Meditation

What is meditation? I mean really, what is it? Because if this is a meditation site, then it would help if we had some kind of agreed definition of what we are talking about, specifically, on this meditation website.

According to Wikipedia, ‘Meditation is any form of a family of practices in which practitioners train their minds or self-induce a mode of consciousness to realize some benefit.’

Well, for the purpose of this website, Wikipedia could not be more wrong about meditation.
As far as this website is concerned, meditation is the process of you letting go, or dissolving, into spiritual light and sound, to discover your deepest nature. It is a real journey of self-discovery. It is not a process of training your mind.

Your mind is always in a state of perpetual movement, therefore it is always changing. Something that is always changing can never be fully trained. And even if it could, who is it that is training the mind? You see, there is one very big illusion going on.

Now, please answer these simple questions:
1) How did you come into existence?
2) What are you?
3) Where are you going to at death?
4) What are you going to be thinking in 5 seconds time?

If you do not know what you are going to be thinking in 5 seconds time, how can you train anything? There is an illusion going on. You are an effect. You are being done to. The movement of the mind has your attention, but you are not your mind.

Meditation is the process of discovering who, or what, you are. As you have no idea how you came into existence, you did not create yourself, therefore something created you and your mind. You are effect of something, you are an incomplete picture. However, just as you cannot lift yourself up off the floor, you cannot know what you are, trapped within the confines of your mind.

It is possible for you to become aware of, or meditate upon, the energy that caused you, or created you. The access to this energy can be given to you by the process known as Initiation. This is a very simple case of you sitting down and being ‘present’ in your brow center, or third eye chakra. Then an energy is revealed to you, so that you can be aware of the source of yourself, within yourself. By meditating on this energy, you will be increasingly aware of an inner light and an inner sound.
Throughout the history of mankind, this energy has been referred to in different ways. It has been called the light of God or the word of God. Many religions burn candles to symbolize the light and ring bells to symbolize the sound. But all that symbology, ceremony and phoney nonsense has nothing to do with the real light and sound that you can meditate upon within yourself.

Through the process of letting go into the inner light and sound, you will discover for yourself, within yourself, your divine nature. That which exists before thought, that which has never been born and will never die. The journey of self-discovery takes place in stillness. There is no stillness in a mind, therefore, Wikipedia, as wonderful as it is, was wrong about meditation.

To some, the news that Initiation is possible and available, this will be wonderful news. Yet to others, this will sound like heresy and treachery. And that’s the way it is. There is an old saying,
“For him who has perception, a mere sign is enough.
For him who does not really heed, a thousand explanations are not enough.”