Simple Meditation Techniques
There are hundreds of meditations described, and one only has to surf the internet to see the plethora of meditation techniques. What I am about to describe, is one more kind of meditation, which is both extremely easy and extremely difficult to do, simultaneously. I have called it nothing meditation. We keep the rules to the minimum and make it as simple as we can.
Without much ado, a quick look at nothing meditation. Here are the steps
1. Sit in a quiet calm place, relaxed, where you will not be disturbed for a few minutes, taking care to put off all electronic media, and wearing loose-fitting clothes.
2. Any comfortable position is fine---sitting, standing, lying down.
3. Breathe slowly, focussing on your in-breath and out-breath. The breath should be the long, deep inspiration and deep expiration, and eventually, you should be taking four or five breaths per minute (as opposed to the normal twenty per minute that we take, unconsciously). Slowing of the breath slows down the brain waves and makes us relaxed.
4. There is only one rule---you are not allowed to think any thoughts which come from the realm of the known. By this, what is meant is that whatever you know--yourself, your body, your thoughts, your fears, joys, happiness, worries, anxieties, achievements, failures, your relationships, your possessions, your job, your current and past problems, your shortcomings, things that you see or have seen, heard, touched, tasted, smelt, thought about----basically nothing that is known, seen, heard, felt, or imagined, about yourself or about the world around you, from your birth till now---is allowed. You are not allowed to think anything related to you or your possessions or anything that you can think, in this Universe
5. Every thought that crops up is analyzed and if it is coming from the known, it has to be given up.
6. Eventually, when you have exhausted all the thoughts about things you know, imagine, possess, or own, or have seen and experienced, or heard from others, or read about, you are left with NOTHING
7. You have bypassed the realm of the 'known' and now are left with only that which is beyond the known.
8. What that is, I cannot say, because when we say it, it goes from unknown to known. If can only be experienced, or maybe non-experienced.
Try it out today...
Happy meditation.
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