Meditation Clouded By Modern Western Romanticism

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The history of meditation has become clouded by modern western romanticism. People forget that meditation is part of every culture. It always has been and it always will be. As long as there are people seeking truth and inner knowledge there will be meditation.

All religions focus on meditation in one way or another. All great women and men have practiced some form of introspection or contemplation. That is meditation.

Meditation is the process of stilling the mind so that one can receive inner guidance from the deep internal resources that we all possess. Whatever you may call those internal resources is purely up to you. You may call it God, you may call it the universe or the cosmic, you may even call it the Goddess or the Master within. …show more content…

Of course it is not about getting a messiah complex. The most important person here is you. So you become that still balanced and focused individual on your own behalf. What other people do is their business.

Like Dr. Demartini says in the Secret: When the voice within becomes louder than the voices without then you have woken up. That is the point of meditation. And the history of meditation is that it has always been central to the seeker's journey. What I mean by seeker is those who seek to live life to the full and to share in the adventure that is life and living. Meditation not only assists in the process of seeking truth, but also assists in changing the seeker into a finder.

That is where the history of meditation has become a little bit clouded. Meditation's origins reach all the way back to the original mystery orders of the ancient world. Within these orders people trained to become finders of truth and knowledge. No ancient sage, mystic or priestess said to her or his friends: I need to take a break so I can find myself. Why? Because they were continually in contact with