Insight into Meditation and Yoga
Description:... "There is the way, and not ways! — This is about the learning of our consciousness in its movement as it is, which basically is movement of feelings and sensations. That is, the learning of life per se is possible only in the fire of observation of feelings and sensations with skill and diligence, involving the awakening of bodhi or intelligence on its own from nowhere, and their emptying. We need to understand this absolutely clearly.
Look, you drive a car by learning driving skills, how a car works, traffic rules etc.; however, when you drive a car, if you miss attention for a second, you will have an accident. Attention cannot be learned and achieved by any gradual preparation, learning some methodology or science. Thought has no role in learning about and coming to attention. Attention can use thought and its skills in different fields, but not vice versa. Round the other way, inwardly, thought has no potential to behold the movement of feelings as they are and the tremendous speed of sensational waves and learning life beyond the known. Understand this well, and realize the futility of different ways, traditions, beliefs in the name of religion.
The sense of siddhas and buddhas is the way of attention or meditation and virtue, which is not such a difficult thing to understand and to live with. Our ears listen and eyes see, and it is not that somebody else’s eyes listen, ears see. That is the part of religion. In attention, in right meditation with skill and diligence, you are open to learning the infinite depths and mysteries of life. And this text is a rare guide that shows what easy, sweet and natural way or flowering of meditation is.
अभच्छ्या इमरित सबदका पाणी,
षेदा षेदी रगत्र करि जाणी।
नाथ कहै यह ग्यान अनूप,
देषति द्रष्टि न पडिये कूप।।
The water of the word is ambrosia not yet drunk,
learn about pain and sorrows in the blood.
Nath says, this wisdom is peerless,
look, behold, don't fall in the pit.
— Gorakh, Sabadi 303."
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