Ask The Master: 02 Feb 2008

How many hours should I meditate everyday?

There is no question of how many hours!

As I said, meditation is not something that can be added on to your life. It is like asking, How often should I breathe every day?

You cannot say, This many hours every day I will be meditative, and the rest of the day I will continue doing whatever I am doing now!

Meditation requires a tremendous change inside you. Meditation is a complete transformation of your entire way of life. The seed is already there inside you, but for the tree to grow and blossom, the seed first has to rupture!

You have to allow yourself to rupture! When you start practicing meditation sincerely, this will happen on its own. But the willingness to rupture, to be completely transformed, has to be there inside you.

Meditation is nothing short of rebirth! You have to possess the courage to face death -- your own death! -- and to be reborn as someone entirely new.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: "Meditation is for You" -- an introduction to the science and art of meditation