Introduction To True Meditation

Hello there,

Surya Chittar here.

Want to say a few words about what I often call true meditation which I believe is.

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The purest form of meditation.

One of my teachers said to a student once,

Because the student asked her,

She said,

I'd like to go off with another teacher and learn loving-kindness meditation.

And the teacher said,

Fine.

Go do it,

But remember one thing,

And one thing only.

Do not try to attain anything.

And I thought that was really beautifully put.

No attainment is necessary.

But we find that hard to digest.

So true meditation.

Is simply being with the actuality of your present moment experience.

Because what do we normally do?

We normally go into mind.

The mind presents a picture,

A story of what you are.

What was.

What it wasn't!

It's not fussy!

A picture of the future,

A picture of your true self,

Or a a picture of happiness or enlightenment or awakening.

The mind has a picture.

Of it.

And so what do we do?

We go chasing that picture.

And true meditation is saying no,

Don't do that.

You'll spend 20,

30,

40 years and you won't get it.

It's just an idea.

But we're so drunk on mind,

We are so.

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Enamored and intoxicated with thinking.

That we've forgotten that Here is what we're looking for.

What is doing the looking is what you're looking for.

So we come back here to our present moment experience.

Just now,

Just go quiet,

Just.

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Notice the sounds.

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Or the silence.

Notice the contact with the chair.

Notice the thoughts.

If you get hooked into them,

Just unhook,

Come back.

To what's actually happening.

This is your life.

This storytelling.

The story is not your life.

It's not the narrative.

It's beautiful and simple.

And that's what I share with people.

Thank you.

Bye-bye.