The Paradox of Meditation (Excerpt)

https://adyashanti.org – By striving for stillness during meditation, we can miss the natural sense of quiet that is already available. Our efforts at finding peace actually conceal its innate eternal presence. Adyashanti suggests an approach to this paradox that encourages a state of balance in meditation.

Excerpted from Aug 29, 2020 Online Intensive, “The Boundless Awakened Heart”: https://bit.ly/3kPPrgF

Quotes from this Video:

“So often when we learn how to meditate, we think we’re supposed to be exercising a technique that brings us to a quietness.”

“If we’re not trying to control so much, a lot of the meditative experience is actually naturally occurring.”

“If we think that peace and stillness, or spaciousness, or presence are things that we need to make happen, then our meditation can actually be concealing these very qualities.”

“Our mind can jump away from the always and already existing meditative state and go into a thinking pattern.”

“You find balance intuitively in the same way that you found balance when you learned to walk or ride a bicycle.”