spirituality beyond meditation techniques 
                    

Question:  Why do you press us so much about questioning everything and freeing the mind of time through meditation?

Adonis:  Yes, we must question meditation and everything that concerns the human mind and will.  That is the intelligent thing to do.  Surely, if you look you will truly find out.  The only thing is; you must be as subtle as a snake and as watchful as a hawk.  For all the world religions, all knowledge and beliefs can only corrupt the mind and none can bring freedom within.  Their very nature is to enchain you in ignorance and fear.

When you say it will take time, it is an interesting point.  Although it is not an overnight event, there is no time involved at all.  One must free the mind of time, which is at the heart of meditation.  To discover the timeless, I must be free of all time and all knowledge.  Can you do that?  Can you free yourself of all that you know?  Truth is the unknown.  The knower can never find it no matter how much knowledge one accumulates.  In the realization that the seeker can never find what it is looking for is not a defeat but surrender into understanding.  When at once the mind sees clearly it cannot enter the unknown it discovers it has only one movement it can make.  It must come to an end, which is death.  in fact, meditation is psychological death of the self. 

Now, when you ask is there a method to bring the mind into stillness, into quietness, I wonder does that question have any validity.  The first thing I would want to understand is; can the mind actually be still.  I mean, is there a state of quietude in which the noise of ones head is not?  Do you understand the question so far?  We are just being very curious.  We are eexploring into meditation patiently so that we do not miss anything.  So we are asking; is there a method, a way or a particular formula that can bring about silence within ones being.  Perhaps, the mind can or can not be quiet, we do not know.  All we are doing is probing into it gently, subtly. 

Spiritual Meditation Beyond Limitations
 

To go deeper, we may ask the question from a different angle.  I wonder why does the mind make noise at all; you understand?  Why does it endlessly ramble on, making noise, thoughts, ideas and images?  Is it out of habit?  And if so, why did the mind fall into such a habit which is rather disturbing?  We are just asking, as we have covered the fact that all our thoughts emerge from the pool of our memory.  We are asking why is it throughout the day and night this noise continues to do so, restlessly.  Is it because we are not aware?  And is this the purpose of spiritual meditation.  It is to probe deep into the movement of the mind and find the cause.  Did we create the problem because we have failed to pay full attention to the workings of our mind that it has gotten away from us?  It is completely out of control.  So, now we are examining, how can we understand the mind and its workings. 

Can the mind be controlled or tamed or forced into being still, being quiet?  So we are looking into this and wondering can the mind be still, effortlessly?  Surely one cannot control the mind.  You are the mind.  How is one part of the mind to tame the other?  All this is the continuity of division and conflict.  For the mind to be clear, I wonder is there a way which does not create any additional conflict to bring about silence.  Any technique or method of meditation can only get into the way of this silence that is beyond mind, so all that is out.  Is that clear?  We are not interested in trying to deceive or trap the mind into a little corner and pretend it is peaceful. 

So, one asks, is there an actual way of no way to bring this about.  I say there is.  But, there has to be a certain understanding that brings it about without effort.  Is there an effortless process that naturally brings about quietude, silence, watchfulness?  Perhaps you we can truly find out what is spiritual meditation. 

Realize that the word meditation has so much attached to it; one can so easily become lost in just trying to find its fundamental meaning.  Only with a very fresh and opened outlook, we are asking ourselves, what meditation is.  The word itself means to ponder, to reflect, to look into and so on.  The art of meditation transcends the word.  Spiritual meditation is the end of all measurement of mind as thought.  



Now will the definition point you into this extraordinary thing called meditation?  As we look into its meaning, there is a certain need to understand ones thoughts and feelings.  Is that what meditation is?  Does meditation mean to understand oneself both inwardly and outwardly?  Not that the inner and outer are two different things.  Let us not assume that.  The microcosm and the macrocosm are one and the same.  Surely, meditation without form, must mean to observe without filtering or analyzing whatever arises in the mind.  It means to just observe.  Can you do that?  Not because I say so, but because we have come to that point in which we see how detrimental all thought with its noise and conflict has continued to bring so much confusion and chaos in the world.  So we are asking, is there freedom from all thought, emotion and imagery of the mind.  We have reached the crossroads and can grasp, at least intellectually for now, that thought is clouding our perception.  We are asking is there the emptying of the mind so that one may see clearly.  Now, are you watching this as we go into it?  We are saying, let us observe, watch all thoughts and emotions as they rise in consciousness and watch them without any desire to suppress or change them.  This is spiritual meditation without form in which we are alluding.  Can you do that?  We are just passionately watching every thought, every intimation of the mind so that the watchfulness will burn it all away.  So, in doing so, we discover whether or not this is the reason the mind is so tethered.  Did the noise of the mind come into being because we failed to give it full attention?  So now, all one is doing is correcting that.  So, we are asking, is this the meditation which transcends the mind as thought and emotion.  And if so, surely meditation without any kind of force must be the most effortless and sacred thing. 

ADONIS ALEXANDER

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