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Why do we meditate? We meditate precisely because this world of ours has disappointed us and because failure looms large in our day-to-day life. We want fulfillment. We want joy, peace, bliss and perfection within and without. Meditation is the answer, the only answer.

The act of meditation is being spacious.

Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.

I meditate. Meditation helps me.

Meditation is a process of getting rid of the whole past, of getting rid of all diseases, of getting rid of all the pus that has gathered in you. It is painful, but it is cleansing, and there is no other way to cleanse you.

You as a salt-being, made of salt, go to fathom the depth of the ocean, and in the process you yourself dissolve. A great maharishi once said that true meditation is like this.

When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.

Simply let experience take place very freely, so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion.

Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is unrealistic to expect results from meditation within a short period of time. What is required is continuous sustained effort.

The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding waves in the infinite ocean of samsara.

Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise and fly and soar.

Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit. _x000D__x000D_You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable. _x000D__x000D_Your only job is to stay in your seat. _x000D__x000D_You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come.

Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.

Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent and experiencer. This has to be carefully removed by living in a state of constant identification with the supreme non-dual Self. Full Awakening is the eventual ceasing of all the mental impressions of being an ego.

The masters say if you create an auspicious condition in your body and your environment then meditation and realization will automatically arise.

Meditation is one of the rare occasions when we're not doing anything. _x000D__x000D_Otherwise, we're always doing something, we're always thinking something, we're always occupied. _x000D__x000D_We get lost in millions of obsessions and fixations. _x000D__x000D_But by meditating-by not doing anything-_x000D__x000D_all these fixations are revealed and our obsessions will naturally undo themselves like a snake uncoiling itself.

The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!

Happiness is your True Nature. _x000D__x000D_Within you is Unimaginable Beauty. _x000D__x000D_Your True Self is Bright and Shining this Moment. _x000D__x000D_Through the clear Realization of the Truth, _x000D__x000D_your Real Self will come shining through.

God dwells in you, as you, and you don't have to 'do' anything to be God-realized or Self-realized,_x000D__x000D_ it is already your true and natural state. _x000D__x000D_Just drop all seeking, turn your attention inward, _x000D__x000D_and sacrifice your ego mind to the One Self radiating in the Heart of your very being. _x000D__x000D_For this to be your own presently lived experience, _x000D__x000D_Self-Inquiry Meditation is a direct and immediate way.