COMMON FEARS ABOUT MEDITATION
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Many people think meditation involves blindly believing in something. People fear this. They come and tell me, 'I am afraid that I might get too attached to meditation.' Understand, meditation itself is nothing but removing your attachment! So you can't get too attached to it.
People are also afraid that their desires, fears and whatever else they think of as their life will be taken away from them if they start meditating.
In a way this is true!
- Once you start meditating, whatever you thought of as your life until then, will no longer be important to you!
- The real truths will start revealing themselves to you.
- All the illusions you were holding until then will start leaving you.
- All the time you are trying to protect yourself from the basic truths only because you are afraid of losing your illusions about life. The concept or the idea that you are a solid being, which is the root cause of all your fears, will simply be shaken by meditation.
- All that you thought you were, all your desires, all your fears, all your worries will be shaken and you will start going through a big change.
- This is what is called the psychological revolution. You will have practically a new birth! It is like changing the inner software of your computer. Your hardware may be the same, but your inner software will go through a big change.
- Meditation is all about changing the inner software. Your body, your hardware, may be the same, your material surroundings may be same, the persons with whom you are living may be same, but your being will be totally different.
Assignment 11
Self work out
All the time you are trying to protect yourself from the basic truths only because you are afraid of losing your illusions about life. The concept or the idea that you are a solid being, which is the root cause of all your fears, will simply be shaken by meditation.
All that you thought you were, all your desires, all your fears, all your worries will be shaken and you will start going through a big change. Pen down your experiences, where you tried to protect yourself.. . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------
When you find the deeper truths about you,you gain courage and confidence.
Conclusion
Many people think meditation involves blindly believing in something. People fear this. They come and tell me, ‘I am afraid that I might get too attached to meditation.’ Understand, meditation itself is nothing but removing your attachment! So you can’t get too attached to it.
Self exam:
Write answer for the following questions on your ‘My book’
- What do you understand by bliss please explain.
- Give the definition of meditation and brief about three kinds of meditation?
- Give the holistic health benefits of meditation?
- What is mean by psychological revolution?
- What are the common fears about meditation?