What Is Meditation

Sharing. Hello, Bashar. Hi. Hi. I just, first of all, I wanted to thank you for sharing your awareness and understandings with us because... And you. Thank you. I have found them very, very helpful. And so have we found your reflections, various systems? Thank you. I was wondering if you could help me with a confusion I've had for many years on just a topic and the activity of meditation. Meditation. Yes. I'm always confused about what exactly... what exactly I'm supposed to do and how that differs just from thinking. It's up to you. Thinking can be a form of meditation to some degree. The idea, however, most generally representative of meditation is to allow yourself not so much analysis, but more the idea of a seemingly detached observation. What you may most colloquially refer to as daydreaming. Now, have you ever daydreaming? daydream. And in the daydream state, do you not feel a little more floaty, shall we say, than when you are actually sitting there thinking about something in a very precise way? Yes. Then allow yourself to recognize that in terms of what you generally call meditation, that energy moved in the direction of the daydream is more precisely representative. You follow me. Yes, but I don't see myself as an observer. observer or what was the word you used is detached? Did you use that word? The idea of detachment is to actually know that you are attached to everything. That is true detachment. Detachment is not actually separating yourself from anything. True detachment is actually encompassing everything. When everything is absolutely on the same level and equal, then nothing gets an undue proportion of attention. And to many, individuals that may seem like a detachment, but it is actually a very centered state of awareness and peace. So, allow yourself to simply expand in your imagination. Expand, expand, expand, expand, until you feel, in whatever way is correct for you, in whatever methodology and by whatever terminology you feel so appropriate, expand until you are a bubble that contains everything. Then simply explore all of the different things you contain. That's meditation. Mm-hmm. You follow me. Yes, and if I choose to focus on one of those aspects and that would be meditating on that particular aspect. That is all right. Okay. Okay. All that clarifies. Even analysis can lead you back into a form of meditation. It is also a form of meditation in and of itself. Let us put it this way. Almost any particular state of consciousness can be one that you can ascribe to a form of meditation as long as you do not bring worry into it. You following. Simply observing, focusing, exploring, examining, no matter how minute can be a form of meditational focus. The worry that often comes with many of the ways you analyze things, that is what is not truly in that sense meditative. So, similar state of awareness but without the worry.

state of consciousness can be one that you can ascribe to a form of meditation as long as you do not bring worry into it. You following. Simply observing, focusing, exploring, examining, no matter how minute can be a form of meditational focus. The worry that often comes with many of the ways you analyze things, that is what is not truly in that sense meditative. So, similar state of awareness but without the worry. All right. Great, I could do that. Yes, thank you. Thank you very much. Getting.