{"id":1733,"date":"2018-08-27T15:24:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T15:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/?p=1733"},"modified":"2018-08-09T15:38:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T15:38:51","slug":"whats-new-in-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/meditation\/whats-new-in-meditation","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s New in Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"

I would say: everything. Meditation IS about the new. Even \u2018always the same\u2019 is always new.<\/h3>\n

People have been meditating for ages.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Way before for instance the start of Christianity, or even Judaism. Meditation is ancient.<\/p>\n

Still, new (to many) in meditation is that meditation IS the new itself. At every moment again: the new. I say \u2018the new\u2019 even though meditation is an action.<\/p>\n

\u2018The new\u2019 is an action.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I put it this way to make it a bit disconcerting. Which it is, eventually. Which it better be from the start. If you think \u201cI\u2019m going to meditate again,\u201d then it\u2019s as if you take the same object again \u2013 a statue of Buddha? \u2013 and put it on the same cushion.<\/p>\n

You cannot meditate twice the same meditation.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You cannot even meditate twice the same few seconds<\/em> of meditation.<\/p>\n

Like you cannot eat twice \u2018the same apple\u2019 even though you can eat \u2018an apple\u2019 many times.<\/p>\n

Trying to meditate well is precisely that: not striving to do twice the same. Letting go (your urge of control). Letting come (from inside you) whatever comes. That it\u2019s always so very new (= also \u2018unexpected\u2019) shows that<\/p>\n

your inner landscape is vast.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Actually, it\u2019s extremely vast.<\/p>\n

Meditation serves a good purpose of making contact with this vastness and inviting it to be-more-itself. This way, the meditator as a whole can be more himself and at the same time \u2018grow\u2019.<\/p>\n

This vastness has been intuited by meditators since the beginning. It is now being acknowledged by Western science through scientific experimentations and neuro-cognitive insights. Scientists such as David Eagleman* compare the \u2018vastness of the universe within\u2019 to that outside. We used to think that there were only the visible stars quite nearby. Now we know there are a billion times more stars \u2013 and complete galaxies \u2013 a billion times further away.<\/p>\n

And we don\u2019t yet see the end of it.<\/p>\n

New associations within the vastness are spontaneous, organic<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

like an organism sprouting and growing. A bit like a plant with many roots, each searching its own way. In addition, these \u2018inner roots\u2019 also make many connections to each other to form patterns of all kinds within your vastness.<\/p>\n

The comparison with \u2018organic life\u2019 is of course not even a comparison: Your inner life is natural from a to z.<\/em> There is nothing mechanical about it, although many tend to think of it in that way: the nonconscious being just a number of straightforward instincts and reflexes, or a bunch of Freudian, repressed material that can be brought to consciousness if it were not for something like \u2018repression\u2019. Reality is hugely more complex, as well as plainly different.<\/p>\n

Meditative associations are \u2018original\u2019<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

in the sense that they come \u2018from the source\u2019 \u2013 your nonconscious \u2013 and thus are also fresh and new. They also feel \u2018new\u2019 because to your brain (thus also \u2018mind\u2019) they are. The experience of \u2018newness\u2019 is itself closer to the \u2018origin\u2019 as when you encounter \u2018something new\u2019 in the world outside yourself.<\/p>\n

I acknowledge that this last is not so easy to understand. Maybe you don\u2019t. Unfortunately, it\u2019s also not so easy (for me) to explain.<\/p>\n

I guess it\u2019s an experience that you have to, well, experience. Personally, I feel it very much from inside.<\/p>\n

I guess that mainly, you\u2019ll also have to experience it from inside\u2026<\/p>\n

by meditating.<\/p>\n

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*A very good book \u2013 comprehensible and scientific at the same time \u2013 from David Eagleman is \u2018The Brain – The Story of You\u2019. I absolutely recommend it.<\/p>\n

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