Millions of people meditate everyday. Thats a fact. Obviously there must be something very positve about the experience of meditation. In this weeks class we (Mark, the class and I) explored what that is, and how Evolutionary Enlightenment looks at meditation.

These days there are so many different approaches, techniques and reasons for meditating. Many people seem to be doing one form or another, or maybe even a combination!

This week, the third course of five, is about the practice and the experience of
meditation. We found that the reason we meditate and context we meditate in, is as important as the practice itself.  In the context of Evolutionary Enlightenment,(interactive model). 

The reason we meditate, and the function of meditation in this teaching, is
to be able to step out of the complexity of the Ego's conditioned view
of life, to discover the Ground of Being , in order to re-emerge as the Authentic Self. The function is to be able to detach from the ego and choose the Authenic Self, by going to that empty ground.

I really love to meditate.  I actually feel the need to meditate, and find it an absolute requirement to have any chance at leading a truley liberated life free from personal, emotional and cultural conditioning, I mean free from Ego, thats the enlightenment context.
I found this class exciting to present and discuss.

My teacher, offers these very simple instructions : Andrew Cohen’s meditation instructions,

A common belief about meditation is that many people meditate and use spirtuality as a way to feel better, the experience of deep well being, bliss and peace is definitely important, and what we spoke a lot about this evening, was the strength and confidence that the practice of meditation can give us.

We spoke about taking the inner position of having no relationship to any thought, feeling or experience. It is quite subtle and deep, but as more people were starting to get it, the energy in the room became more grounded, stronger and deeper. It was tangible that we
were laying the foundation for a deeply engaged life. Andrew said in one of the clips we watched; ‘This will enable you to be free when you need to be, when the chaos of your conditioned mind is right in your face’.

Having spoken about all this we practiced meditation by leaving everything completely alone. As we went deeper into that during the evening, I felt like we were entering a different dimension, a place where it is impossible to recognize ourselves and where we are free to go beyond any boundaries that we always assumed we had.

As our evening concluded, Mark and I noticed our class engaged with each other in a new way. People stayed for a good while in the afterglow of the what we are sharing.

For those of you who are inspired by this and want to find out more,  there is a great CD set for sale on this particular powerful form of meditation that I recommend.

If you want to experience Andrew Cohen personally, come to his 3 day Intensive this spring, which is open to the public, at a reasonable cost, in the Bershire Mountains of Western Massachusetts.

Next week we explore the difference of the ego and the Authentic Self and the advantage of choosing this mysterious compulsion to evolve for Human Deveopment.

Meditate, meditate, meditate!

Kevin

Hello Everyone,

Thanks for stopping by! 

I really find this so exciting to continue to share with you All, the experience of our investigation of our 5 class offering of Introduciton to Evolutionary Enlightenment

Last night was Class #2 - Context is Everything as we began, there was a sense of anticipation in the room.  We started with looking into what the difference between Context and Perspective.

We looked at our own context of living in a postmodern world, which Ken Wilber calls, Boomeritis  (click on and see this video). We did not get a chance to see Boomeritis in class, the conditioned perspecitve we see through in our lives, for the most part today.

The perspective and context we spoke most about is what Andrew Cohen
calls the evolutionary context, the context in which we see ourselves
as a person, a member of a specific ethnic group, of a country, of the
world (!) but mostly, we recognize ourselves to be (part of) the
process of evolution that was initiated with the Big Bang 14 billion
years ago and that led to beings (us) that could recognize themselves
as that process of evolution. Or, to say it simpler, through our eyes
and minds the Universe is starting to know itself.

As the class went on, the palpable sense of wanting to know grew in intensity. We recognized that this is a BIG LEAP, to IDENTIFY with THE UNIVERSE, AS ME, wanting to know itself.

As if consciousness wants so badly to see through our eyes, our Power Point presentation flashed up the Hubble Telescope Image of Andromeda, something about this evolutionary context, we were just marveling, looking back on the cosmos, what WE created 14 billion years ago, and ARE still creating today, through the interiority of humanity (us) who feel the evolutionary impulse, and choose to respond by actively expressing a pure passion, creating the future, egolessly, together!  In other words this is a collective emergence

By the end of the class, our heads were spinning, you cannot really grasp this leap from our present world centric to the ever emerging evolutionary Kosmocentric context and we still have a burning desire to know! 

Next week: Meditation and the Ground of Being.