Comments on: Things I Have Learnt From Meditation

By: madzia

madzia — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:50:54 +0000

My best idea is to repeat “OM” – that never fails.

By: Santhosh

Santhosh — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:53:55 +0000

Hi Tejvan,

It is a pleasure reading your posts. I also have been practising meditation for the last one year. I have been very inconsistent with it. But I like the fact that is not forced upon. Could you guide me as to where I can find some music for meditation.

Thank you

By: Colleen Carver

Colleen Carver — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:09:45 +0000

Hi Tejvan,
I am a Yoga study student and I am currently doing some research for a paper I need to complete in the coming months. I have chosen Meditation as my topic or to be more precise the title is going to be “Journeys into meditation” My intention is to interview a small number of people so they can tell of their own personal journeys. I want my research paper to inspire and encourage others to seek their own journey. I thought reading other peoples experiences would be interesting reading. I would be most grateful if you would allow me to present your article as part of my paper. I look forward to your reply. Could you please email me directly. thanks so much
Colleen

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control thoughts? — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:26:39 +0000

there is no thing as bad meditation.

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By: Tejvan Pettinger

Tejvan Pettinger — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:53:29 +0000

Meditation definitely tries to be in the present moment. In a really powerful meditation you feel time ceases to exist.

By: Jost

Jost — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:28:59 +0000

Hi Tejvan,

thanks for your reply. Even with my limited experience and impressions I have had I can understand what the poem means. Not having experienced that, but understanding it.

Another question in relation to my last one occured to me: To my understanding meditation is also about being in the present, the current moment. Again, I grasp what that means, but haven’t had the feeling so far to really be aware and concious in the present. What are your experiences with that?

By: Tejvan Pettinger

Tejvan Pettinger — Mon, 12 May 2008 10:13:20 +0000

I would say To experience the self – that which is beyond all thought, form and mental conception is a very advanced state of meditation. In fact self-realisation is often held up as the goal of meditation.

I would say, I have only had the odd, partial, glimpse of this consciousness.

To share what this Self is, is of course, very difficult. This is why I chose to end with a poem by Sri Chinmoy

“No mind, no form, I only exist;
Now ceased all will and thought;
The final end of Nature’s dance,
I am it whom I have sought.”

- Excerpt from The Absolute, Sri Chinmoy

I could have chosen many other Mystical poems which express similar ideas.

By: Jost

Jost — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:58:43 +0000

Hello Tejvan,

thanks for sharing your experiences, it is very interesting for me to read. I am a beginner in meditation and my short “career” (around half a year) has been rather inconstant. Sometimes I reached a state I comprehend as at peace or calm where I’m only with my breath and my heartbeat but that is far from happening regularly.

My question to you as a more experienced meditator is: Can you say you have ever really had a grasp of your own self, your being or existence? Perceived it in its entirety and “touched” your presence? It’s difficult to explain, but for example, I can remind myself of focusing on my breath and thereby trying to be present, aware, and yet I’m not under the impression to have a hold of what is behind my thoughts.

Hopefully you know what I mean, I’m very interested in your reply.