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Real meaning of doing meditation? | Your answer all here

September 22nd, 2009

 Question: You have been encouraging meditation in your website, I want to know and understand the real meaning of doing meditation? Is it alright to use them just as a tool for relaxation?

 There is a difference understanding of meditation in the east and west. Meditation is originated in the east, in India and subsequently in China through different natures.

If you are living in the east, you may have heard before “this is the way of life”, “this is how we have endured for the whole life” or “this is part of the life journey”. Life journey is part of the sayings passing from the old to the young especially when you have met with some obstacles in the east.

 However, if you are living in the west, you resolve problems quickly, find solutions, find answer when you hit with a problem. This is why meditation has become one of the relaxation techniques and eventually combined with the research in alpha and beta waves that you had read about.

Nowadays, with globalization, cultures had cross-reference and meditation is accepted as one of the ways in therapy for stressful and tension community. If you are living in a develop country right now it is now very common if you hear about Om meditation or Yoga meditation. All these are relaxation techniques that you can use for overcoming your daily stress or problems you are facing.

The question is, how far do you want to go in meditation? Meditation itself is a life journey, is an art of understanding the way of life. Are you ready to live a meditation life, without any ego, any self and nothingness? If you practice meditation as a life journey then you have to be willing to leave your ego, comparison and even the competitiveness behind.

But before these you have to understand how the life around you function, the perspective towards life have to change first. As I have mentioned before, you have to be able understand or experience that “no matter how much you have achieved you are just running in a circle” and in a circle there is “a dot in the centre that is always unmoved”.circledot

I am not saying to leave you family members and goes deep into mountain for meditation. Meditation is just a tool for you to experience the understanding of the circle and the dot. Stay where you are, do what you think deem to do and do not stop searching for yourself and the dot in you.

Since you are into meditation, instead of using it as a relaxation method, try to experience the nothingness, the egoless and you will find your own way.

—The author —

XunLer is a disciple from a great master is practicing meditation since 1999.  Self-searching is the real route of all life journey. More works can be seen at http://lifejourneyanswer.com

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Lost even have everything? Why?

September 15th, 2009

Question: I have almost everything, a good career, a family of my own. I don’t have any worries at this point of my life, why am I still feeling something is missing?

This happens because all achievements you have done is on the outside. Career, money, power and sometimes family are achievements, your ego. The children have to go into a prestigious school, the wife have to be presentable to the guests, friends and relatives but still be able to have good career and etc.

These are all for the outside, for show, presentable for the audiences, the relatives, colleagues, friends, neighbors, all these people are your audiences.

But still, nothing has been done to your inner being. You have been ignoring your true being, what is really wanted by you, yourself, your being. Everybody knows that they are going to leave this world one day, it may be in a week, a month, a year, few years, tens of years.

You may have been in this earth for thirty, forty or fifty years, but you may have done nothing to your being, you may have forget to let your being grow.

The great master was saying, all these you have accumulated in this earth are all dusts, and grow horizontally, expanding your horizon, but only very few have decided to grow vertically for the being, which is mindfulness, no-mind or godliness that someone had put across.

Try to put your ego behind, try to see what you are before the career, the family, the money, everything you have accumulated on the outside.

Try to look inside and with no worries, it is good to start with meditation, searching within you and yourself.

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Coping with anxiety? | The answer.

September 4th, 2009

Question: Is there a way to overcome anxiety? If there is how can I continue to live normally but without anxiety? How can I cope with anxiety?

You have to understand anxiety happens only when you live in the future. You may be afraid that you are not able to meet certain requirements that other people impose on you; it may be your parents, boss, husband, wife or even your children. This is the reason why you are always in an anxious state, trying to match up people expectation.

Have you stopped for a while, look deep into yourself, when did you start to live for the “now”? 

When you start living for the future, planning and strategizing for the future you had actually forgot what is happening now at this moment. When is the last time you went to beach and listen to the sound of the waves hitting onto the sand? That is the now, you are there, your totality was there, your brain, your mind, your soul, and everything is in tune, all-in-one.

The issue here is, it is not easy to let go, you are probably thinking of whether you WILL have a bigger car, a house in a better neighborhood, a higher promotion in your career every single minute, your ego is looking at the future. With this kind of living, do you think that you are living or just keep on planning on your life? After your have a big car, you want a branded luxury one, after your promotion to a manager or director you are aiming for a vice president or even your own business. All these will go on and on, it is just infinity, ego is boundless.

 There was one saying that human being likes to grasp for air, nothing is gain or lose in life. From the moment that human being is born, death is approaching every minute, we have lesser and lesser time as we grow.

Unless, one have seen all the things that ones gain is just dust on the being then, he or she will be able to let go and live his or her life. Searching for the real meaning of life needs courage, wisdom and intelligence. If one is not ready the master will not force you, he will let you go for another cycle, or another until you are ready. However, wisdom can be gained through understanding of life, just a little push, a little more courage and you are on the journey.

 Anxiety happens when someone is afraid of losing something, if you realized that you do not own anything in this world but just a passer-by. Be aware, by stepping one step behind, watch the anxiety when it arise in you, then you will be able to overcome this, overcome should not be the correct word, because anxiety is just the air, the journey has not started yet.

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—The author XunLer is a disciple from a great master is practicing meditation since 1999. Self-searching is the real route of all life journey. You can find more of his work in http://lifejourneyanswer.com –

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