How To Meditate – Meditation Techniques – What Is True Meditation?
WITNESS CONSCIOUSNESS CENTERING
How often during your day is your mind silent?
Is your mind free of anxiety, frustration and worry? Or have you come to accept that these are just a normal part of life?
How often do you experience Love and Joy in such a way that your mind becomes so quiet that you are left in a state of Awe?
Inside you there is an ocean of happiness, an ocean of joy. To become established in that ocean, to swim in it, that is Meditation. Here our focus is learning how to meditate on that ocean of peace. It is beyond the mind and beyond the senses.
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True Meditation
There are many ‘meditation techniques’ touted every where. True meditation is that which takes you beyond the mind and beyond the senses, to experience the highest power, the Self. This is the sacred space of the Witness where there is nothing but Joy, Peace and Supreme Love. Indeed, what makes meditation true is that it has nothing to do with vision boards. True meditation has nothing to do with any kind of rumination or reverie on people, places and things. True meditation delivers you to a state of Grace in which, over time, you become happy for no good reason. This is the greatest of meditation techniques. You experience a state of indescribable Joy, regardless of circumstances. You rest in peace and content whether your ego perceives a person, place or thing to be pleasurable or painful, comfortable or not. This alone is Freedom.
How to Meditate – Happiness Is A Quiet Mind
Witness Consciousness is what we refer to as the state of the Observer or Watcher. It is the direct experience of witnessing awareness, the highest of meditation techniques and methods. This is a spiritual awareness in which you are able to watch your thoughts, emotions, notions, etc. come and go passively. In this way, you learn how to meditate without judgment. And without any reaction or response that allows for agitation of the mind. This is true meditation.
Witnessing awareness takes you beyond the mind and beyond the senses. You arrive to a state in which you are able to observe that source from which all thoughts arise, are sustained and withdrawn. The practice of Witness Consciousness centering allows you to watch your mind. This is the best way to learn how to meditate. It is a meditation method more powerful than most meditation techniques.
How To Meditate
The purpose of practicing Witness Consciousness centering is to begin to make the restless mind quiet. This is done to silence the mind’s agitation, in order to experience the no mind state in which Peace and Joy well up spontaneously from within. We accomplish this in an approach that most people experience the state of meditation, with little or no thoughts, in under three minutes! Consequently, this is the most effective of meditation techniques.
From this Palace of Peace, you are able to meditate spontaneously, and in a way that begins to silence your mind very quickly.
Witness Consciousness Centering is our Shaktipat Meditation method for making the restless mind quiet. You learn how to meditate effectively. This has been developed by our Founder, Kedarji. This Shaktipat Meditation method, the greatest of meditation techniques, has been proved to make the restless mind silent in under 3 minutes.
Dyan – Shaktipat Meditation – True Meditation
The meaning of this Sanskrit word is often translated as meditation and interpreted as sitting meditation techniques. But there is another meaning for Dhyan (the purest translation). That is ‘seat of awareness.’ This is the true meaning of Meditation – Awareness of the Self, the Supreme Intelligence or Shiva-Shakti power, at all times. To silence your restless mind, we teach you how to meditate with this awareness.
There are many meditators who confuse the brain with the mind. They believe that it is the brain that is the focus of meditation. They have not yet learned how to meditate. This is due to their own lack of witnessing awareness. This is a spiritual awareness that can only be developed by going beyond the mind and beyond the senses. Until you experience the witness to your mind, your attempts at making your restless mind quiet cannot bear permanent fruit. Instead, those attempts become just a string of glimpses that, at best, can only support the notions of duality, diversity and worldliness. For these reasons, if you want to expand your spiritual awareness, you need to understand and experience that Witness to your mind.
The Mind Is Not The Brain
It is only possible to know what the mind is by going to that place beyond the mind and beyond the senses. This allows you to experience the witness to your mind. Otherwise you will remain confused about what the mind really is.
In laboratory tests performed on mice, rats and other animals, the animals were taught how to run a maze, from beginning to end. They were run until they could complete the maze perfectly, over and over again. Then a team of scientists had the brains of these animals removed. Although taking longer to complete, these same animals ran and completed the maze perfectly, even though they had no brain with which to do so. Physicists have performed these tests to prove that memory does not rest in the brain, but in the mind. The brain is just a switching station for signals sent to it from elsewhere, a lump of flesh that simply processes energy and ‘data.’
Sages of Steady Wisdom
The great sages of our lineage tell us that the mind is an expression of the highest power, the Self. It is a contracted form of that same energy of Divine Consciousness that is responsible for sending the signals that the brain processes to operate the organs and limbs of the body. Quantum and bio physicists are now referring to this energy as the energy field or a morphic resonance (of which the mind is a part) that is embodied in a Higher Consciousness.
For centuries it has been known as the Shiva-Shakti power or just Shakti. Although the same lab tests cannot be replicated on human beings (whose going to allow their brain to be removed as a test?!), you can test this in the laboratory of your own existence. You can do so by the direct experience of Witness Consciousness.
Introduction to The Verses On Witness Consciousness – Shaktipat Meditation
I offer these verses at the lotus feet of Shri Bhagawan Nityananda of Ganeshpuri and Lord Shiva, the Guru of the Siddhas. To That Shiva-Shakti Principle be the glory.
There is a major challenge to your experiencing permanent spiritual transformation, and the ultimate state of Liberation that follows. That challenge is that you spend all your time concerning yourself with comfort, security and reward, rather than investing yourself in finding out who your really are. Rather than seeking and discovering your True nature in order to cure your amnesia.
For so many lifetimes you have chased after this comfort, security and reward. This is the pursuit of pleasure, in an attempt to avoid pain. It is the constant search of liberty and happiness outside, where it does not exist. You are always looking outside for what is not there.
The Story of The Musk Deer
My Master used to tell the story of the musk deer. The musk deer carries the wonderful scent of musk in its own navel. Yet, when it smells that scent coming from inside itself, it follows the breeze that carries the scent into the mountains, searching for where the scent is coming from, thinking it to be somewhere outside itself. It runs and runs after that scent, following the breeze up into the mountains. It runs and runs and eventually dies trying to find the source of that scent. Then the people living in the mountains cut open the musk deer and remove the musk! Until you recognize the true source of your happiness and peace, you are like that musk deer. So, get smart!
A restless mind cannot produce the kind of Peace, Joy, Centeredness and Happiness that is essential for individual well-being and the collective well- being of everyone on the planet. Holistic well-being requires a mind that is free from agitation, worry, doubt, fear, anxiety and restlessness.
Ocean of Peace
Inside you there is an ocean of Peace, a wellspring of Joy and Inspiration that never runs dry. To experience this, you have to go beyond your mind and beyond your senses to That Witness to your mind and your senses.
This begins by making the mind quiet so that you can experience what we call your natural, free state of being. This natural, free state of being is your True nature. So, a quiet mind is essential.
Happiness Is A Quiet Mind
What if you could experience a silent mind and then no thoughts whatsoever, and then a wonderful experience of Peace and Joy, in under three minutes?
What if you had a simple, daily practice in which you could maintain this experience of a silent mind, while making your mind sharper? The purpose of what is taught in this book is to give you that experience.
My Shri Gurudev has said that there are many journeys in life, but that the journey to Liberation begins with the understanding Shivo’Ham, I am Shiva, I am the Self. Without reaching for and holding this highest of understandings, while retracing one’s steps back to God, it is impossible to stay the course long enough to face yourself in order to root out the karmic obstacles to your Freedom and Liberation. These are the obstacles that you yourself have created.
All Spiritual Attainment Must Be Tested
Flushing these obstacles out in order to burn away all that you are not, requires that you be tested. These tests that are given by a living Sadguru, provide the proof of the absolute power of our approach and the practice of Witness Consciousness Centering. I offer these verses to help all seekers understand the huge benefit of practicing Witness Consciousness Centering to experience the state of the Observer. This can be accomplished in a way that one can understand that all the aspects and expressions of Humanity actually belong to the Self, not to the false notion of individuality, not to the body.
This book will offer an introduction to our approach to Nityananda Shaktipat Yoga. It emphasizes the importance of the Pure Perceiving Awareness that comes with the practice and experience of Witness Consciousness Centering for a heightened witnessing awareness. We add to this the practices of meditation, chanting, selfless service and contemplation.
A Request
Here’s what I ask of you. Just for awhile, as you read and contemplate these verses, set your cynicism aside. Set what you think you know aside. Set your ego aside. Set your current life experience aside. Do these so that you can contemplate these verses with an open heart and mind, ready to receive.
What we seek is beyond language. However, language is necessary to convey understandings that lead to the Truth. In a recent program one man said, “I was raised Catholic. My mother will never accept that I am God.”
So, please try not to get hung up on certain terms. They are ‘educational’ terms designed to direct your attention within. Do whatever it takes to get your feet into the water so that you can begin swimming in the ocean of your own Bliss, the Joy and Love of the true Heart. For example: If you are having trouble with the references here that you are God or the Self, then you can begin with the understanding that it is possible that you are much greater than you think you are. At the very least, I encourage you to start there, if it makes it easier for you to listen and imbibe.
May All Be Joyful,
Kedarji
