Yes, you are right. Unless there is profound understanding about life cycles, the so called “real life” and meditation is on the opposite sides.

The “real life” that you are talking about is all about the outside, the glamorous, status and power which is all in the mind, in the society. While when we talk on the inside we are always talk of the no-mind or mindlessness. This is contradicting and it is happening every day even at every moment if you are alert and in awareness.

Things that are in the mind (or on the outside) cannot be fight against by using the inner (or meditation) because it will be like you are using the vast against a grain of sand on the beach, it is very foolish. Let me explain, things on the outside needs the ego, the mind, the mask that you put on every single day and your inner needs nothing.

In the ancient times, masters did not ask the disciple to go into meditation if he or she thinks that the disciple is not ready. But nowadays, information is available everywhere and whether the person is ready or not in meditation, he or she somehow has follow the trend without real understanding. This is obviously very dangerous because people may mistaken the master’s teaching and applied it on the mind and the ego which may cause big disasters in the human being.

First of all, do not apply what you have learned in meditation on the outside. Try to understand the experience that you have gain in meditation. Then look at it in a bigger picture. Slowly you will realized that whatever you have seen in the inside is even bigger than what you have experience at the outside before.

© by Xunler at http://lifejourneyanswer.com
—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 at the above link.–