With concentration and mindfulness, we can influence the input and processing part of our consciousness process. Once we have determined suitable input values and initiated the right program, we only have to wait for the result, the output of our IPO. This consciously waiting for the result, experiencing the output, is my definition of meditation. Meditation is not something you do. Meditation is doing nothing. Therefore concentration and mindfulness are not meditation. Both methods are doing. In doing we control our attention. This requires something to control and therefore something controlling. Meditation, on the other hand, is to be allowed, is pure being. It's an opening, a letting happen. We are not trying to bring about anything, to make a difference or to have a special experience. That is why meditation can be neither good nor bad. We let it happen and it happens because it happens. Mystical experiences are not subject to arbitrary control. We cannot attain enlightenment through practice, not through thought and action. All we can do is nothing. We let go of all thoughts, expectations, wishes, and hopes. We open, we wait, we get picked up. It is like a pull that pulls us into our center. It's like something that in mathematics is called an attractor. Something that pulls us toward it, that everything is moving toward it. It is consciousness that guides us.
When we meditate, we are not looking for the Self. The Self is always within us. It is hidden by our doing, our thinking, acting, and feeling. Like a troubled lake in which we cannot see anything because of all the mud, our mind is also clouded so that we cannot recognize the Self. When we allow the mind to rest, the mud also settles, the fog disappears and in the clarity, the Self appears. We don't have to look for our Self, it's already there. We just have to wait, it'll find us. But not doing and waiting is usually much harder for us than doing something. We are used to being flooded with stimuli. When stimuli are missing, our mind quickly becomes restless and tries to replace the missing external stimuli with internal activity, thoughts, and feelings. It won't be easy to break him of this habit. We do not achieve this through force, energy, and action. Nothing stimulates these activities more than to pay attention to them. Let them come and go, let's stay in the nothing.
Unlike concentration and mindfulness, during meditation, we do not focus our mind on anything, not even the inner world. Instead, we release it, setting the focus on infinity. We change from a narrow focus to an open focus. This is very unusual at first and our mind, which has never been used to silence before, will constantly try to hold on to something, to thoughts, feelings, and emotions. When this happens, as we have learned in our concentration exercises, we let go of it, but do not return to a focused object afterward, but remain in nothingness, in emptiness, in potentiality. It is a meditation method that follows a Buddhist tradition that is thousands of years old. We turn away from matter towards potentiality, away from knowledge towards non-knowledge. The further we get with our meditation, the calmer our mind becomes. A calm mind is the first step to enlightenment. With a calm mind, a state of great alertness, attention, clarity, and stillness is achieved during meditation.
There is not one universal meditation. A meditation technique that is good for one person is not good for another and vice versa. Meditation is not a secret doctrine; it is not a religion and certainly not esotericism. There is no meditation technique that we would have to follow blindly. No matter with which meditation, with which technique, you start, if you meditate regularly, are open to your consciousness, after some time you will find your own, individual meditation. Feeling, experiencing, is the decisive factor, not knowledge and cognition. Do not rely on outside advice, listen to your inner voice. The only rule in our meditation is, therefore, open focus. Regular meditation leads our mind back to the source from which it originated, to our Self. Meditation is not a hobby, no occasional relaxation or concentration exercise, meditation is a way of life.
This article concludes my overview of the methods for influencing our IPO. If we start with the exercises, practice consistently and regularly, we are on our way. On the inside way. With the change of our IPO, our consciousness process, our neuronal structures and thus our consciousness and our life will change. With one less, with another more, with one slower, with one faster. What we encounter on the way and where it can lead us will follow in the next articles.
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