Meditation is quite a subjective topic. Everyone’s approach towards meditation, and their understanding about it, the idea of meditation and the process that each may follow may be different. Some may focus on chanting a mantra, some may focus on breathing, some may require a guided meditation – they may opt to use a recording or an app, for some others meditation may mean sitting down and letting go of their own thoughts – to let them pass by us as they come without any indulgence. For some meditation might be a slotted time period, for others it can be done anytime – during their morning walk or while having a cup of coffee, in a meeting room or on a busy bazaar street. Some may look at it as an exercise and some as a way of life. Some may do it to ease their stress, some for health benefits, some for mental clarity, some for inner peace and some for simply being and experiencing life as is.
Which of this method to meditate right? There isn’t absolutely one way to define meditation. In fact, the definition of meditation for an individual itself is fluid, and may alter with time and their personal state of being. However, the purpose of meditation is to experience, to touch an inner space, to experience nothingness. There are moments during meditating when one experiences – even for a few fleeting moments – a space where one’s identity dissolves, there isn’t ‘I’ any longer. It’s an inner experience and not a concept, so it’s perhaps difficult to explain in words.
There are moments during meditating when one experiences… …a space where one’s identity dissolves, there isn’t ‘I’ any longer. It’s an inner experience and not a concept…
Meditation has many facets to it, and it can be done in innumerable ways – from peeling potatoes to doing origami or simply sitting down – to touch the meditative space within us, all it takes is our total involvement without indulgence. And in doing so, we lose ourselves – our identity.
In its core, the purpose of meditation is to touch this empty space. There isn’t one ‘how to meditate?’ when it comes to meditation, but the experience is certainly of lightness.
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