Meditation Mantra for Focus Power and Peace

How to Become Powerful, Focused, and at Peace with Meditation...
Meditation is often thought of as a sitting practice. Deeper meditation involves neither sitting nor practice. It is a nothingness of action. True meditation cannot be boxed into any category or lable of "what is being done." True meditation is simply a matter of "being." There is no direct action involved in meditation.

In other words, if you are trying to achieve something, no matter how mystically you look sitting there ohmmmming, you are NOT MEDITATING.

Yes, I realize this sounds esoteric and confusing. Let me clarify. Meditation is just a word assigned to the purest action of inactivity. It's just a word. Every other word is a person, place thing, or idea. And most of these words are pretty decent at communicating what is meant behind the word. But the word "Meditation" does a great diservice to the concept of "meditation".

Meditation is outside the normal context of daily mundane life. This is to say that if you think you are DOING something or trying to achieve something by "meditating." You are already NOT meditating. If you are trying to reduce stress or lower your blood pressure or become enlightened, you are not meditating.

Lets illustrate, it's possible to say, that if a rock is being a rock, it is "rocking". If a flower is being a flower, it is flowering. This can change. If the same rock is being thrown at someone, it looses it's identity as a rock and suddenly becomes a "projectile" or "weapon." That same flower when given to someone becomes a "gift."

Oddly, if a person is being a "conscious spiritual being", we refer to it as "meditating." So really, a person in meditation could more accurately be described as "BEING," not "meditating." Meditation is NOT an Action. This may seem like splitting hairs but Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, and many others pointed to how to meditate correctly.

Look at it this way, if someone asks you what you "do," you answer, "i am a ......." So in your mind, you have so completely identified with your occupation that you become the job. This is like telling people you are a hair farm because your hair is always growing. Meditation, for lack of a better word, is precisely to opposite. Meditation is when you simply are. You are and that's it.

Some people are proud of being a "doctor" or "lawyer" but identification with these roles leads to pain and falsehood. What happens when that same doctor or lawyer comes home to bickering children? How quickly can that parent drop the healer or arbitrator role and simply love-nurture-comfort?

You see? Being free from any LABLE or identification IS true freedom. It implies the instant ability to "be all things to all people."

So, meditation gives you the opportunity to be "nothing." You can become the font of buddist joy, nothingness. But don't be confused. Being nothing can be the most powerful and liberating thing. I am holding my hand out to you asking, "what's in my hand?" You see nothing. so you say "nothing!" But without what's in my hand, you'd suffocate to death in 8 minutes. You see what we mean by "nothing," now?

Is this why when Moses asked the burning bush for his name, [GOD] replied, "YHWH" or "I AM THAT AM?" Is that not the most nothing of a name you've ever heard?

The wrong way to meditate is to try to create a result. Maybe why that's why so many say, "it was relaxing but it wasn't profound." Trying to create a result immediately pulls you out of the present and puts you in the future.

Krishna warned against action for a future result when he said, "Do your duty to the best of your ability, O Arjuna, with your mind attached to the Lord, abandoning (worry and) attachment to the results, and remaining calm in both success and failure. The equanimity of mind is called Karma-yoga. (Bhagavad Gita 2.48)" Jesus showed his intense presense when he spoke of an ancestor many centuries passed, "Before Abraham was, I AM."

Did you notice that Jesus of Nazareth used poor grammar? Before Abraham WAS, I AM, is what he said. That's like saying, "Last Tuesday, I am driving." This perfectly illustrates the importance of just "being" when you meditate. Be present.

If you are driving, be there. In the car. Sense the road, feel the earth, see the traffic, breathe. Do not "TRY" to get somewhere. Do what you are doing and you will MAGICALLY APPEAR where you are supposed to. Think about it. Everytime you've gotten in a car accident, you can clearly remember what you were thinking about can't you? That proves you were not present.

Your mind was NOT "attached to the lord." You were showing attachment to results. If you are Christian, you will remember the words, "whatever you are doing, work at it whole souled as to the lord." And, "do not become anxious over anything. Who of you can add one cubit to your life by being anxious?" Anxiety is ALWAYS FUTURE BASED.

So, Here is the Secret... By meditating throught your day, your energy will become focused like a laser or a magnifying glass instead of being spread between the past present and future. This focus will create intense power in all that you do. And since anxiety only has it's grip on your throat when you are dwelling on FUTURE OUTCOME, being present without any attachment to the results will result in deep peace.