Natural Meditation with Lama Surya Das

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NATURAL MEDITATION WITH LAMA SURYA DAS

• Meditation is a natural function of the human
  mind. We are innately clever and curious beings.
  It is a part of being human to ponder about
  ourselves and about life. All societies are
  occupied with meditation and there are numerous
  strategies for practice.  Meditations of all
  kinds work because they all arise out of the same
  body mind spirit system. They all need to depend
  on the natural tendencies of the body and mind to
  experience deeper comfort, happiness and joy.
• Natural meditation is the approach that consists
  in attempting, here and now, to feel the
  benevolent presence of the divine and to behave
  in conformity with the nobility prompted by that
  sensation. A genuine and right meditation is
  constantly simple, natural, universal and easy to
  practice. Natural Meditation is purely, resting
  as natural, choice less, effortless, silent and
  mindfulness.

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Purely means natural meditation is not hard or
difficult. It is a natural, easy way of
being. Resting means you are not endeavoring to
change or get done with anything. You are just
resting, permitting everything to be as it seems
to be. Effortless means you are not attempting
to be anything or anybody, nor getting anything
going or not getting anything happening. You
acknowledge and welcome everything as it may be,
including yourself and your contemplations,
emotions, and encounters. Choice less means you
dont need to pick one thought, feeling, or
experience over another, nor think or making
sense of anything. Silence means resting as the
hush out of which everything emerges and to which
everything returns. Silence is the wellspring of
all there is. Silence is what is. You are this
silence. Mindfulness permits everything to be.
Mindfulness is comprehensive. It is an ultimate
connection of all and everything. You are easy
mindfulness and this is valid under all
circumstances. Just rest as mindfulness, mindful
of itself.
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• STEPS TO PRACTICE
• Sit comfortably either on a seat having an
  opposite back or sit on the floor on a mat, as
  you prefer. Ensure that you are sitting
  comfortably in order to avoid needless actions
  during Meditation.
• 2. Keep your head and back straight but be
  simple, calm and relaxed.
• 3.  Lock your tongue and lips i.e., do not move
  your tongue and lips because Meditation is
  absolutely a mental procedure.
• 4. Now, breathe in and breathe out profoundly
  around 10-15 times i.e. take full breaths.
• 5. Now, close your eyes softly and comfortably
  (dont open your eyes till you finish the
  procedure of Meditation).
• 6. Now, effortlessly and comfortably center the
  consideration of your mind at the spot between
  the eyebrows (i.e., at the connection point of
  nose and eyebrows) and repeat the word Shanti
  again and again only spiritually, without moving
  tongue and lips, with easy and trouble-free
  concentration,  for around 30 minutes.

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