Comments on: Why do you want to meditate?

By: DoesNotMatter

DoesNotMatter — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:20:22 +0000

I have some bad habits. These manifest as thought patterns. These thought patterns cause me pain and misery. The only reason these thought patterns are there is because I have made a habit out of them. How these habits started I do not know. I also know that everything you believe in, everything you are as a person, every desire you have, every fear you have is nothing but a conditioned response. These are responses conditioned by lots and lots of practice (perhaps unconsciously). If lots of practice is what caused these misery causing thought patterns, then lots of practice is what is needed to break them. “Doing nothing” is not an option. You may think you are doing nothing, but in reality, your mind is always running these patterns. Again and Again and Again. And each time it runs these patterns, the habit gets stronger. The only way to break these patterns is

1. Be aware of them
2. Be aware how they cause you misery
3. And do not consciously add to these thought patterns

Miraculously (I actually do not think it is a miracle at all), after a while you notice that your old thought patterns are broken and you are feeling much less miserable. What I do in meditation is nothing but points 1.,2., and 3. exclusively. I do them during my workday, my workout too, but doing this exclusively is much more potent. Doing 1.,2.3, exclusive to all other actions is what I call meditation

By: Joaquin

Joaquin — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:12:24 +0000

Hi Steven!!! Thanks for your useful information! I want to meditate mainly for stress relief. I want to have my mind as clear as possible. I felt really empathized when I listened to all that you say in the video. I really like the idea of learning “I AM course” but the problem is that I have no money, anyway all you can tell me in order to learn will be quite useful. THANKS FOR HELPING ALL OF US!

By: Jerzy

Jerzy — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:30:15 +0000

Hi Steven,
I need meditation basically for reducing stress, various anxieties but first of all for personal spiritual growth and enlightenment. Now i’ve been meditating according to shamata – vipassana tradition, but I want to enter into deeper and more advanced levels of meditation.
All the best for you.

By: Yakubu Zubairu

Yakubu Zubairu — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:11:13 +0000

Hi,
Steven Sashen I want to performing meditation in other to improve my performances and spiritual reasoning.

By: Don

Don — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:49:41 +0000

Presently, I’ve been meditating most days–vipassana. I meditate in the hope that my blood pressure can come down to a consistenly normal level. I have high blood pressue and take meds for it.

By: Steven Sashen

Steven Sashen — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:53:20 +0000

Suggestions about what? I’m not sure what you said that sounds problematic, or in need of a suggestion.

By: fred

fred — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 19:34:36 +0000

I started meditating over thirty years ago with TM. I found it a useful way to gain deep rest and recover from stress. Then I started experimenting with other techniques, mostly Vipassana and other Buddhist derived practices. I found them less relaxing and more time consuming to notice any effects from. They seem to be most appropriate to a monastic or retreat setting. The last time I tried Goenka’s body scan technique after a retreat all of my sensations seemed tinged with a subtle sense of unpleasantness. This had never happened before and I decided Goenka’s technique was not for me. I also find the philosophical basis of Buddhism problematic with their emphasis on no self and the elimination of suffering as opposed to producing positive flourishing for the self and others. These days I like to meditate in nature with eyes open and merge with my sensory environment. When meditating at home I often just sit with eyes closed and do some TM for a while and then sit doing nothing at all, just letting whatever happens come up. I’m not really sure why I do this, but it seems about as interesting as anything else. Any suggestions?

By: Rita

Rita — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:33:24 +0000

Hello!
I wish to do advance meditation because somehow i feel there is something that i need to know. i have been meditating from almost ten years, so many times not even knowing why, but it just seems right. There seems to be a calling, some continuous search is there in me….at times i feel i want to experience how everything is in me and i am a part of everything, want to experience the universal love and want to stay in it………know what i am meant to do and do that. There are times when i feel i am going totally mad and feel like never meditating but then then somehow i start doing it again. dont know exactly but a constant yearning is there to be connected to god, nature, the superpower, whatever it can be called.

By: P

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:01:24 +0000

Hello, Steven,
For me meditation has always been a part of our family. Daily my Mother and Grand mother spent 2 hrs for that … I spend around 30 min max. lately my interest has drastically increased because -
1) i have been doing it and seen family doing it
2) i am going through a lot turmoil in my life…..
Meditation with Sawan Kirpal Ruhani Mission has given me a lot of hope and positivity to keep living ….
Now i want to really work towards finding my inner self and see a new world , which , i have already started ….

By: Glenn

Glenn — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:08:04 +0000

I wish to meditate to quieten the many thoughts, arguments, plans that constantly take place in my head. Only when I quieten them can I concentrate on my body and what is within