Sunday, November 30, 2008

It will pass

A student went to his meditation teacher and said, "My meditation is horrible! I feel so distracted, or my legs ache, or I'm constantly falling asleep. It's just horrible!" "It will pass," the teacher said matter-of-factly.
A week later, the student came back to his teacher. "My meditation is wonderful! I feel so aware, so peaceful, so alive! It's just wonderful!'
"It will pass,"the teacher replied matter-of-factly.

5 comments:

AMIT JAIN said...

wo din na rahe to ye din bhi na rahege

Rohit Saxena said...

this is a classsic... both the cases he was not in meditative state.
The idea of meditation is thoughtlessness....

Vaibhav Bhandari said...

You have got the message very rightly, Rohit. Its good to learn that you keep interest in such stuff and think in this direction also.

Vaibhav Bhandari said...

Well, Rohit you have used a very good term. This is the basic message which this blog communicates. That is the transition "from thought to thoughlessness"; "from time to timelessness"; "from self to no-self"; "from full to emptiness"; "from knowlegde to null, to void".

The very objective is to give people a thought to move towards thoughtlessness, towards emptiness, into the void.

Mayank Trivedi said...

What is meditation?? do you need to put efforts to meditate...if your answer is Yes, then you are absolutely WRONG there....Meditation come effortlessly.....its the state of divine bliss when you just let your mind free and do not try to control it. Meditation is the art that does not need effort and provides peace.....