Unconditional Life by Deepak Chopra M.D

Author:Deepak Chopra, M.D. [Chopra, Deepak]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-79919-7
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2011-06-08T00:00:00+00:00

The Polished Mirror

Turning the mirror inward is a metaphor for the actual process I wanted Elaine to discover, meditation. Medically speaking, meditation has proved particularly helpful in cases like hers where the patient’s physical and mental states have become severely disjointed. I advised her to seek instruction in primordial sound meditation, the technique that I myself practice and which we teach at the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, in California.

In my eyes, the primary advantage of meditation lies in the fact that it is an entirely natural process—it allows the mind to discover its own subtlest layers without force, just as they are discovered in moments of calm quietness in normal life. To unveil the most delicate feeling level of the mind, a meditation technique has to be as effortless as possible; otherwise, one is just forcing the mind into a preconceived mold. (The opposite of a natural meditation would be one where intense concentration is used.)

In English, the classic description of a natural state of meditation is provided in the poems of William Wordsworth. As an adult, Wordsworth could no longer see the celestial light that made his childhood so glorious, but his mind was acutely attuned to itself—he had turned the mirror inward. In a contemplative passage from his great poem “Tintera Abbey,” he describes with marvelous precision

… that serene and blessed mood,

In which the affections gently lead us on—

Until the breath of this corporeal frame

And even the motion of our human blood

Almost suspended, we are laid asleep

In body, and become a living soul;

While with an eye made quiet by the power

Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,

We see into the life of things.

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