"the journey of the self, through the self, to the self"
OM SHIVOHAM
Yoga with Greg
Meditation
Let me here give you two of my favourite quotes that tell you more about meditation than I ever could:
"The soul wants to go back to its source. This is the most fundamental law of nature, of creation and destruction: everything must return to its source. Our body may be temporary, our minds conditioned, our consciousness a wary traveller, but our soul knows where it belongs. (...)
Meditation is going home. It is going back to your source, where you belong, so that you are no longer what people tell you who you are, or what the world has made you to believe, or even what you think of yourself. (...)
It is to discover your original home, without the furniture of jealousy, covetousness, envy, hatred. A home with no walls of ego and anger. A place where your soul rests in peace, where consciousness flows unimpeded like the gentle Ganges murmuring on a sunny day. "
(Om Swami - A million thoughts)
"When the mind has been trained to remain fixed on a certain internal or external location, there comes to it the power of flowing in an unbroken current, as it were, towards that point. This state is called Dhyana (meditation)"
(Swami Vivekananda)
Several meditation techniques are being used in different traditions and cultures. None of them are better or worse, only a different kind of approach. There are many ways to Samadhi and we shall not classify them. Our job is rather to choose our own path and keep walking on it peacfully. In my lessons I can introduce you to some of these techniques, or help you deepen your practice: gazing meditation, breathing meditation, chakra meditation, mantra meditation (chanting), japa meditation, sound meditation, 3rd-eye meditation, mindfulness meditation, guided relaxation and meditation.