Meditation for Transformation |
“The bottom line is that being a kind, aware, relaxed person doesn’t require the belief in past or future lives, or the law of karma. It has to do with how we conduct ourselves, how we train our own minds. When we do it in the right way, all good qualities start to manifest from our mind, and all negative traits begin to grow less and less. The whole spiritual path in contained within just that.” |
Science is coming to understand this ancient wisdom.
Biological science has come to embrace the Gaia theory as the best evidence understanding of evolution. Gaia theory proposes that all of life and the inorganic aspects of the earth act together in synergy to evolve and create reality as we know it. Modern neuroscience has known for nearly fifty years that the human psyche has two independent streams of consciousness, one verbal and one nonverbal. Split brain research clearly documents this. Nonverbal consciousness is predominantly right brained. It has access to billions of bits of information from the surrounding energy field every second. We access this energy field with our biological sensors such as our retina at the back of the eye. Verbal consciousness then takes a tiny fraction of that information, perhaps 10,000 bits of information per second and creates this illusionary reality we call “real”. We are at an exciting time when ancient wisdom is reuniting with modern science. Michael Sherman, the Executive Director of the Skeptics Society recently wrote in Scientific American that what we call “the self” or our personality is a complex system of information. Dr. Sherman is espousing a concept already embraced by scientific mediums such as Isabelle Chauffeton Saavedra who state that they can access that same information in the timeless spaceless quantum field the ancient sages called “ultimate reality”. |
This is an example of a NDE which nicely describes the timeless spaceless
domain within our psyches that we return to when we transition from this life. The transformational effects of entering into that domain are the same as the transformational effects of meditation. |
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Batman was a fellow inmate who was a very angry man when I first met him. He was so named as he had a large tattoo of a bat on his neck. At age 40, he is a wiry muscular man with an engaging smile, piercing eyes and is a lively conversationalist. He readily admits to a criminal lifestyle. “I sold guns, drugs, scrap metal, any kind of hustle to make money. My boy (meaning his best friend) and I were violent crackheads. I grew up dirt poor in the Southeast. I never felt any love from my parents as they dragged us from town to town. One of my earliest memories is of my Dad killing a man. We were driving down the highway when an old black man cut us off with his truck. My Dad forced him to the side of the road, and when the man got out, my Dad grabbed a two by four, hit him again and again and rolled his body into a ditch”.
I taught Batman how to meditate. He was a thirsty sponge, craved more information on exactly what to do. He practiced daily. Soon he told me that meditation was the only thing keeping him sane. A year later, he was a changed man. He had a slow easy smile. His eyes were gentle and kind. I asked him what caused this to happen. |
This is precisely what the Buddha meant when he wrote: |
“Nirvana does not give the awakened man trance-like immunity, but an inner haven that enables a man to live with pain. . . to take possession of it, to experience a profound peace of mind in the midst of suffering.” - |
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