By Earth Ally Will Harader ~ Real Meditation

Lia's picture

 

I'm going to tell you something that runs counter to most ideas of what spiritual means. You've been given these images of “spiritual people” who meditate most of the day, and spend their time with eyes half-opened, completely sedated. They have renounced the world, and don't really participate in Life anymore. They speak softly and slowly, and don't really have much passion for anything. This image people are given is one of only numbness, not True Spirituality, which is Passion for Everything.

 

What's the point of meditation? To calm oneself down enough for self-contemplation? It's useful to a point, but eventually a person is going to have to directly confront what's stressing them out in the first place. Meditation just numbs the mind to the point a little bit of intelligence sometimes pops out, yet it's mostly an avoidance mechanism. It's like what most channelers do, they set their ego aside for a moment, and then pick it up again when done. It's something to numb the pain of their ego/mind, without having to do any real work on themselves. You can't go through you emotional attachments without feeling the emotions. The sense of peace people get from meditation is often an illusion to mask the emotional turmoil beneath the surface.

Same with mantras, rituals, chanting, ceremony, all of those things supposedly spiritual often actually hinder spiritual growth. A crutch is only useful if your legs are broken. When you don't need it anymore, it actually prevents healing. The only way to go beyond unconsciousness is to confront it directly, then it disappears. Many, if not most of these so-called spiritual practices actually feed into unconsciousness. One addiction is just traded for another.

There's only one meditation and that's called being Present. Consciousness is raised through increased Awareness, while the meditation most practice actually lowers awareness. Why else would people have to close their eyes to meditate? Real Meditation is done in every Moment, it's not something you do once or twice a day. If you want to get over your stuff, you have to be there to get over it. Be very aware of what your doing in your spiritual practices, are you becoming more conscious, or are you just stuffing things back down? It's better to be stressed out and paying attention to that stress, than to pretend it doesn't exist. If you want a real sense of Peace, you're going to have to go through everything that makes you not feel peaceful.

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Alanry's picture

Dear deity,

   Fabtastic article I am gob smacked!  I think what you say has a lot of truth but again I think there is a tinge of judgement and over generalization.  Funny I have been a lot in Buddhist monasteries and temples and I have noted what you say and yet and yet there is a point at which retreat is the only way for some, the world is just too crazy, too much stress makes you numb and dumb and not so many are such heroes and so fearless we can go through all and remain Aware like Buddha facing the demon hordes of Mara, like Christ on the cross!   I long for retreat now I am so tired of old 3d stuff and it's not running away I have dealt with this for more than 30 years held down a job raised a family travelled the world you name it! and continued my spiritual search.   So I don't judge people who say enough is enough and feel the call of the cloisters or the zen mountain temple. Many numb themselves run away from life, and a few awaken for they have been through their stuff I guess in this and former lives and it's time for the hothouse treatment!  Maybe with Ascension enlightenment will be more available to more folk not just the spiritual elite marine corps!  or paras! that is the earth will become saner and more balanced and we won't have to go the mountains anymore; the spirit of the mountains will come to us whereever we are, and maybe we won't have to renounce everything violently leave the gals the money the job the stuff the backdrop of divine energies and consciousness will be there for us and even the trad distractors will point us Home!

  Love for a great article,

         Al 

meditating on something

taragrace's picture

we are always meditating on something

some of us are meditating on making money, some of us are meditating on material goals and some of us might be meditating on making music..

For some, they have gone off to the mountains meditated and completely transformed themselves..this is why I never  say something is an escape

I believe it is in the person..and how sincere they are..

having said that I also understand this post...

Tara Grace