Words From The Master: 25 Feb 2008

Towards Meditative Living

(continuation from earlier post)

Transformations you will see

What else will you notice with meditation?

When the first physical symptoms have quietened down, you will begin to see deeper and more lasting transformations in yourself. These are chemical changes, they are irreversible.

Once you have touched the core of meditation, your life can never be the same again.

How will you know if you have really touched meditation?

Look out for these changes in yourself!

Just freedom

A significant change you will experience is a certain sense of freedom.

Why freedom? What has freedom got to do with it?

All our life, we are searching for freedom. Whether we realize it or not, every single one of us is searching for freedom.

Even meditation is nothing but a desperate search for freedom. We have heard that meditation gives freedom, so we turn to meditation in order to be free.

But we misunderstand the word ‘freedom’. What we search for in our ordinary lives is either ‘freedom for’ or ‘freedom from’:

Freedom for doing, having and being all that we wish – freedom to live as we imagine right.

Freedom from all the things that we dread and hate – disease, worry, anger, stress, low self esteem, pain.

(to be continued.)
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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