What is True Meditation
Spoken By Supreme Master Ching Hai in San Francisco, CA,
U.S.A. (May 25, 1989) (Originally in English)
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Q: How do you deal with the fear of letting go of self, of becoming selfless, egoless?
M:: I don't remember how I deal with it. It just naturally goes by getting in touch with God, and merging yourself with God. You just naturally have no more self. Slowly, slowly the self will go out. That's it. I don't deal with it. To have to deal with it is a problematic thing. Because the self is very big, therefore, you let God deal with it. After you practice this method, you become less and less self, and then you become greater and greater. The less you become, the greater you are. This is a paradox of God. It is not for us to understand.
Q: How do you meditate?
M: How? Of course, everyone already knows how to mediate. It is only that you meditate on the wrong thing. Some meditate on pretty girls, some meditate on money, some meditate on business. Every time you pay attention a lot to one thing, one pointedly and wholeheartedly, that is meditation. And now, I pay attention only to the inner power, to the compassion, to the love, to the merciful quality of God, and that is my meditation. But to do so officially, we should just sit in a quiet corner and be by ourselves and that is the process of meditation. But it is not by sitting quietly in a corner that one gets something. No, no! You have to get in touch with that inner power first, and with that inner power we meditate. Actually, it is like that. So, that is called self-awakening. You must awaken the real self inside and let Him meditate, not you, the human brain and the mortal understanding. That power will meditate, He meditate, He awakens Himself, He knows how to work now.
At the moment you let Him sleep and you do everything mechanically with the brain, the order of the brain. So, even when you sit down, you think of thousand and one things and you cannot subdue your own passions. But when your self awakens, the real inner self, then the God power within you will control everything, will meditate, will come back to its own self. And that is the real meditation. You only know real meditation after you are awakened by transmission from a real master. Otherwise, it is only a waste of time, mind wrestling, body wrestling. You only rest your body, but the mind is struggling and fighting. That is not real meditation.

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