The Nature of Our Mind and Body.
What We can Find ...
When we begin to practice meditation we discover a whole world in ourselves. Although that world is familiar in some aspects, it also contains gifts, treasures, talents and other things difficult to imagine. Few things are more useful and offer more incentive than exploring that inner world. The practice of meditation guides us on a path of growth and discovery. We grow by developing our creative potential and discover in ourselves an unsuspected strength and magic.
Symbolically visualizing that inner world helps to start the journey. One can imagine, for example, a vast plain, the plain of reflections, the inner world of the mind. In that plain there are great universities and libraries, brimming with wisdom and knowledge. There are well-equipped laboratories in which to discover new things. There is also an ivory tower, from which you can explore the environment, built on the border of unknown lands.
There are forests in which we can get lost and confused, or animals, mythical and real, that can scare us. There are deserts in which we feel isolated and alone, and deep canyons into which we can fall, with metal dragons lurking from the bottom. These narrow valleys divide the plain of reflections into hundreds of small kingdoms, many of them isolated from others. In those realms, people do the things that people usually do, animated and apathetic, honest and dishonest, creative and destructive. Some of these people wear masks from people we know, although underneath everyone has their secret face.
The plain of the reflections has a tasty soil. And in that inner world of the mind wonderful crops can be obtained. There are hidden treasures and unknown roads that bring adventures. Although in life we did not do anything else that to explore the plain of reflections, that is, our mental resources and our wisdom. We would not waste time. Anyway, our inner world is something more than that.
Imagine that in the center of that plain there is an immense expanse of water, as big as an inland sea. They are the waters of emotion, the sea of changes. It is a somewhat magical sea, which can be saved and bitter as tears, now versa shaken by a violent storm, now clear and shine with a cheerful wave in the sunlight. In its depths live primitive creatures of the origin of life, which during the storms emerge to the surface to frighten the unwary.
Storms sometimes leave the sea, inland, sweeping through where they pass. The sun can drag the mists that rise over the waters, and let them fall like rain, feeding what grows in the plain. The condition of that sea governs the time of the inner world. Sometimes the sea of change is plunged into a deep calm, its calm waters reflect the stars, and in the midst of that peace, the irresistibly sweet song of the sirens rises to the sky.
In the center of the sea of changes rises a mountain of steep slopes, the impregnable and unexplored core of our being. For most of us it is really the unknowable land, the unknown land. From the distant shore of the plain of the reflections it seems difficult to access the mountain, impossible to ascend it. The summit is hidden behind the clouds and its roots go deep into the earth.
When the sea curls, the mountain is completely separated from the plain. When it subsides, it is possible to approach, and in complete calmness, disembark on the mountain and start the ascent of its steep slope towards the hidden top. Those marine calm, which are infrequent, should last as long as we climb the mountain, because the slightest alteration of its surface will splash the mountain, it will make us lose balance and we will fall down to the water.
But there is another path, magical, up the mountain, in the center of being. All the people and things that we find on this earth constitute an image, another face of us: people, dragons, mirages, abysses, mountains, towers, climate, boil, roads, obstacles, mountains. Everything is a reflection of our secret face. Imagine that each of those images has a bell that rings. Some play softly, others strong, some sound discordant, others with melodious harmony. We propose to match them as we walk through this world, so that they sound unison with clarity.
When that happens, when the discords disappear, when our whole being is one, the note changes and raises the normal auditory spectrum to an intense and full silence. At that moment the plain calms down, the sea completely calms down, the clouds disappear, and the moon rises in the sky, on the mountain. At that moment, from the silent bank, we see a soft path of light shining on the water, an illumination of the spirit, which leads directly to the unknown peak of the mountain. If we venture along the way, we will quickly and effortlessly reach the summit, the place of light. From there you can appreciate the plain of reflections, the sea of changes, the stars of the sky and the depths behind. At that moment we feel the roots of the mountain in the heart, the song of the stars, and we know that we are one with the whole.
Meditation is a way to make the way through that inner world, to discover its true nature and its properties, and to tune the bells so that its unique note changes this world. As a first step of that trip, let's try a simple exercise.
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Great choice of topic and amazing read!
If you would ever post something interesting and would like me to bring some traffic then please let me know (mention me or send memo). I will do my best to show my support :)
Do you do meditation yourself? How many years already? ps. did you ever hear about "Wim Hof breathing method"?
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Piotr
Hello my friend @crypto.piotr how are you.? Thank you very much for your support daily, of course in my next post you will be present, thank you very much ... !!
Yes, meditation is incredible, knowing yourself, and making the body work much better, is the best .. !!! Not much time yet ... I can say that I am still a beginner, and I can not understand meditation well ..
About ºººWim Hofººº I do not know much, only a friend of mine told me very little about the breathing technique, it sounds fascinating and I know that it is very efficient and very powerful at the same time for the body ...
I will try to learn something and make a post about ºººWim Hofººº more ahead .. It would be incredible also to be able to achieve that technique .... !!!
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Thank you for your kind and mature reply. I really appreciate and value your comments a lot.
That would be great. Perhaps you could contact me via email once you will have it ready (before you publish it) and then I would allocate some time to help and promote your post with larger audience?
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Whenever you publish something around thursday/friday then send me memo with link. I will read it, drop some comment and upvote and if I will have a chance then I will bring some traffic to your publication or resteem it.
The thing is that this weekend I already schedulled some work and I will promote 2 other people content. So this weekend I won't be able to help much.
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Piotr
Hey my friend @crypto.piotr don´t worry about that, it is ok for me, not problem..
Next time I´ll let you know before posting again,
I know you are helping many people. So, that´s ok don´t worry ...!!!
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I find this very well I recognize myself very much in this. meditation if you do that well then that is! the gateway to everything!
Thank you so much @eddie006
It is a pleasure for me, and thank you so much for sharing with me your results...
Yeah, meditation make your mind and your body stronger and block your mind for bad things...
Meditation Is a lifestyle, if you feel well, you will be in peace completely...!!!
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Yes meditation can you relieve pain you eliminate angts but also bring you to another world in you brings back hundreds of years and certainly the key to retirement of your mind to another place to be able to view and your body and mind come me e good in balance but what I do to the Council is that beginers that they do this under guidance. When too far by store only of the meditation may result in damage to the person still doesn't know what he's doing myself am parranormaal begaaft and use the meditation ica the power of mother earths
thanks a lot for your amazing comment, that´s really incredible...
Thank you so much for your great recommendations @eddie006
the reason that meditation at a pupil can deliver damage is easy your mind can see you as a scale that you don't have the 50% should be empty spirit he!
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If one is only concerned with meditation as a beginner and one stores too far! Then it is possible that another spirit takes possession of the person yes then the game out! and you are no longer help! then you're so split! You can something like that but better for coming through! a second person who at the same time Not with meditation is busy and you on time from the meditation to wake up They can jus a alarm clock in the beginning 5 minutes if one is far with meditation then, than hi whil not respond on anything even if he does the nude then the person really in trance
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