"Gualberto, what can you tell us about guided meditation?" That's another question here... Guided Meditation! What can I tell you about guided meditation? You need to discover the real beauty of Meditation. What does Meditation represent? Your Self. Meditation represents That which You are, here and now, as Pure Consciousness, free from the contradiction created, produced and sustained by thought, within this egoic mind, within this pattern of conditioning.
So, Meditation is the Truth about your Self, the Truth about your Divine Reality. So, presently, at this moment, there is a lot of talk about guided meditation. See, we're... we have to take a very simple look at this.
When you find yourself in front of a new situation, a beautiful sunset, or at the edge of a river, watching the waters going down calmly, the light reflecting on those waters... at that moment, at that instant, at that unusual moment, something happens inside you, as if suddenly, without any explanation or effort on your part, thought is swept out of you, every thought disappears. And in that moment, you are likely invaded by an instant of Silence, of Truth, of Freedom, of Love, of Complicity, of Oneness with Life. I would call it Meditation. And here, guided Meditation but guided by that Supreme Intelligence, by that Divine Intelligence, by that Consciousness, which, ultimately, is Yourself, because You are not a foreign element, separate from Existence.
In truth, You are the basis of all Existence, because You are Consciousness. This Existence, which is Consciousness, is You, and this contact, in this moment, is not with that sunset or that stream; this contact is, in fact, a contact with yourself, with yourself. To me, this is the vision of Real Guided Meditation, when you are open and receptive to this present moment.
The facilitation, perhaps, that you have while being in a park, or in an open field, or at the edge of a river, or on a beach, is because, in that moment, in a way, thought pattern is broken. And then, you get into that state and you don't know how to explain how it happened, because it is really beyond this "me," this "I" that could explain something; because this is really an "invasion" or evasion of this Intelligence, this Consciousness – this Consciousness arising, emerging, appearing... To me, this is the most beautiful and most extraordinary aspect of this so-called "guided meditation."
Being open, receptive and sensitive to Life as It appears in this moment, here and now, opens you to the space for the guidance of Divine Intelligence, completely sweeping away the egoic sense, completely the sense of a separate identity, of a separate "me," and in that moment you are beyond the mind, beyond the ego.
The time will come when you will realize the depth of it, the beauty of it, as you surrender to moments like this, give yourself to moments like this, within a work of attention on yourself.
What I just exemplified for you, this emergence of Meditation, this "guided Meditation," I speak here of Meditation free of a voice leading you to a meditative process; music, perhaps, leading you into a meditative process. Nothing against that... What I'm saying is that Meditation doesn't need, Real Meditation doesn't need a lead on that level.
Can there be a facilitation? Yes, but you need to go beyond that facilitation. You need to discover how to meditate without any external support from music, from an environment where you have to sit, from a voice...
So Meditation... You may be driving your car, you may be talking to someone, you may be writing something, you may be dealing with some situation externally, but internally, psychologically, you are keeping yourself free from identification with memory processes, with thought processes, bringing this so-called "yesterday" to this moment, the "tomorrow" to this moment.
To be psychologically detached from this time created by thought is basically Meditation. And if you can do that by paying attention to yourself here and now, to any thought that arises, to any feeling that arises, emotion arising, sensation arising, you are putting yourself in a condition beyond guided Meditation itself. That's because now you don't depend on being at the edge of a river, facing a sunset, or on a beach or a lake. You are simply in your office, waiting for the dentist, or you are working in your office, as a doctor, your patient, or you are in your office, or in a factory, or in some other activity and, at the same time, you are aware of yourself, aware of every inner movement arising here and now.
So, I have emphasized a lot the importance of the question of Meditation. So, the question of guided Meditation is a base, perhaps, initially for you, a certain facilitation, but what I want to show you is that this guided Meditation happens already, it has always happened to you, at times like these. You always had moments where you realized that the sense of "I," in that instant, was gone and you were likely invaded by a Space, by a Silence beyond the "sense of person." This moment is the moment of the Flowering of the Truth of your Being, of What You Are.
And I want to invite you to go beyond even this need to be on the bank of a river, or on a beach, or in an open field to experience That; or listening to a song, or repeating a mantra... I am talking about the Meditation that is the Flowering of the Truth about yourself, here and now, in this contact with Life as It shows itself, without being confused with thought, with feeling, with sensation.
So Meditation is That; Meditation is You in your Self; Meditation is You in your Divine Nature, in your Real Nature, which is basically Love, Peace, Freedom, Happiness.
That's what we're talking about within these meetings here, in Satsang, on this channel. If it's interesting, if you think it's important for you, subscribe to the channel and leave your "like," and we'll work on it together. OK?
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