The 5 levels of Meditation ~ from Chanting to focusing on the breath and to eventually ‘Just Being’
Meditation is a vast and vague subject. With the below writeup, considering my intense experience with various techniques of meditation, i attempt to define/draw out the various levels of Meditation a seeker goes through. Hope this becomes a convenient guide for new and old Meditators to experience and understand Meditation in greater depth.
Complaining strengthens ego ~ Eckhart Tolle
“The ego loves to strengthen itself by complaining—either in thoughts or words—about other people, the situation you find yourself in, something that is happening right now but “shouldn’t be,” and even about yourself.” –Eckhart Tolle
Turmoil ~ Osho
“What are your thoughts except ripples on a lake? What are your emotions, your moods, your sentiments? What is your whole mind? – just a turmoil. And because of this turmoil you cannot see your own nature. You go on missing yourself.” -Osho
You are not it ~ Adyashanti
“Whatever you think you are, that’s not it.” ― Adyashanti
Suffer ~ Adyashanti
“When we believe what we think, when we take our thinking to be reality, we will suffer.” ― Adyashanti
Let go of all ideas ~ Adyashanti
“Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?” ― Adyashanti
Awareness ~ Jeff Foster
“Just as the ocean allows every wave, Awareness allows every thought and feeling.” – Jeff Foster
‘Nothing’ can make you happy ~ Jeff Foster
“Nothing can make you happy until Nothing can make you happy.” – Jeff Foster
Problems are just thoughts ~ Jeff Foster
“All your problems are just thoughts. And thoughts are not a problem.” –Jeff Foster
Emptiness comes as a sunset ~ Krishnamurti
Emptiness comes as a sunset comes of an evening, full of beauty, enchantment, and richness; it comes as naturally as the blossoming of a flower. — Krishnamurti
Let your thoughts be ~ Papaji
“Keep quiet. Don’t touch the thoughts. Let them be.” – Papaji
Self is beyond ~ Ramana Maharshi
“The absence of thought does not mean a blank. there must be one to know the blank. knowledge and ignorance are of the mind; they are born of duality. but the self is beyond knowledge and ignorance. it is light itself.” – Ramana Maharshi
Work out on your own salvation ~ Buddha
“Work out on you own salvation, Do no depend upon others.” – Buddha
Roots ~ Rumi
“Maybe you are searching among the branches for what only appears in the roots.” – Rumi
It matters only that you love ~ John Lennon
“It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love” – John Lennon
Miracle ~ Osho
Meditation means: Remaining unrelated with your thought process. Utterly unrelated, cool, calm. Watching whatsoever is passing. And then a miracle happens.- Osho
Meditation make you more ‘You’ ~ David Lynch
The thing about meditation is: You become more and more You. – David Lynch
Life isn’t as Serious ~ Eckhart Tolle
Life isn’t as Serious as the mind makes it to be – Eckhart Tolle