Meditation Practice

If spiritual awakening is our purpose/intent during meditation practice, whatever arises (sensations, emotions, light or sound perceptions), should be transcended. These phenomena can be used as opportunities for further opening in us, when perceived. Otherwise, we may become so fascinated with what is perceived that meditation practice is reduced to mental playtime. We are then caught up in self-distraction or avoidance of super-conscious realization.

Many meditate for the stress reduction benefits, in our culture and a few meditate regularly for the purpose of awakening and actualizing innate spirituality.

If we are meditating, studying and engaging in other spiritual systems of practice, it is well to remember our real status. One contemporary spiritual teacher often states: “We are not human beings aspiring to spiritual status. We are spiritual beings temporarily identified and involved with the human condition.”

Meditation practice is intended to serve as a way by which the individual can awaken to her/his real status and to live this fullness of being, here-now in this and all worlds. Be single minded and vitally alert in meditation practice, being willing to open beyond whatever arises, to rest content as spirit. Following practice, rest content as spirit, functioning and experiencing through mind and matter.