On Meditation

It is difficult for most of people to do meditation because it is simply hard for them to just sit there and observe the voice in their head. Have you ever even thought of the voice in your head as something separate from you? When you are moving around, when you are occupied with something or engaged with other people, you won’t even notice that in fact you let go off nervous energy. Only if you sit there for 20 minutes or so do you realize how much nervous energy there is inside of you bubbling to the surface. Your mind is racing like a lunatic jumping from issue to issue in an almost random way. Sometimes you observe people babbling to themselves on the street. That is the restless mind in action at an even more advanced stage. You aren't much different. You are driven by your mind, by this voice in your head, and you are not even aware of it. Only meditation can help with this problem. When you are occupied with something, you mistake this voice in your head as your guide. When you sit during meditation, you realize that this voice is in fact nothing but noise.

Observing your thoughts gives you an opportunity to understand that you are not your mind. With this realization you can create a space between you and the voice in your head even when you are not meditating. All our craziness comes from the untamed mind. Instead of using our mind as a tool to function in your daily life and to reflect on God, we are instead driven around by your thoughts like a monkey. Regular meditation gives us a chance to create that space between our True Selves and our mind. We suddenly experience who we truly are.

While meditation is hard in the beginning, if you make it a routine, slowly, you can feel a different energy penetrating you. It has a higher vibration, it calms you down and infuses you with peace and joy. When you connect with this energy, observing the signs of the Tao will come natural to you. Without the distracting noise in your head you will be one with your environment. It is like you have lived in a dark cave before and suddenly light is showered all over you.

The other important function of meditation is to become conscious of your spiritual energy. Whenever you interact with different people, whenever you go to a new environment are participate in some activities, your energy vibration changes. All these places and things all carry their own energy vibration, but this fact is very hard to pick up. Still, when you get in touch with these people and places your energy resonances with them. You observe that your mood changes, but you mostly cannot tell why.

Meditation is like a cleaning process. It gives you a time and space to be mindful of your energy vibrations and all the foreign idisappear disappear like smoke. When this happens you suddenly feel so light! How blessed you are at this moment; you are suddenly in contact with your True Self. When you truly know yourself, it is just like being in touch with your inner GPS. You naturally know where you want to go and what you want to do and you are suddenly in touch with the only emotion worth living for, pure love.

People run around to solve their problems and look for happiness. Happiness and guidance is just inside you. Meditation provides you with an easy solution. All you need to do is just sit there and watch. Why don’t you give it a try?

By Su Zhen