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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking,

In order to understand what meditation is, it is first necessary to look at life from the standpoint of what we as human beings can control. Do we have complete control over every aspect of our lives or is our control limited?

At first you might be tempted to say that you do have complete control over every aspect of your life, but when you dig a little deeper you will find that the only two things that you can completely control in life are your thoughts and actions. That’s it. Most things are simply beyond your control.

Fortunately, the power to take responsibility for your personal state of mind is something you have control over. Therefore, you have the ability to change your state of mind for the better.

According to Buddhism this is an important thing that you can and should do for yourself. In fact, Buddhism believes that taking complete control of your state of mind is the only real antidote to worry, anxiety, fear, confusion, stress and frustration.

Meditation is a way of transforming your mind. By using techniques that encourage and promote concentration, positive feelings, clarity, a relaxed state, and a calm way of seeing the truth in all things, you can improve your mental and physical well being.

Meditation also offers an opportunity to get in touch with your mind on an intricate spiritual level in order to discover its habits and patterns. It is one of the most effective ways to cultivate new, positive and fulfilling ways of being.

Meditation is a state of thoughtless awareness. It is not about effort or doing, rather it is simply a state of awareness.

According to Indian mystic, guru and spiritual teacher, Osho “All that the mind is capable of doing and achieving is not relevant when it comes to meditation – meditation is something beyond the mind. The mind is absolutely helpless when it comes to meditation.”

Osho goes on to say that “The mind cannot penetrate meditation; where mind ends, meditation begins.”

You and I have been taught to believe that everything can be done with the mind. So, when it comes to meditation, our natural inclination is to start thinking in terms of techniques, methods and what we can do to maximize our meditational experience.

It makes sense that we would think this way because so many things in life validate the use of the mind in getting what we want. We have been raised with the belief that “if you just put your mind to it, you can do anything.” There is truth to that, yet the only thing that the mind cannot “do” is meditate.

Meditation techniques will teach you how to take control of and connect with your mind, but the necessity of that control only pertains to the degree in which it allows you to free yourself from your mind.

Meditation is your true nature. It is your being. It is fully you and it can only be entered into through the emptying of your mind. As Osho teaches “Meditation is not an achievement – it is something that already exists in you, it is your nature. It is there waiting for you – just turn inward and it is available. You have been carrying it always.”

Meditation therefore is the simple process of removing your attention from current conditions and circumstances which when focused on too regularly fragment and cloud your perceptions.

When you allow for clear, unadulterated levels of conscious awareness to occur you access the spiritual being inside of you. This Spirit being is superior to your human mind and physical body and offers guidance and peace that you are unable to achieve at a human level.

As you consistently and patiently learn how to empty your mind, the deepened focus and concentration that you immerse yourself in will slowly create in you an intensely peaceful, powerful, clear and energised state of mind.

This spiritually energised state of mind is your intrinsic, Spirit nature that can guide and lead you in Truth and cause a transformative effect that will give you a new understanding of life.