Spiritual Practice – a State of No-mind

 

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Spiritual Practice – a State of No-mind

When you need to achieve or attain anything in life it requires commitment and continuous practice. Spiritual practice or dhyan sadhana by definition means following certain principles for progressing in one’s own individual spiritual journey. To progress spiritually one needs to go through life fulfilling all one’s desires and then achieving a state where no more desires are left. Meditation helps in calming the mind and progressing to a state of no-mind.

Meditation is a state of pure consciousness having absolutely no content. An ordinary person’s consciousness is filled with a lot of rubbish, like a dust covered mirror. The mind is in a constant state of flux, thoughts trying to jump over each other trying to grab your attention, desires have their own momentum and so do your memories – the mind is filled with so much of traffic, it is just like having constant traffic in the mind. Day in and day out – even when asleep the mind is at it – but in the form of dreams. It is thinking, preparing itself for the thought onslaught to take care of the next day’s activities.

This state is the opposite of a meditative state. In meditation, there is no traffic, thinking has ceased, there are no thoughts, no desires disturb you, you are completely silent – that silence is meditation. When you find that silence – that is meditation. A state of no-mind.

Meditation cannot be found through the mind, because the mind will always perpetuate itself. One can find meditation only by putting the mind aside, by being coolly indifferent to it, by not thinking that I am it. Actually, it is the awareness that, “I am not the mind.” When one goes deeper and deeper in one’s inner journey, one finds moments of complete calm, stillness, silence – those moments are meditation. In those still, silent, cam, peaceful moments you will know who you are, you will know the mystery of existence.

Once one tastes those few moments of divine nectar, a great thirst arises within you, to go deeper and deeper and discover more and more of the inner world. And if these few moments are possible, then there is no problem. More and more moments will come, the length of the silence will keep increasing gradually as the mind starts gradually becoming silent for longer periods of time.

As you learn to create a distance between yourself and your own thoughts, meditation will start happening and the more it happens, the more it transforms you. A day comes when meditation becomes your natural state – you become meditation. The silence and peace radiate from your very being as it calms and silences the minds which are around you.