Articles on Meditation

Meditation - Touching The Infinite

"What is meditation? Most of us have had meditative moments at some time in our lives often without realising what they are – moments when all the usual preoccupations and thoughts of the mind fall away, leaving us with an experience of calm, clarity, delight. Perhaps you were walking along the seashore and in that moment of nothing to do, nowhere to go, surrounded by the vastness of ocean and sky you experienced the silence of pure consciousness, the stillness of the self within."

Read more: Meditation - Touching The Infinite by Jogyata Dallas.

Fast Track To God

"One of the fruits of meditation is self-knowledge – and one of the gains of self-knowledge is a growing understanding of our soul’s promise and purpose on earth. This rarely comes as a sudden revelation but emerges instead over a handful of years, a precious fruit ripening on our life-tree or a slow and gradual dawn."

Read more: Fast Track To God by Jogyata Dallas.

The Musical Key

"Lungs know fine air without cerebral confirmation; they drink their fill impulsively. Leaves know the sun, and stretch their bellies out to it. So it is for me with ripe berries, or my mother’s baking - it seems every cell of me says, “Yes!” to them with complete and pure abandon. It is an elemental response; a recognition of source; an ancient resonance beyond the mechanics of questioning.

"So it was with that music."

Read more: The Musical Key by Sumangali Morhall.

Loitering With Intent

"As a child his ambition had been to be a great mystic; to live in a distant cave rapt in the sublime, effulgent vision of godhead; lost in the blinding light of the divine.

"With time, things change, aspirations alter, goals move. He came to believe that his ambition was a form of pride, a form of grasping desire. Better to aspire to be a humble monk, silent in an austere cell applying himself to his disciplines. The Carthusians, he heard tell, were the most rigourous order in the Catholic Curch. He saw himself alone and unsleeping in his cell. Things change. He again came to believe that his ambition was a form of pride. Better to aspire to be a humble Benedictine monk following the rule of St Benedict that had guided countless aspirants quietly towards God."

Read more: Loitering With Intent by Barney McBryde.

Meditation Nights at the Sri Chinmoy Centre

"Centre meditation nights are a highlight in my week, when I always have my best meditations and my aspiration seems to multiply. My spiritual family – seventy other members of the Sri Chinmoy Centre in Auckland also join me in our meditation room, which is abundantly decorated with flowers, spiritual books, photos and Sri Chinmoy’s beautiful bird paintings. The incense is wafting through and the room is pin-drop silent. A few of us are reading on cushions while we wait for more to arrive. The singing starts in the next room led by melodies on the harmonium."

Read more: Meditation Nights at the Sri Chinmoy Centre by Alesha Thorpe.