What is Meditation Technique?
Meditation is the journey of our Consciousness to Self.
We have transcended our body consciousness and mind consciousness to reach Self.
The way to transcend is what we call Meditation Techniques.
In other words, Meditation techniques are the techniques or technique one adopts to transcend the body and mind.
Various Masters have researched and found out ways to transcend body and mind.
There are hundreds of Meditation techniques to achieve this goal.
The ultimate aim is to reach Self.
When we reach Self, we will transcend body and mind. We will be with Self. Here we will have No Breath and No Thoughts.
This state is Meditative state or Dhyana Sthithi. It is also called No Mind state.
The character of the mind is thinking, analyzing. So, when we are in Mind zone, we will have thoughts-known or unknown. Further, because of analysis, we move from one thought to another thought and to next thought and it continues for ever.
The thoughts also create emotions, fear, restlessness etc. With this our mind gets disturbed and we feel frustration in Meditation. Some times, we can not continue Meditation. Thoughts haunt us.
To transcend the mind, one has to understand:
“Mind can not transcend the Mind’s zone”.
So we have to stop all activities of the mind-like seeing, speaking, thinking and analyzing.
We can achieve this only with Self activity.
Self activity is pure witnessing or just observing with out any analysis.
When you start witnessing or observing, mind activity slowly stops and we transcend the mind zone and we will reach Self.
Concentration is Mind’s work. Observation is Self’s work.
So, do not concentrate on any thing- let it be chanting, visualizing or Breath.
If you start concentrating on any thing, mind activity starts. So, we start analyzing it. It leads to one thought to another.
We also loose Energy in Mind’s work.
By simply observing or pure witnessing, we will transcend the mind. Here no analysis will be there. No Energy loss will be there. We smoothly reach Self effortlessly. It is the most natural journey to reach Self.
The most easiest and profound way to reach Self is: ‘Observing one’s natural Breath’.
