How to meditate
It is hard to pick up meditation from just reading a write-up, but I would like to share a few basic pointers about what meditation involves. No matter what form of meditation you follow, the basic mutual principle is to quieten your thoughts and mind. We can sit in a chair for many hours, but, if thoughts continually pass through our mind then our thought will be ineffective. Ultimately the aim is to have a mind free of thoughts. It is in this inner silence that we can knowledge a consciousness of real peace.
At first glance, people may find the concept of stopping thoughts very hard. If you try sitting silent for a while, you will probably be busy with thoughts. When giving meditation classes, the difficulty of controlling the thoughts is a ordinary experience. However, if you sincerely try, you can learn to reduce the power of opinion over yourself.
If we practice patiently in this way, gradually our off-putting thoughts will subside and we will experience a sense of inner peace and relaxation. Our mind will feel lucid and roomy and we will feel refreshed. When the sea is rough, sediment is churned up and the water become murky, but when the wind dies down the mud slowly settles and the water becomes clear. In a similar way, when the otherwise incessant flow of our off-putting thoughts is calmed through concentrating on the breath, our mind becomes unusually lucid and clear. We should stay with this state of mental calm for a while.
Even though breathing meditation is only a beginning stage of meditation, it can be quite powerful. We can see from this practice that it is likely to experience inner peace and contentment just by controlling the mind, without having to depend at all upon outside conditions.
When the turbulence of off-putting thoughts subsides and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within. This feeling of satisfaction and well-being helps us to cope with the busyness and difficulty of daily life. So much of the stress and tension we normally experience comes from our mind, and many of the problems we experience, including ill health, are caused or provoked by this stress. Just by doing breathing meditation for ten or fifteen minutes each day, we will be able to reduce this stress. We will experience a calm, spacious feeling in the mind, and many of our usual harms will fall away. Difficult situations will become easier to deal with, we will of course feel warm and well disposed towards other people, and our relations with others will gradually improve.
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