I am very excited to be bringing nondual meditation to Sedona. I have been
inspired and awakened by the wisdom of many nondual teachers such as;
Adyashanti, Gangaji, Mooji, Papaji, and Rupert Spira. The Nondual Awareness Meditation group meets Tuesday's from 7-9 pm in Sedona. To learn more go to: http://www.meetup.com/Sedona-Tantra-for-Awakening-Meetup-Group/
Below is a post about True Meditation from Adyashanti's website.
True meditation has no direction or
goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer. All methods aiming at
achieving a certain state of mind are limited, impermanent, and conditioned.
Fascination with states leads only to bondage and dependency. True meditation
is abidance as primordial awareness.
True meditation appears in
consciousness spontaneously when awareness is not being manipulated or
controlled. When you first start to meditate, you notice that attention is
often being held captive by focus on some object: on thoughts, bodily
sensations, emotions, memories, sounds, etc. This is because the mind is
conditioned to focus and contract upon objects. Then the mind compulsively
interprets and tries to control what it is aware of (the object) in a
mechanical and distorted way. It begins to draw conclusions and make
assumptions according to past conditioning.
In true meditation all objects
(thoughts, feelings, emotions, memories, etc.) are left to their natural
functioning. This means that no effort should be made to focus on, manipulate,
control, or suppress any object of awareness. In true meditation the emphasis
is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as
primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all
objects arise and subside.
As you gently relax into awareness,
into listening, the mind’s compulsive contraction around objects will fade.
Silence of being will come more clearly into consciousness as a welcoming to
rest and abide. An attitude of open receptivity, free of any goal or
anticipation, will facilitate the presence of silence and stillness to be
revealed as your natural condition.
As you rest into stillness more
profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive control,
contractions, and identifications. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state
of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
Learn more about Adyashanti and his teachings at http://www.adyashanti.org/
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