Being Instead of Doing: Journey into Constant Meditation
Today, let's talk about meditation, our main tool for consciousness evolution and expansion. I'm sure those of us who are serious about walking a spiritual path, meditate frequently and we have our own experiences, successes and failures with it.
Unfortunately, meditating is not yet for everybody and most people on the planet either have never heard of it, have heard of it and rejected it or tried it and decided that it's not for them.
These are all valid viewpoints, and nobody can fault these people. However, if we want to advance in this school of consciousness on this planet, we simply cannot ignore the critical importance of meditation.
In our Western society we typically tend to be much less mindful and meditate much less compared to our friends from the East. While it is normal for people from India, Japan or Tibet to meditate frequently and even lengthily, most people from Europe or the USA don't adhere to this practice. Our mindset is typically not compatible with serious practice of meditation.
Well, I hope that this information may be helpful not just for those of us who practice meditation and are indeed serious about it, but also for those who contemplate to add meditation to their daily routine.
Meditation is not something static and is a highly dynamic process, as it is related to our consciousness and therefore to our existential presence. It is the doorway to expansion and evolution. It fully supports the new paradigm of “being” instead of “doing”. In the external world we "do", but in the internal world we "are".
Let me describe this process from my personal perspective. Beginning to observe my self from the vantage point of “being” and allowing the content of my consciousness as well as my embodiment of the observer to deepen is one way to initiate meditation. Focusing on my breath has a miraculous effect on my mind. It calms down and ceases to be restless. After a while, when I let go of my focus on the breath it becomes so much easier to "be" than to "do". Thoughts pop up with much less frequency and urgency. They disturb my abiding "beingness" much less than before. I allow my self-awareness to flow gently. You might ask me at this point, why I don't focus longer on my breath to cultivate a more perfect beingness. The answer is that nothing is set in stone, especially with something so inherently dynamic as meditation. I have found that this process is more suited to my self. I simply perceive the level of abiding “beingness” that’s right for me. You might find or devise another process more appealing to you. The third stage in my personal meditation process is to "imagine" the deep state of unconditional love, which fills my consciousness and blots out any other feelings. Through constant repetition of my intent without thoughts and feelings, but with an intent "made solid" within me, I surrender to unconditional love. This "intent made solid within me" might be difficult to describe, and every seeker of inner peace must discover it on their own. However, it is an important stage in my own, personal process. It allows me to go deeper and leave the typical, medium-level meditation depth that is practiced in Western society. The fourth stage of my meditation process is initiated abruptly after wilfully diving so deep that it feels like I am sleeping. Suddenly, I feel that my conscious ability to influence the experience of my own meditation is wrestled away from me. It is like the sun is going up within me and I feel "more" connected and "one" with my self and the universe. Thoughts of my neighbour, Earth and other humans feel like examples of a distant dream. This is the stage where our true Self begins to reveal itself more willingly to the conscious self. I feel so much unconditional love that it almost becomes unbearable. You might say that this is the fun stage of my meditation process. It also acts as a springboard to a deeper stage that requires a bit more internal effort. With the “solid intent attitude” that I mentioned earlier, I can push further and the "I" inside me dissolves further and comes even closer to "we". I have always been like this, in fact we all have been like this, but now I can perceive it clearer than ever before during my waking state.
However, you probably agree with me that meditation is not just fun, it is the portal, the gateway to the universe and other beings. In this last stage sacred communion with other beings through feelings and sensations is possible. If you ask to have sincere Inner Contact with other beings and your meditational state is so deep that it is impossible for your ego to follow you, then you will have it. There is even a shared framework in place, which is proof that your experience is real. For example, if there is a group meditation taking place, which enhances the consciousness field, then the individual members of the group will perceive the same or similar feelings, sensations and images. That's what happened when I was part of an Experimental Contact Group. In our group all members had a shared Contact experience with the Plejaren Family in Z's books.
Let me grab this opportunity and confirm beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Contact is real, even if your ego-based belief systems might disagree and you allow your ego to delude you.
After presenting my personal experience with meditation, I think it's time that we might attempt to reframe the whole concept of meditation. While we are accustomed to practicing it when sitting in a position that's comfortable for us, like in an armchair, in a traditional lotus posture or a warrior pose from martial arts, our consciousness has evolved sufficiently to begin practicing it everywhere without the need to sit. I am referring to a concept that goes beyond mindfulness. Native American elders as well as elders from all indigenous tribes on the planet have been living like this long before we were born. Another example was the Buddha, who didn’t talk much and smiled a lot. This happens when you are meditating in a state of wakefulness.
You might ask your selves if I'm going nuts or something. I assure you, I'm not or at least not yet. I have still a lot of spiritual practice ahead of me to experience enlightenment like Tibetan monks for example, after days of constant meditation.
No, I would just like to share an experience I had two days ago, when I was walking. One of my insights in my recent past has been to prepare our selves to live in a state of constant meditation. It is basically a state which is characterized by the following elements: first, our mind is not chattering incessantly. Second, we experience life, instead of living it, and we are fully immersed in it. Third, our Heart-based sensors are wide open, and insights are flowing into our consciousness, yet they are not disturbing our state of being.
Let me get back to my experience while I was out on a walk. Fortunately, I am blessed to be living in Ireland, where people place a lot of importance on nature. The housing estates are filled with many trees and grass is everywhere. While I was walking in a state of joy, I remembered my earlier insight that we are moving into a state of being where we exist in a state of constant meditation. Instantly, I wanted to experience this state of being and tried to block out random thoughts. Instead, I looked around, trying to immerse my self and blend into my surroundings. Thinking back now, my memories and experiences of my surroundings at that time and place are crystal clear. Anyway, to continue my story, I was walking like this for a while, refusing to entertain any superfluous thoughts and trying to just be and not think. I failed miserably, after my ego deviously thought about my health and what I am doing to improve it. My mind fluidly went to thinking about it and I completely forgot about being in the present. I was walking like this for a while, until a yellow leaf from a maple tree above me fell just in front of me, touching my face lightly. I had the instant insight to stop taking my self so seriously and to immerse my self in nature again. Surprisingly, I was blissed out with this insight, as I was sure it came from my true Self, which was observing me constantly, looking out for me and protecting me while I am incarnated on this world. With a smile, I looked up and saw the large maple tree and its adorning orange, yellow and brown leaves. In this moment I was one with the tree, my true Self and nature.
I instantly understood that reframing meditation will lead us to unity consciousness in a state of being that is not confined and restricted from the perspective of our limited self and allow the meditational state to spill over into our waking consciousness. In the past we have separated meditational state from waking state. Why? I will tell you why. It is because we possess fundamentally separated consciousness states, that are relevant to different activities and states of being. It is now time to blend all these consciousness states and to live as one with our true Selves and additionally as one with nature and by extension with the universe. We begin perceiving our selves as one with nature, which is naturally leading us to becoming one with our Selves. This is because nature is reflective of our selves and focuses our awareness. Once we accomplish that, we can perceive our selves as one with the universe.
As humans living on this planet now, we are blessed to participate in such a profound consciousness transformation that our limited self never thought possible. We are oblivious to our infinite potential. Every day I notice small little details of extreme potential that we humans bear inside of us, but at the same time, these moments are small, like rays of light that burst into the living room when curtains move. Once the curtains settle in their previous position, the rays of light are once again obstructed. Fortunately, I strongly remember my experiences. It is like an afterimage that persists in my eyes, long after looking at the sun itself. They are powerful beyond anything I have experienced before COVID.
In these moments I am reminded of the glorious future of humanity. The pain that all of us experience during these Great Changes that trouble us humans in different ways, based on whatever we need to purge from within us are just birthing pains of a brilliant new consciousness. We are reborn from within. Join me and feel my bliss, for there is no amount of conditioning that will make me despair again. Not if I am experiencing life, instead of merely living it… in other words, as I am meditating while being wide awake.