| Seeklight's mission is to promote enlightenment
to all seekers regardless of their religious or spiritual background
and affiliation. We invite everyone whether Christian, Hindu,
Muslim, Buddhist, born-again, agnostic whatever. Our common bond
is that we each have our personal definition of God and through
the vehicle of meditation we can find unity within our diversity
as we seek to return home to the heart of God. No one is left
behind or outside the circle of God's love in It's multitude of
expressions.
You
don't have to change your religion or spiritual principles in
order to meditate. Meditation is a natural form of going within
to find the ultimate peace and joy of God's love. This simple,
but powerful, practice is a lost art in the Western world and
we at Seeklight are attempting to bring these skills back to
America.
Ultimately, Seeklight's mission is to bring together
people of all walks of life not for something as simple as relaxation,
but to literally save the world by helping each of us learn
how to listen to God, reconnect with our divine nature, and
recognize each other for the divine beings we are.
Though our seminars, we have a variety of teachers
from around the world and from different spiritual disciplines
providing their insight and wisdom with the greatest love and
compassion. These teachers have worked with countless individuals
from prison inmates to world leaders knowing that as each of
us steps on the path of enlightenment, the world benefits enormously
and is uplifted forever.
We hope to see you at one of our seminars, whether
you understand the concept of meditation or not. The principle
of Love is universal and all encompassing. And that is what
each of us will discover beyond our wildest dreams. It is simply
a miracle. Seeklight is all about supporting you in your desire
to learn who you truly are. We know you are a miracle. Now discover
it for yourself.
MEDITATION
AND YOU
Always remember
that the full extent of meditation and yoga is discovered when
one adopts it as a comprehensive lifestyle and spiritual discipline.
This can only happen through practice and more so through the
subtle mental and spiritual practices. The physical practices
are meant to allow the body to become subtle to experience and
adjust to the important mental and spiritual approach. Mental
stamina is provided through yogic ethics (Yama and Niyama) and
other mentally uplifting things for expanding the mind, while
spiritual well-being starts with meditation.
For thousands of years, meditation has provided human beings
with a powerful tool for unlocking the vast potentials of the
mind; a doorway into the inner recesses of the Self. Meditation
is an exercise that develops the mind.
Meditation offers the key to self-discovery. One starts by learning
a simple and effective meditation technique that you can practice
at home.
From there it is possible to learn your own personal meditation
technique taught by a competent teacher and to advance to more
particular forms of meditation
On becoming more adept or on the strength of one's desire to
learn an in-depth meditation process, the person is guided through
the steps of meditation, explaining how it works and how it
affects the mind when they learn their own personal method based
on a scientific and psychological foundation. This is taught
by trained teachers who have dedicated their time and life to
uplifting society through teaching meditation and doing social
service. By practice one overcomes any difficulties that may
arise during those initial weeks. Actual practice is vitally
important. After some time you will regularly and successfully
continue meditation on your own, even without having to remind
yourself - it will come naturally and be
part of your lifestyle.
Here's how meditation can help you with your personal growth:
- it can put you in touch with your real feelings and balance
your emotional life;
- it can help you become less fragmented inwardly and more whole
and real;
- it can help you understand and accept yourself without role-playing
for the sake of social dogma;
- it can help you become more able to empathise and communicate
with and help others.
And if you already have no difficulties with any of that, meditation
will surely awaken an even deeper sense of self that makes you
aware that you're part of a larger Infinite whole - and indeed
there is no difference. This is actually part of the moral principles
of yoga (ie to see the Cosmic essence in all things, devotion
to a higher principle of life) which are all embracing, encouraging
you to seek kinship and participate in the world through service,
use of right words, clean environment and attitudes, not intentionally
harming living things, not stealing, and reducing one's luxuries
so that all people on this planet are co-operatively able to
be provided with the basic necessities of life. At the same
time you have mental ease and can properly understand things
from a spiritual nature.
Meditation is a wonderful means of psychological integration.
The realisation to be achieved is that there is only the One,
who is the basic factor of all the diverse kinds of vibrational
manifestations in the universe. This is not unachievable. It
is encapsulate in the following
paragraph:
"Train yourselves in the ideal of the lily, which blossoms
in the mud and has to keep itself engaged in the struggle for
existence day in and day out, parrying, bracing, and fighting
through the shocks of muddy waters and forces of storms and
squalls and sundry other vicissitudes of fortune and yet it
does not forget the Moon above. It keeps its love for the Moon
constantly alive. Prima facie however, it is but a most ordinary
flower.
There is nothing extraordinary about it. Still this most ordinary
little flower is in a romantic tie with the great Moon. It has
kept all its desires riveted to the Moon. Similarly, maybe you
are an ordinary creature - maybe you have to pass your days
through the ups and downs of your worldly existence - still
don't forget that Supreme Preference. Keep all your desires
inclined towards that Entity. Always keep yourselves merged
in the thought of the Great. Go deep into the mood of that Infinite
Love. By this your worldly occupation will not be hampered in
any way."
- Anandamurti
To train the mind development of ethics / morality is required
because before moving you should decide how you are going. Morality
develops proper use of your mind and organs and is necessary
to the practice of spiritual meditation and if mind is to go
beyond layers of distortion, so that it is able to be concentrated
and focused during meditation.
When people are goaded by material objects of desire alone,
they are eaten away by frustration and disappointment, and this
can become a serious health
hazard. Frustration consumes them from the inside out. This
defective
psychology, teaches people to look upon the temporal as permanent,
and people sometimes knowingly, sometimes unknowingly, run after
mirages and waste their valuable lives in great frustration.
However, the awareness developed through meditation and the
realisation that one's mind has higher aspirations is maintained
through meditation and this does not get distorted. It is fundamentally
expansive and universal. It is an depth and wonderful field
of practice.
Obviously, the whole of meditation and yoga cannot be taught
in one lesson.
A firm grounding in meditation comes from practice and being
taught the right method. There should be no charge for what
is fundamental to higher human existence when learning meditation,
as meditation itself is considered the birthright of all.
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