
Observe your emotions,
Observe yourself honestly,
And really reflect on it honestly,
You will see that we are all somewhat mad.
In spiritual terms,
You would say that when you're not rooted in the truth,
When you are disconnected from life,
When you've gone,
When you've carried away yourself with the mind so much so that there is no coming back,
You're on the trip of illusion so much so that there is no connect to the truth,
There's no connect to life anymore,
That is what is madness in spiritual terms.
What are our options then?
If that's the case,
What to do?
Option number one,
Let the show continue.
Let the show,
Let the madness continue and hope that one day everyone becomes sane,
Everyone becomes once again healthy and we are again also,
All of us are sane once again and until then the mad show continues forever and ever and ever.
There were once two cows,
We were grazing in a field,
One of them said to the other,
Hey you know this mad cow disease that is spreading wildly across these grasslands,
The other cow was completely relaxed,
Chewing his grass,
Not saying anything.
Then the first cow said,
Hey you know this mad cow disease,
It's everywhere.
The second cow said,
She finished her chew and then she said,
You know I don't care about this mad cow disease because I'm a horse.
That's how we have continued the mad show,
We don't know who we are but we are just continuing the mad show.
That's option number one,
That's fine,
No it doesn't hurt because everyone else is mad.
And the option number two is to create a reference point in us where we can see our madness,
Where we can see this insanity that we carry in us so that we can fix it.
Unless we see it,
We cannot fix it.
There is one point in our daily life,
Every day,
That shows us our madness.
We all have this one point in our life,
Every day,
Every day there is an opportunity.
When we wake up in the morning,
Just before we get up and we have come out of a very deep restful sleep,
In that phase,
In that transition of when we have just come out of a very restful state,
Very restful sleep and have not yet decided to get up or are not getting caught up in dreams,
In that moment,
In that moment of silence,
The whole life flashes in front of us where we see the madness,
Where we see what we are doing every day.
But this moment is so short-lived because we have to get up and get going so we never pay attention to it.
We never let that moment become a contemplation.
If that moment,
That very first moment when you get up,
If you give yourself time,
If you give yourself just five minutes of contemplating without thinking about your plans,
What you have to do during the day,
What happened yesterday,
Just in those five minutes of contemplation,
When your mind is not in the way,
It's at rest and you are completely aware.
In those moments,
You can see your madness for the life and it can be very transformative if you give even five minutes during the day.
If not,
Then the way is in meditation.
In meditation arises this silence,
This reference point in us from where we can once again remain connected to the truth,
See our madness while going through daily life,
Going through different things,
See and not get carried away with it.
And then there is a way to fix it,
To become even more silent.
For today's meditation session,
I have a very simple mantra to address this madness.
It's called Om Shanti,
Shanti,
Shanti.
You must have heard this word Om so many times in different contexts,
From purely getting access to peace to very spiritual,
Esoteric descriptions of it,
Even religious descriptions of it.
For us,
What Om means as a meditator is very simple.
It is a neutralizer to all the madness that we have in our head,
To all the thoughts,
All this uncontrolled inner articulation that is all the time going on in our head.
Because if you break down this inner articulation that is all going on uncontrolled in our head,
This is nothing but words in any language and if you break down those words,
It sounds.
And fundamentally,
In any language,
There are only three primary sounds.
Ah,
O,
Ma.
These are the three primary fundamental sounds out of which if you combine them,
Comes out a word Om or a sound of Om.
When you utter this sound of Om,
When you chant this sound of Om,
What happens is all the energy behind all these thoughts,
These uncontrolled impressions,
These uncontrolled patterns that go on in your mind,
They come to rest and the energy is absorbed by these three sounds.
And for a moment,
A silence is created for you.
For a moment,
You don't go into this madness of continuously thinking and emoting all the time.
This is a moment to absorb the silence,
The silence that is created out of the chant Om.
How to absorb the silence?
One word repeated three times Shanti,
Shanti,
Shanti.
Shanti means peace.
Shanti means silence.
It doesn't have any super specific meaning.
All it serves is when you utter the word Shanti,
It indicates that now you should absorb this peace,
The silence in your body,
In your mind,
In your spirit,
Core,
Inner being,
Whatever you want to call that.
So very briefly how we are going to do this meditation.
For the first three to five minutes,
We are going to simply be an observer of our own mind.
We're going to observe our mind and witness,
Acknowledge,
Confront whatever is going on in our mind.
It could be lots of thoughts.
It could be work related things,
Personal things,
Plans,
Ideas,
Whatever it is.
Don't participate.
Don't judge.
Don't get frustrated.
Just sit silently and witness and observe whatever is going on in your mind for three to five minutes to confront this madness that we all carry in us.
Then for the next 10 minutes,
We're going to chant this Om Shanti,
Shanti,
Shanti as a mantra where with every breath you will repeat with me,
Om.
And when I say Shanti,
You can remain quiet and focus on yourself.
With every Shanti,
You will bring your awareness to your body,
To your mind,
To your soul and let that settle,
Let that become silent.
With the first,
When I say Shanti,
You will bring your awareness to your body.
The second time I say Shanti,
You will bring your awareness to your mind and let it rest.
And the third time when I say Shanti,
You will completely let go in silence and let your spirit core,
Whatever you refer as your deepest center also come to full stop,
Full rest.
We'll do this for 10 minutes so that you are completely immersed in deep silence with awareness.
When that has happened would be the third stage for this meditation,
Which is to do nothing,
Which is to stop all acts and simply sit in silence with awareness without a word,
Without an act,
Without a thought.
Just sit in silence,
Close your eyes and let go in silence as deep as you can.
Simple three steps.
First step,
Observing for five minutes your own mind.
The next step is 10 minutes of chanting with me,
Om.
And the third step is to let go and be in silence as long as you like.
With that,
I invite you to sit in a posture which is comfortable for you for the next 20 to 30 minutes.
If it's sitting with your legs up,
With your knees bent,
That's also fine or a cross legged posture with your hands in your lap or on your thighs as you like.
If you feel like that you would not be able to sit for the next 20 to 30 minutes like this,
Please sit next to the wall,
Let your back rest next to the wall.
It is important that your body is at rest so that you can let go,
So that you can be in silence without disturbing yourself,
Without disturbing everyone else.
Close your eyes.
Your back straight.
Eyes down.
Head straight.
Release relaxed and a gentle smile on your face.
Take a nice deep breath.
Inhale from the nose.
And exhale from the nose.
Let your breath settle.
Your awareness turning inwards.
For the next minutes simply observe your mind.
Silently witnessing your thoughts and everything else that arises in your mind.
Now open your mind.
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Observe your mind.
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Draw all your attention towards your mind.
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Try to change anything.
Simply observe your mind.
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Thoughts arise.
They fall back.
Simply observe your mind.
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Let your mind do whatever it does.
You remain silent and aware.
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Let go in the silence.
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