Why Meditate?

Why Meditate? Why is Yoga & Meditation soThe mind wants to experience this. But to recognize it,
important to your personal development? If you live init must have already experienced it. So a problem
the material world, and as a consequence your mindpersists, because what one thinks is the limitless or the
lives in the material world, then nothing exists butsupreme consciousness is just a further projection of
matter, which is thought, which makes up the contentthought.
of your consciousness. If the mind lives there, thenSo we accumulate a lifetime of experiences and
there must be fear, stress and anxiety, because therethoughts, and these experiences and thoughts become
is nothing else in the material world but the search forus. We are the accumulation of a lifetime of
material security, pleasure and permanence. Whereexperiences and thoughts.
there is this requirement or demand placed upon us,Meditation is that state where there is no experience,
then there must be fear, stress and anxiety. So thenwhere there is no element of time, of the past or
what is one to do about it? How can we move awayfuture, where there is no sense of self. This implies no
from this existence where fear, stress and anxiety aredesires or searching for some state of security, of
permanent fixtures, towards a life of total freedom, joypleasure, or super-consciousness or whatever,
and tranquility?because these all occur in the future, and are therefor
To understand what to do we must go into theof time. Being of time, these thoughts, all thoughts are
question of meditation. What is Meditation? Whylimited, prisoners of the function of time. Being limited,
Meditate?thoughts must be discarded to ever know a state
Meditation means the emptying of the content ofbeyond time. A state beyond the mundane.
consciousness. Only then can the mind be totally quiet.Meditation is the state where the mind is empty of
And ones mind must be totally quiet to free up thetime, and will and desire. Which implies the ending of all
energy necessary to see clearly without the illusions ofthought. Which implies the ending of the division of the
the mind. So let's explore this statement further. Howself from everything else. You are one with everything.
do you empty the content of consciousness?There is no longer a me and you, or a this or that. All
By consciousness we refer to our awareness as adivision is gone.
human being of our environment and to all of ourSo Why Meditate, because through Yoga & Meditation
experiences, including our thoughts and dreams. Ouryou can find direct relationship and perception with
awareness of our self.what is, complete awareness of everything that is
We look at the mountains, the lake, the sky, and wehappening in the present moment. Not awareness
marvel at their beauty. And we recognize this beautyclouded by past experiences and your desires for
because we have experienced the beauty of thefuture experiences or by your sense of self. You
mountains in the past. This recognition can only existbecome empty of all of this. You have then emptied
because we have some relationship to it in the past.the content of your consciousness. Only then can you
We have had experiences of every kind, and thoughthope to achieve any everlasting peace and prosperity.
always demands more and better experiences,Only then can you be free of pain and suffering, and
including experiencing other states of mind, or of otherfind total freedom.
dimensions. We are fed up with the narrow and limitedThere are so many secrets that Yoga and Meditation
experiences of life, they are boring and senseless, sowill reveal to you. There are so many ways that Yoga
we look for the limitless, for the supremeand Meditation can make your life easier and more
consciousness.fulfilling.