Vedantic Meditation by David Frawley

Author:David Frawley [Frawley, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-58394-956-6
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2014-06-17T04:00:00+00:00

Sensitivity and Sensation

e have many forms of heightened sensation to pursue in the modern world. Entertainment, travel, romance, new clothes, new equipment or new ideas are all a pursuit of sensation. Even much of the spiritual life is a pursuit of sensation in the form of inner colors, lights, sounds and blissful experiences.

Truth only comes to a mind that is not pursuing sensation, that has the capacity to look within. Sensation is not sensitivity but, rather, breeds insensitivity. The pursuit of sensation leads us to brighter colors, louder music and greater speed. It jades the mind, makes the body heavy and takes us out of harmony with the greater joy of existence. Sensation is a form of materialistic seeking in which we strive to take in more and more pleasurable experiences. To accumulate sensation is to become dense and heavy with matter, which produces boredom and fatigue.

How do we empty the mind of sensation? We must first stop filling our minds with it. This begins when we see the illusion and sorrow that the pursuit of sensation leads to. Sensation must have a negative effect upon the mind, just as junk food causes toxins in the body. Sensation increases artificial appetites and breeds agitated and confused actions.

To end sensation we must stop thinking about our sensory experiences, cease mulling them over in our minds. We must engage in a way of meditation to empty the mind. Only the inquiring mind has the energy not to fall into the allure of sensation.

We must reorient our perception. We should cease looking for sensation and become sensitive to existence, both as the visible and the invisible, both as nature and the Divine. This means that the perception of a cloud is as important as the latest movie. It means that emptiness and silence are as real as any sight, sound or touch.

To empty the mind of sensation does not mean that we have to close our eyes and ears, though turning our attention within is essential. It does not mean to make ourselves insensitive to life. On the contrary, it requires that we are more sensitive to the real nature of things and cease following mere appearances. This sensitivity includes both the realm of the senses and beyond.

There is in all things, including those of the sensory world, the presence of the light of consciousness. To be sensitive to that light is to really see and to really feel.

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