Meditation provides a deeper appreciation
of the inter-relatedness of all things
and the part each person plays.
The simple rules of this game are honesty
with yourself about where you are in your life
and learning to listen to hear how it is.
Meditation is a way of listening more deeply,
so you hear from a deeper space, exactly how it is.
Meditation will help you quiet your mind,
enhance your ability to be insightful and understanding
and give you a sense of inner peace.
If you meditate regularly, even when you don’t feel like it,
If you meditate regularly, even when you don’t feel like it,
you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see
how your thoughts impose limits on you.
Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature.
When I asked Maharajji how to meditate, he said,
When I asked Maharajji how to meditate, he said,
“Meditate like Christ.”
I said, “Maharajji, how did Christ meditate?”
He became very quiet and closed his eyes.
After a few minutes,
he had a blissful expression on his face
and a tear trickled down his cheek.
He opened his eyes and said,
“He lost himself in Love.”
Try the meditation of losing yourself in love….
~ Ram Dass