Do not think that meditation is a continuance and an expansion of experience.
In experience, there is always the witness and he is ever tied to the past.
Meditation, on the contrary, is that complete inaction which is the ending of all experience.
The action of experience has its roots in the past and so, it is time-binding; it leads to action which is inaction, and brings disorder.
Meditation is the total inaction which comes out of a mind that sees what is, without the entanglement of the past.
This action is not a response to any challenge but is the action of the challenge itself in which there is no duality.
Meditation is the emptying of experience and is going on all the time, consciously or unconsciously, so it is not an action limited to a certain period during the day.
It is a continuous action from morning till night - the watching without the watcher.
Therefore, there's no division between the daily life and meditation, the religious life and the secular life.
The division comes only when the watcher is tied to time.
In this division there is disarray, misery and confusion, which is the state of society.
So meditation is not individualistic, nor is it social, it transcends both and so includes both
This is love, the flowering of love is meditation.....
Adieu Sushma Swaraj ji!
Had purposely delayed my response on Sushma ji's passing into the mist of time. Much has been said by so many, who knew her very well and there seems to be a general consensus that she had friends across the spectrum, devoid of political considerations. So, anything that I might say would be like carrying coal to Newcastle and hence, I desist!
I noticed her for the first time when she said that she'd have her head shaved off if Sonia Gandhi were to be made the country's PM! I wondered as to why she could take such a strange position and dumped her to be a political maverick, in search of instant recognition and importance. But it was during her spell as the country's Minister of External Affairs through her sheer hard work, cutting through red tapism by the use of the Twitter extensively, that endeared her to me. She seemed to understand the pulse of the people and was at every troubled spot, anywhere in the world, to provide succor to the needy, underplaying her role, always!
RIP Sushma ji! My tears and prayers!! They don't make 'em leaders like you anymore. Here's wishing that your family has the strength to tide over these difficult times!!!
Tailpiece.
Had got up at 5 as Lekha had set the alarm to prepare an early breakfast for Padmakumar and Rema, who were off to Palakkad by 0800 hrs. The rain was on a continuous spree, creating havoc in the state, as gleaned from the television. The Malayalees were better prepared to shift to shelters and relief camps this time - probably, on the basis of the lessons learnt during the last floods!
In experience, there is always the witness and he is ever tied to the past.
Meditation, on the contrary, is that complete inaction which is the ending of all experience.
The action of experience has its roots in the past and so, it is time-binding; it leads to action which is inaction, and brings disorder.
Meditation is the total inaction which comes out of a mind that sees what is, without the entanglement of the past.
This action is not a response to any challenge but is the action of the challenge itself in which there is no duality.
Meditation is the emptying of experience and is going on all the time, consciously or unconsciously, so it is not an action limited to a certain period during the day.
It is a continuous action from morning till night - the watching without the watcher.
Therefore, there's no division between the daily life and meditation, the religious life and the secular life.
The division comes only when the watcher is tied to time.
In this division there is disarray, misery and confusion, which is the state of society.
So meditation is not individualistic, nor is it social, it transcends both and so includes both
This is love, the flowering of love is meditation.....
Adieu Sushma Swaraj ji!
Had purposely delayed my response on Sushma ji's passing into the mist of time. Much has been said by so many, who knew her very well and there seems to be a general consensus that she had friends across the spectrum, devoid of political considerations. So, anything that I might say would be like carrying coal to Newcastle and hence, I desist!
I noticed her for the first time when she said that she'd have her head shaved off if Sonia Gandhi were to be made the country's PM! I wondered as to why she could take such a strange position and dumped her to be a political maverick, in search of instant recognition and importance. But it was during her spell as the country's Minister of External Affairs through her sheer hard work, cutting through red tapism by the use of the Twitter extensively, that endeared her to me. She seemed to understand the pulse of the people and was at every troubled spot, anywhere in the world, to provide succor to the needy, underplaying her role, always!
RIP Sushma ji! My tears and prayers!! They don't make 'em leaders like you anymore. Here's wishing that your family has the strength to tide over these difficult times!!!
Tailpiece.
Had got up at 5 as Lekha had set the alarm to prepare an early breakfast for Padmakumar and Rema, who were off to Palakkad by 0800 hrs. The rain was on a continuous spree, creating havoc in the state, as gleaned from the television. The Malayalees were better prepared to shift to shelters and relief camps this time - probably, on the basis of the lessons learnt during the last floods!
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