Direct Truth: Uncompromising, non-prescriptive Truths to the enduring questions of life by Kapil Gupta

Direct Truth: Uncompromising, non-prescriptive Truths to the enduring questions of life by Kapil Gupta

Author:Kapil Gupta [Gupta, Kapil]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2018-07-23T16:00:00+00:00


HOW DO I PRACTICE MEDITATION?

Q: How do I practice meditation?

A: I am not a meditation instructor.

Q: Do you meditate?

A: No.

Q: I’ve heard that there are many health benefits to meditation.

A: I understand.

Q: Do you think meditation has any benefits?

A: Yes.

Q: What?

A: It can help a person feel a bit calmer. And somewhat recharged. There are likely also physiologic health benefits as you mentioned.

Q: Then why don’t you meditate?

A: I do not do things purely for health.

Q: Why not?

A: It isn’t a sufficiently powerful motivator for me.

Q: What do you think is more powerful?

A: Meditativeness.

Q: What’s that?

A: To be lost in what you are doing.

Q: Isn’t that mindfulness?

A: Mindfulness is forced awareness. To be lost in what you are doing is to lose the self. Instead of trying to improve the self.

Q: Meditation doesn’t do this?

A: Meditation is an independent activity. Meditativeness is to make your entire life a meditative experience.

Q: Do you think the world would be better off being meditative?

A: Not by force.

Q: Do you think meditativeness is more powerful than meditation?

A: Whether it be meditativeness or meditation, it must be an effect rather than a goal. That which one pursues as a goal never arrives. Any prescription that one pursues, he becomes imprisoned to.

Q: You seem to be speaking of the ultimate heights.

A: Why pursue scraps, when the ultimate heights are available to you?



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