In the East,
There are several schools of wisdom that consider meditation to be the major tool for inner progress.
The main idea of meditation is to connect us directly to the truth.
The truth has its own frequency.
When one is able to do this,
A beautiful process of downloading immediately begins to take place.
The wisdom of nature mysteriously begins to flow in.
It enters deep into your system and collects in your body's cells.
Sitting in union with Mother Nature leads us to that place.
It is like a melting point.
It is a place that is beyond words.
It is a place where the drop,
The hieroglyph for Tao,
Describes something like,
Man and path become one.
This hidden ability is waiting to be rediscovered in all of us.
This melting process is done without words.
Though in the beginning,
One may need words to bypass the thinking mind.
Articles,
Explanations,
And meditation techniques that use words can all help to open a door in this process.
In Chinese medicine,
It is often said that one can fight fire with fire.
Sometimes it takes one thorn to remove another.
There is a crow,
A crow of thoughts that lives inside our heads.
This bird is always trying to distract us.
It constantly creates walls of opinions,
Judgments,
Doubts,
Criticism,
And any other obstacle that we could possibly imagine.
It is as if we have an inner radio inside our head and the only newscaster is our crow.
It's the noisy crow who describes and interprets everything that happens in our world.
In this way,
Reality is always mediated and covered up through the crow's explaining voice.
The first stage in meditation is to learn that it is possible to switch channels.
Our inner radio can receive much more than this nonstop chatter channel.
The second stage is to actually find the gaps that exist between the thoughts and to enlarge them.
There is great magic there.
We are all familiar with two kinds of consciousness,
Thinking and sleeping.
In meditation,
We practice a third kind,
Which is neither thinking nor sleeping.
Try to practice it once or twice a day,
Even if each time it is only for a short while.
The third stage is the battle with your crow.
Your noisy bird will do everything to prevent you from sitting and meditating.
Your mind wants to be in control.
It is restless and will try to divert you from practice.
It will constantly bring you back into thinking and theory.
It can and might also bring coughs,
Itches,
Pains,
Anxieties.
It will do anything to distract you from silent sitting.
It will do everything to prevent you from realizing that you can do without it.
The fourth stage happens after you have practiced meditation for some time.
One day you realize that there are many types of you.
You with your parents,
You at work,
You at home,
You in the supermarket.
Many different manifestations of what seems to be the same you.
But the you that you love the most is the you while sitting in meditation.
The deeper you that is beyond everyday thoughts and feelings.
Awakening is the fifth stage.
It is the final waking up from the hypnotic state where we have been caught for such a long time.
It is the liberation from the spellbinding and noisy crow from its mental fog and its gray sunglasses.
It is the silence that allows us to be open to the truth.
It is reality itself.
Awakening is a happy and natural feeling.
It is like waking up on a bright and sunny morning with nothing to worry about.
This is Zen,
Tao,
The path of clear vision,
The journey and the quest.
It will take you to the limits of your mind and then a little further.
Meditation will teach you that truth is so vast it cannot be contained in the mind.
The teacher should lead you to a gap in your mind and gently push you out or pull you in if you like.
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