Advaitacentrum

Learning to Meditate

Recognizing yourself and the world as Openness

This book offers a guidance for learning to meditate for beginners and for practitioners who wish to begin again.  The starting point is the spontaneous meditation, which is what everyone does now and then.  This can develop into a further increase in awareness. The 'standard mediation', with attention on the rotation of breath in the abdomen is further used in order to become better acquainted with processes in the mind and forms of phenomena in the mind.

First comes the beginning situation with an examination of the already existing knowledge of meditation and its goal, then the most important principles of meditation follow: going into yourself and positioning yourself within, quieting your mind, seeing your own situation and your true nature more clearly, letting your reality transform, surrendering yourself.

A separate part is formed through the preparation for meditation.  Finally attention is given to the relaxed concentration of attention, to the further development of the meditation and its integration in daily life. The approach remains practical.  Exercises are regularly given, but these are focused on a better insight into your own mind. In the clarification and expansion of your own aware being-sphere there comes a moment when the recognition of the depth of yourself as Openness, previous to all forms, breaks through.

Reviews

‘… The terminology is never dubious and the exercises that are described here remain effective.’

Tijdschrift voor Yoga [Magazine for Yoga] (Full article is in Dutch)