Why Meditate?
June 28th, 2008 | Meditation Techniques |When we have an inner peace, we can find it much easier to achieve outer peace. Meditation is one way that we can do so. Imagine a bucket that you filling with inner peace. Drop by drop, it slowly fills to the top. When it spills over we do not have a mess, but an outflowing of tranquility that permeates itself into our daily lives and not just when we are sitting on our cushion.
We learn to control our actions and thoughts instead of them controlling us. Instead of a chattering mind, we have one that is steady and calm. It is a way to deal with the disturbances of everyday life. We cleanse our minds of the impurities that seek to develop. It lets us see the true nature of how things really are, not through the eyes of delusion.
My friends, there is no greater gift you can give to yourself than a steady meditation practice. Keep a regular schedule of meditation and you will see the benefits. Not as a lightening bolt striking, but as a gentle river carrying away the soil of a river bank. Slowly but surely. It will not be denied.
Dr Taylor says: I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner peace circuitry of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world, and the more peaceful our planet will be.