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Meditation
Meditation has become a short of fashion in the modern world. It is a pity to see people meditate without making the mind suitable for meditation. As we have discussed earlier, a kid with an agitated mind cannot focus on reading a book. The mind must be relaxed to read a book and not the other way around. Reading a book cannot relax the mind.
This is why meditation has been introduced in Space Therapy section, because only when the mind is available and relaxed meditation is easy. People find initial peace of mind in meditation and quick benefits because of the sudden relief they find getting out of the nosier world.
In the long run, only if the mind is less agitated can the mind transcend to Awareness state throughout the day. Other wise only during meditation the mind transcend to awareness state and rest of the time it is in the usual agitative state.
To meditate the mind has to be less agitated. Many do meditation to make the mind less agitated. Which is correct?. A less agitated mind only can really do meditation. Since it is easy to meditate when the mind is less agitated, morning time is preferred. The reason is the that after a sleep the mind that is drawn inwards is easy to transcend to awareness.
More over, along with meditation if there is no proper attention given to tame the Ego, frustration and seeking for the "Self" continues. Still a feeling of incompleteness continues in the life of an individual who may be doing meditation even for many years. If the Ego is not taken care it also leads to make an individual feel superior over others which is nothing but bloating the Ego further.
Important Note:
The above statements about meditation is not meant to hurt anyone who is already doing any sort of meditation techniques. If you are already doing meditation technique, please continue to do and not stop it. What we are implying here is that if you simultaneously take care of your thoughts allowing less agitations in the mind, meditative state of awareness can be extended 24 hours a day. Then meditation will not be restricted only to the meditation time but one will experience it all the time doing any other activities.
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Mind watching
We have discussed about abstinence and observing the mind. Observing the mind leads to witnessing all the acts of the mind, intellect and Ego and finally Awareness. Until we do deepen our awareness, we do not clearly see a distinction in these four components of our inner faculty. Mind watching helps in controlling anger and stress. All other means are superficial means to overcome negative qualities of the mind.
Mind watching is still initially a thought. But in an instance it transcends to a witnessing mode, which is not a thought process. This witnessing mode is pure Awareness.
This witnessing mode is symbolized in Vedic and Buddhist tradition as a face over the meditating personality. That face represent the witnessing mode or pure awareness.
The process of mind watching initially will be only for a few seconds because the mind wanders and not in the control. Over time with all the exercises, when awareness deepens the mind watching also prolongs. This finally leads to a state that the observer, observed and the observation becomes one and the same. Meditation leads to this final thoughtless state , which is known as "Samadhi" in Sanskrit and Tamil.
Be aware of the actively thinking mind and exercise the act of terminating the jumping thoughts. At this time, keep focused on your awareness only. Till this stage awareness itself is a thought. The moment there is inner silence due to less thoughts, one experiences the "Awareness of being aware". This is the final state of meditation which we will discuss in next page.
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Space Silence (The Last Exercise of Space Therapy)
Abstinence from talking causes physical silence. But what matter is the inner silence. Once a week or at least once a month abstain from talking the whole day. this increases physical power of the body and mind.
Why to do physical silence?
Doing all the awareness increasing exercises, we will find that we maintain the state of awareness and aware of our thoughts. However we would notice that while talking we lose track of the state. The final practice then would be to have awareness even while talking. But to attain this, one needs this final practice of abstaining from talking or maintaining physical silence.
Initial step is to abstain from talking for one whole day. If any urgent message is to be conveyed, it is written on a paper and handed over. But overtime make sure that on that day you also abstain from doing any work.
While doing this abstaining from talking, the important point to be noted is to decrease the intensity of the thoughts that arise in the mind. Keep dismissing any thought that arises in the mind. The nature of mind is its meandering means. From one thought it jumps into another like a monkey jumping from one tree to another. The mind associates one thought to the another as if it were very logical. Example if it see a car, then the thought of Toyota or Honda leads to Japan or New York, then it leads to a statue of liberty or Hiroshima bombing. From there it leads to world war and so on. In the above example, stay with the thought of the car itself, never allow the mind to get into the thought of Japan or New York. Nib it before it jumps into later thoughts.
This should be the objective of the silence therapy or space therapy. As we have mentioned several times that though the size of the brain is only 20% of the whole body, it consumes more than 40% of energy even at rest, then imagine while actively thinking. This energy will be conserved for the body as well as for healing and repairing body damages.
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Steps in abstinence (Space therapy)
1. Before and while doing Space therapy (Abstinence) make sure your intention is what watch the mind and be aware of the thoughts.
2. When too much agitated allow the mind to take over the object of its desire but with more awareness. Example, when you abstain from eating or salt-less eating, your mind would crave for it, make justification, feels more restless. Be attentive of these thoughts. Understand that these are the thoughts of the mind. You see that the mind is focused on this issue and does not wander away. This is the moment when you can witness your mind.
3. When the craving for the object is too much instead of controlling and scolding the mind allow it get the object. But again pay attention to mind , watch the mind aggrandizing the object of desire. Be aware of that you are aware of your mind. This itself is a thought. But later you will transcend to a state of watching or witnessing yourself, which is not a mental thought and that is pure awareness.
Do not scold yourself
Do to the tendency to get the mind control, one tends to scold oneself while doing these practices. When there is craving of the mind for the abstained objects, it is natural that the mind to revolt. Instead of rebuking it, allow the mind once a while to get the object it desires. But while doing this act be attentive to the thoughts, other wise it will result in indulgence. If the mind is scolded or judged as powerless, then the mind loses enthusiasm in everything. The mind develops dis-interest in everything and this leads to frustration and depression. So do not scold the mind, instead develop friendship with it. A servant is happy when the master is friendly with him or her at the same time maintaining discipline and strictness.
The final practice in Space therapy is the abstinence from talking and experience inner silence.
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Power of Abstinence
Through abstinence one has to observe the mind. The purpose of abstinence is to watch the mind. Mind watching is the closest process that leads to awareness and also to stay in awareness and also leads to the state of pure Consciousness.
When we do abstinence of food, sex, activity or talking etc we get a chance to watch the mind. We observe how the mind craves for the object of desire, put forth temptations, makes justifications to give up the task of abstinence etc. We know these aspects of the mind, but we are helpless in those moments and fall to the weakness of the mind.
Through the abstinence of space therapy, we are deliberately putting our mind in stake and watching the mind. We see our own self how agitated and restless the mind is. Just keep observing the mind and be aware of the mind thoughts. This is a very powerful means of mind watching which leads in controlling the mind to a greater extent that you can have hold of your mind.
Now most of the mind is not at all in our control. we think as the mind dictates. We are just caught up in the whirl pool of thoughts of the mind. We helplessly falls into the negative thoughts of greed, anger, jealousy, fear, lust and hatred bring adverse effects to the body and hinder the healing force. As we had discussed before these negative emotions manifest as diseases. To get out of stress, the mind should be relaxed and purified from the negative thoughts. This can happen in a slow process of mind watching. Only through the watching the mind we can nib out the unwanted thoughts.
Next we will the steps involved in final space therapy.
