Meditation, in its modern hypostasis and understanding , is a training of volitional attention management based on breathing. It came to us from Buddhism and Indian yoga, which also indicated its role in” spiritual development ” (whatever it was).
Although the term itself is Latin, it has a common root with “medicine”, for example. A means simply “thinking”, “pondering” and other terms in this meaning. Ancient philosophers, in particular the Stoics, also highly appreciated the importance of meditation, but not in terms of contemplation of breathing, namely, in purposeful, concentrated thoughtful reflection on certain topics at certain periods of time.
Overall strengthening of “emotional health” (stress tolerance, more precisely);
Increased self-awareness;
Development of attention control – in particular, the range of the period of controlled concentration;
Can (it is not yet clear how, but yes) prevent or reduce memory deterioration with age;
Generating positive moods (benevolence, gratitude, compassion), with certain modifications of the technique;
Support in overcoming addictions;
Improved sleep;
Pain management (similar to hypnotic analgesia);
Reduction of high blood pressure; There are more extensive lists, but the general topic is clear.
It is important to understand that with all these” sweets ” – meditation is not effective, can not be used and is not designed for:
Treatment of serious mental disorders (by itself, as a separate exercise);
Achieving “happiness” and life well-being (sitting in meditation and watching your breath – you just sit and train to watch your breath, body and mind. No other useful skills can be developed like this and no other achievements can be achieved);
Naturally-solving interpersonal problems and so on. In short, meditation can help in stress management, psychophysical recovery, development of attention and introspection, through which you can manage other mental functions, and act as a supportive practice in complex solutions. Not a “panacea”, but a very decent exercise.
The meaning of life is to know God and achieve Divinity by refining oneself in the emotions of love. The growth of the emotions of love goes through interaction with one's own kind and the refusal to cause harm and pain to all living beings. * “God is Love” – so taught Jesus Christ. And in order to get closer to the Creator, we must also develop ourselves as love. We are talking about multi-faceted emotions of “heartfelt” love, which are quite possible to arbitrarily produce in yourself by methods of mental self-regulation. You need to learn to live in these emotions all the time. The esoteric growth of one's consciousness and emotions of love is called meditation, and it is important to switch to a slaughter-free diet out of compassion for animals. Each of us in our personal evolution has already passed through many incarnations – before getting into the current human body. And now our task is to make every effort to become worthy of Merging with the Creator in His Abode. We must make every effort to find our own Divinity and merge with It, as well as help others to do so. And to Divinity we go through: – development of love for all living beings and for the Creator, – refinement of oneself as a consciousness in order to master more and more subtle aeons-further and further from hell, closer and closer to the Abode of the Creator. Yes, individual consciousness has the ability to increase (grow) quantitatively. It grows and simply increases with the increase in the size of physical bodies – from incarnation to incarnation. And at the human stages of the evolution of the individual soul, this is also facilitated by an intensive lifestyle in any field of application: in physical activity, intellectual creativity, art, etc. But there are also special (esoteric) methods of accelerating the quantitative growth of consciousness, which consist in meditative training, especially in combination with special sports loads and at special “places of strength”. At the same time, it is only necessary to remember that an increase in the size and strength of the gross consciousness will form a devil out of a person and predestine him to a very stable, “stable” life in hell. The value is only the growth of the refined consciousness. He is Love. We must also become Love, that is the meaning of our life. In order to really direct our gaze-the gaze of consciousness-in the direction of God, to strive to merge with Him-we must first find inner peace. There are different techniques for doing this. You can start with hatha yoga, Chinese dynamic gymnastics tai chi chuan or other similar systems. But radically, the problem is solved by moving the concentration of consciousness out of the head — into the anahata (the area of the chest that produces emotions of love, called the spiritual heart), and then expanding the spiritual heart beyond the body in subtle and subtlest spatial dimensions. It is also important to understand that you need to be able to bring yourself to a state without thoughts, to a state of rest, when the inner attention is always in the chest, where you feel warm. There is an exercise for gaining clairvoyance (the “third eye”, which was mistakenly shifted to ajna by translators) and producing emotions of love: we learn to imagine our head in the chest (you can imagine your smile in it) and learn to look with this head, from the chest…in different directions (in some mystical literature, there is such a thing as” displacement of the assemblage point”, this is the movement of the concentration of consciousness in anahata). Many people confuse meditation and physical exercises of hatha yoga… (hatha yoga teaches concentration, but nowadays hatha yoga is most often taught to students who eat meat — and this only harms them, because it increases their roughness of consciousness, … few teachers warn about this). * To understand why we need to improve and find peace (one of the qualities of God that we need to master), I will describe what the Meaning of life is. The essence of everything in the universe is THE EVOLUTION of UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS The universal space is populated by living, self-aware energies called souls, spirits, and consciousnesses. Among them, there are small energy “clots”, there are more, there are very large ones. But there is also the largest Consciousness that occupies the entire boundless universal space – this is God the Father, Who is also called the Creator, Jehovah, Yahweh, Sabaoth, Allah, Ishvara, Tao, the Original Consciousness, Adibudda, etc . The life of God is Evolution, i.e. the continuation of the positive development of His Universal Organism. It is for this very purpose that He creates material worlds in one part of the universe, then in another, and then on the planets suitable for the existence of organic bodies at a given time, settles in the latter insignificant particles of His energy – so that these particles grow and eventually merge into Him, enriching Him with themselves. Their growth begins on the crystal lattices of minerals, continues in the bodies of plants, then animals, then people. Each of us in our personal evolution has already passed through many incarnations – before getting into the current human body. And now our task is to make every effort to become worthy of Merging with the Creator in His Abode. God didn't create all of His Creation for us humans. But for My own sake. We humans are not self-existent. They are not objectively separated from God. On the contrary, we are in It, and our separateness from It is only our stupid illusion, which leads us to our troubles. We are completely under His control. He grazes us like His flock, sends us to grow and mature again and again in the” pastures ” of the Earth. Here, in interaction with others like ourselves and with objects of the material world, we acquire and strengthen certain of our qualities — good or bad. We must learn to see, hear, and obey our Shepherd and love Him. And someone learns it with joy, and someone tries to hide from It, pretends that It does not exist at all, but there is me! “Wo, how healthy, strong, and beautiful you are! Humble, kind, loving, intelligent-He brings up with affection and quickly brings them closer to Him, lets them in. The rest continue to be reincarnated and reincarnated into new bodies. And between incarnations, they live for a long time among similar souls — in those states of consciousness to which they were accustomed during their life on Earth. God continues to take care of us — until the “end of the world” — constantly reminding us of Himself through His Messiahs and prophets, through the holy books. It also shows us what it's like to be evil, deceitful, mean, lovers of other people's goods-it shows us people-criminals, ferocious animals… Through this, he wants to explain to us what it means to be in pain, fear, anger, and being robbed… “to teach you not to do it to others.” People call this the “law of karma” — the law of cause-and-effect relationships in our destinies. According to this principle, He will “beat” us until we are cleansed of our vices, until we become what He wants us to be — gentle, caring, altruistic, absolutely honest, without importance and arrogance, not capable of anger, violence. Violence-except to protect other people's good from someone else's evil violence. He is Love. To become part of It, or even close to It, we must also become Love. Conclusion. The term meditation can be defined as a person's personal efforts to develop himself (as a soul, consciousness) in the areas of proper functioning of his own emotional sphere, refinement and quantitative growth of consciousness, as well as direct knowledge of God in the Aspects of the Original Consciousness, the Holy Spirit and the Absolute — and Merge with God. The evolutionary development of each person consists of three main closely interrelated components: intellectual, ethical and psychoenergetic. Meditation is the main way to realize, first of all, the third of these components of development. Although it can significantly accelerate growth in two other areas. I will immediately draw your attention to an extremely important rule of spiritual work: complex meditation training should not outstrip the ethical component of each practitioner's development, as well as his intellectual capabilities at this stage of his life! In other words, to engage in complex meditative training is not enough just the desire of a person. But it is necessary to take into account, among many other things, his age — both ontogenetic (i.e., in this incarnation) and psychogenetic (i.e., taking into account the entire foreseeable part of his personal evolution). Therefore, both teachers and practitioners themselves should treat the field of activity under consideration with caution. Although there are meditations that are completely safe and can only benefit everyone, including children. This is-for example, attunement with the harmony and beauty of nature. Also — relevant works of various art trends, including music and vocals, dance, etc. We must accept that success is achieved precisely by our own spiritual efforts, and not at all by participating in rituals, not by the “prayers of the saints”, or by anyone else's prayers at all. At the same time, we will not confuse prayer with meditation (these concepts sometimes overlap). The main meanings of these words are as follows: prayer is a request to God, which often degenerates into begging for earthly goods from God; meditation is precisely the work of consciousness aimed at knowing God, which gives success on this Path if everything is in order with ethics and intelligence. P.S. It is extremely dangerous to engage in serious religious practice without a developed intellect. Such people easily fall prey to false and destructive concepts, such as that one should drink as much urine as possible for spiritual progress, or that” Liberation “is achieved through the complete rejection of all ethical norms and the “spontaneity” of behavioral reactions… These people are not able to distinguish love from lust, tenderness from sweetness, subtlety from rudeness, God from the devil. Thinking, for example, that they hear the voice of God, they submit themselves to the guidance of demons and devils, and find delight in their alleged “personal power”, united with the devil's rudeness. Psychoenergetic work is not for the mentally weak!� ___ For those who want to engage in serious meditations, I recommend viewing the book: “Ecopsychology”, V. Antonov. It provides recommendations for working with the chakras, the main centers responsible for our emotions.
I've been practicing meditation for several years. Properly executed meditation gives joy and peace. Deep meditation gives you superpowers. By meditating regularly, you can achieve an altered state of consciousness, which is interesting in itself. The main thing that meditation gives in my opinion is: self-control, calmness.
The ancient spiritual teaching is based on the deep wisdom that everything in the universe consists of Ching – This is matter, QI – this is energy, SHEN – – – this is spirit. There are thousands of spiritual practices to develop and strengthen these three types of energy. The body is made of matter, energy, and spirit.This or that system of an organism is formed by matter, energy and spirit.
Anyone who starts or has the desire to start meditating should answer a question for themselves. For what? Meditation is a creative process. Only someone who has a long experience of meditation can speak or share the results.Many people will start having fantasies about meditation and start talking about things they don't know.Personally, I can't talk about my successes, they are known to me and belong only to me. The truth is hidden outside pisemen In signs and words do not convey the law To the heart turn inside and back To comprehend yourself and become a Buddha. With respect.
Meditation is a BLESSING for me!!! I've been meditating for twenty years. What can I say ,for me, this is my life.But to get results from meditation, you need to limit yourself in many ways, and this restriction is for the benefit of a person.It's not as simple as some people imagine.Now many people do not even know what it is ,but they advise and convince.To sit down to meditate: first, you need to sit in the “lotus” position, and this is not easy,secondly, you need to learn how to breathe properly, thirdly, you need to eat right and you need to know the philosophy of the East. If this is not observed, it is better to sit on the sofa.In general, meditation is very useful and very difficult as some people think. With respect.
First, the concentration of attention increases. You can not only focus on the selected object longer, but also focus more easily if you are distracted.
Secondly, it improves the psychological state. After meditation, you are at peace, and those who meditate daily for a long time it becomes a character trait (About this and about the scientifically proven effects of meditation in R. Davidson's book “Changed Character Traits”)
Third, it helps to change for the better. If you wanted to quit a bad habit, then meditation can help to loosen it. If you have a goal, but you put it off until later, you can be more aware and focused on completing it. In addition, you can take a different look at some situations and draw important conclusions for yourself.
Meditation, in its modern hypostasis and understanding , is a training of volitional attention management based on breathing. It came to us from Buddhism and Indian yoga, which also indicated its role in” spiritual development ” (whatever it was).
Although the term itself is Latin, it has a common root with “medicine”, for example. A means simply “thinking”, “pondering” and other terms in this meaning. Ancient philosophers, in particular the Stoics, also highly appreciated the importance of meditation, but not in terms of contemplation of breathing, namely, in purposeful, concentrated thoughtful reflection on certain topics at certain periods of time.
But so – what is the specific benefit, you can find here: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/12-benefits-of-meditation#section6
Briefly and in translation:
There are more extensive lists, but the general topic is clear.
It is important to understand that with all these” sweets ” – meditation is not effective, can not be used and is not designed for:
In short, meditation can help in stress management, psychophysical recovery, development of attention and introspection, through which you can manage other mental functions, and act as a supportive practice in complex solutions. Not a “panacea”, but a very decent exercise.
The meaning of life is to know God and achieve Divinity by refining oneself in the emotions of love.
The growth of the emotions of love goes through interaction with one's own kind and the refusal to cause harm and pain to all living beings.
*
“God is Love” – so taught Jesus Christ. And in order to get closer to the Creator, we must also develop ourselves as love. We are talking about multi-faceted emotions of “heartfelt” love, which are quite possible to arbitrarily produce in yourself by methods of mental self-regulation. You need to learn to live in these emotions all the time. The esoteric growth of one's consciousness and emotions of love is called meditation, and it is important to switch to a slaughter-free diet out of compassion for animals.
Each of us in our personal evolution has already passed through many incarnations – before getting into the current human body. And now our task is to make every effort to become worthy of Merging with the Creator in His Abode.
We must make every effort to find our own Divinity and merge with It, as well as help others to do so.
And to Divinity we go through:
– development of love for all living beings and for the Creator,
– refinement of oneself as a consciousness in order to master more and more subtle aeons-further and further from hell, closer and closer to the Abode of the Creator.
Yes, individual consciousness has the ability to increase (grow) quantitatively. It grows and simply increases with the increase in the size of physical bodies – from incarnation to incarnation. And at the human stages of the evolution of the individual soul, this is also facilitated by an intensive lifestyle in any field of application: in physical activity, intellectual creativity, art, etc.
But there are also special (esoteric) methods of accelerating the quantitative growth of consciousness, which consist in meditative training, especially in combination with special sports loads and at special “places of strength”.
At the same time, it is only necessary to remember that an increase in the size and strength of the gross consciousness will form a devil out of a person and predestine him to a very stable, “stable” life in hell. The value is only the growth of the refined consciousness.
He is Love. We must also become Love, that is the meaning of our life.
In order to really direct our gaze-the gaze of consciousness-in the direction of God, to strive to merge with Him-we must first find inner peace.
There are different techniques for doing this. You can start with hatha yoga, Chinese dynamic gymnastics tai chi chuan or other similar systems. But radically, the problem is solved by moving the concentration of consciousness out of the head — into the anahata (the area of the chest that produces emotions of love, called the spiritual heart), and then expanding the spiritual heart beyond the body in subtle and subtlest spatial dimensions.
It is also important to understand that you need to be able to bring yourself to a state without thoughts, to a state of rest, when the inner attention is always in the chest, where you feel warm.
There is an exercise for gaining clairvoyance (the “third eye”, which was mistakenly shifted to ajna by translators) and producing emotions of love: we learn to imagine our head in the chest (you can imagine your smile in it) and learn to look with this head, from the chest…in different directions (in some mystical literature, there is such a thing as” displacement of the assemblage point”, this is the movement of the concentration of consciousness in anahata).
Many people confuse meditation and physical exercises of hatha yoga… (hatha yoga teaches concentration, but nowadays hatha yoga is most often taught to students who eat meat — and this only harms them, because it increases their roughness of consciousness, … few teachers warn about this).
*
To understand why we need to improve and find peace (one of the qualities of God that we need to master), I will describe what the Meaning of life is.
The essence of everything in the universe is THE EVOLUTION of UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS
The universal space is populated by living, self-aware energies called souls, spirits, and consciousnesses. Among them, there are small energy “clots”, there are more, there are very large ones. But there is also the largest Consciousness that occupies the entire boundless universal space – this is God the Father, Who is also called the Creator, Jehovah, Yahweh, Sabaoth, Allah, Ishvara, Tao, the Original Consciousness, Adibudda, etc
. The life of God is Evolution, i.e. the continuation of the positive development of His Universal Organism.
It is for this very purpose that He creates material worlds in one part of the universe, then in another, and then on the planets suitable for the existence of organic bodies at a given time, settles in the latter insignificant particles of His energy – so that these particles grow and eventually merge into Him, enriching Him with themselves. Their growth begins on the crystal lattices of minerals, continues in the bodies of plants, then animals, then people.
Each of us in our personal evolution has already passed through many incarnations – before getting into the current human body. And now our task is to make every effort to become worthy of Merging with the Creator in His Abode.
God didn't create all of His Creation for us humans. But for My own sake. We humans are not self-existent. They are not objectively separated from God. On the contrary, we are in It, and our separateness from It is only our stupid illusion, which leads us to our troubles.
We are completely under His control. He grazes us like His flock, sends us to grow and mature again and again in the” pastures ” of the Earth. Here, in interaction with others like ourselves and with objects of the material world, we acquire and strengthen certain of our qualities — good or bad. We must learn to see, hear, and obey our Shepherd and love Him. And someone learns it with joy, and someone tries to hide from It, pretends that It does not exist at all, but there is me! “Wo, how healthy, strong, and beautiful you are!
Humble, kind, loving, intelligent-He brings up with affection and quickly brings them closer to Him, lets them in. The rest continue to be reincarnated and reincarnated into new bodies. And between incarnations, they live for a long time among similar souls — in those states of consciousness to which they were accustomed during their life on Earth.
God continues to take care of us — until the “end of the world” — constantly reminding us of Himself through His Messiahs and prophets, through the holy books. It also shows us what it's like to be evil, deceitful, mean, lovers of other people's goods-it shows us people-criminals, ferocious animals… Through this, he wants to explain to us what it means to be in pain, fear, anger, and being robbed… “to teach you not to do it to others.” People call this the “law of karma” — the law of cause-and-effect relationships in our destinies. According to this principle, He will “beat” us until we are cleansed of our vices, until we become what He wants us to be — gentle, caring, altruistic, absolutely honest, without importance and arrogance, not capable of anger, violence. Violence-except to protect other people's good from someone else's evil violence.
He is Love. To become part of It, or even close to It, we must also become Love.
Conclusion.
The term meditation can be defined as a person's personal efforts to develop himself (as a soul, consciousness) in the areas of proper functioning of his own emotional sphere, refinement and quantitative growth of consciousness, as well as direct knowledge of God in the Aspects of the Original Consciousness, the Holy Spirit and the Absolute — and Merge with God.
The evolutionary development of each person consists of three main closely interrelated components: intellectual, ethical and psychoenergetic.
Meditation is the main way to realize, first of all, the third of these components of development. Although it can significantly accelerate growth in two other areas.
I will immediately draw your attention to an extremely important rule of spiritual work: complex meditation training should not outstrip the ethical component of each practitioner's development, as well as his intellectual capabilities at this stage of his life!
In other words, to engage in complex meditative training is not enough just the desire of a person. But it is necessary to take into account, among many other things, his age — both ontogenetic (i.e., in this incarnation) and psychogenetic (i.e., taking into account the entire foreseeable part of his personal evolution).
Therefore, both teachers and practitioners themselves should treat the field of activity under consideration with caution.
Although there are meditations that are completely safe and can only benefit everyone, including children. This is-for example, attunement with the harmony and beauty of nature. Also — relevant works of various art trends, including music and vocals, dance, etc.
We must accept that success is achieved precisely by our own spiritual efforts, and not at all by participating in rituals, not by the “prayers of the saints”, or by anyone else's prayers at all.
At the same time, we will not confuse prayer with meditation (these concepts sometimes overlap). The main meanings of these words are as follows: prayer is a request to God, which often degenerates into begging for earthly goods from God; meditation is precisely the work of consciousness aimed at knowing God, which gives success on this Path if everything is in order with ethics and intelligence.
P.S. It is extremely dangerous to engage in serious religious practice without a developed intellect. Such people easily fall prey to false and destructive concepts, such as that one should drink as much urine as possible for spiritual progress, or that” Liberation “is achieved through the complete rejection of all ethical norms and the “spontaneity” of behavioral reactions… These people are not able to distinguish love from lust, tenderness from sweetness, subtlety from rudeness, God from the devil. Thinking, for example, that they hear the voice of God, they submit themselves to the guidance of demons and devils, and find delight in their alleged “personal power”, united with the devil's rudeness.
Psychoenergetic work is not for the mentally weak!�
___
For those who want to engage in serious meditations, I recommend viewing the book: “Ecopsychology”, V. Antonov.
It provides recommendations for working with the chakras, the main centers responsible for our emotions.
I've been practicing meditation for several years. Properly executed meditation gives joy and peace. Deep meditation gives you superpowers. By meditating regularly, you can achieve an altered state of consciousness, which is interesting in itself. The main thing that meditation gives in my opinion is: self-control, calmness.
The ancient spiritual teaching is based on the deep wisdom that everything in the universe consists of Ching – This is matter, QI – this is energy, SHEN – – – this is spirit. There are thousands of spiritual practices to develop and strengthen these three types of energy. The body is made of matter, energy, and spirit.This or that system of an organism is formed by matter, energy and spirit.
Anyone who starts or has the desire to start meditating should answer a question for themselves. For what? Meditation is a creative process. Only someone who has a long experience of meditation can speak or share the results.Many people will start having fantasies about meditation and start talking about things they don't know.Personally, I can't talk about my successes, they are known to me and belong only to me. The truth is hidden outside pisemen In signs and words do not convey the law To the heart turn inside and back To comprehend yourself and become a Buddha. With respect.
Meditation is a BLESSING for me!!! I've been meditating for twenty years. What can I say ,for me, this is my life.But to get results from meditation, you need to limit yourself in many ways, and this restriction is for the benefit of a person.It's not as simple as some people imagine.Now many people do not even know what it is ,but they advise and convince.To sit down to meditate: first, you need to sit in the “lotus” position, and this is not easy,secondly, you need to learn how to breathe properly, thirdly, you need to eat right and you need to know the philosophy of the East. If this is not observed, it is better to sit on the sofa.In general, meditation is very useful and very difficult as some people think. With respect.
First, the concentration of attention increases. You can not only focus on the selected object longer, but also focus more easily if you are distracted.
Secondly, it improves the psychological state. After meditation, you are at peace, and those who meditate daily for a long time it becomes a character trait (About this and about the scientifically proven effects of meditation in R. Davidson's book “Changed Character Traits”)
Third, it helps to change for the better. If you wanted to quit a bad habit, then meditation can help to loosen it. If you have a goal, but you put it off until later, you can be more aware and focused on completing it. In addition, you can take a different look at some situations and draw important conclusions for yourself.