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Discourse 4
Never Meditate over Something
Never Meditate over Something
23 December 1987 am in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium
Question 1
BELOVED MASTER,
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO ”MEDITATE OVER” SOMETHING? I
KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO ”THINK OVER” SOMETHING; THAT’S
WHAT THE MIND IS CONTINUOUSLY DOING: REMEMBERING,
ANALYZING, PLANNING, IMAGINING, ETCETERA.
I ALSO CAME TO KNOW A STATE OF MEDITATION WHERE THE
"I” IS NO MORE, WHERE ALL THE BOUNDARIES ARE LOST, JUST
A MELTING INTO THE WHOLE, A DISAPPEARING,
WEIGHTLESSNESS, LIGHT, AND BLISS.
BUT WHAT, BELOVED MASTER, DO YOU MEAN WHEN YOU SAY
TO US, ”MEDITATE OVER IT”?
Bodhi Deshna, the languages of the West have no equivalent to
meditation. It is sheer poverty of experience and poverty of
language – just as in the East you will not find many words which
exist in the Western hemisphere, particularly scientific,
technological, objective. So the first thing to be understood is that
we are trying something almost impossible.
In the East we have all the three words that English has, but we also
have a fourth word that English – or any Western language – has
missed. And the reason is not just linguistic; the reason is that
this kind of experience has not been available to them.
The first word is ‘concentration’. In the East we call it ekagrata, one-
pointedness...
Question 1
BELOVED MASTER,
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO ”MEDITATE OVER” SOMETHING? I
KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO ”THINK OVER” SOMETHING; THAT’S
WHAT THE MIND IS CONTINUOUSLY DOING: REMEMBERING,
ANALYZING, PLANNING, IMAGINING, ETCETERA.
I ALSO CAME TO KNOW A STATE OF MEDITATION WHERE THE
"I” IS NO MORE, WHERE ALL THE BOUNDARIES ARE LOST, JUST
A MELTING INTO THE WHOLE, A DISAPPEARING,
WEIGHTLESSNESS, LIGHT, AND BLISS.
BUT WHAT, BELOVED MASTER, DO YOU MEAN WHEN YOU SAY
TO US, ”MEDITATE OVER IT”?
Bodhi Deshna, the languages of the West have no equivalent to
meditation. It is sheer poverty of experience and poverty of
language – just as in the East you will not find many words which
exist in the Western hemisphere, particularly scientific,
technological, objective. So the first thing to be understood is that
we are trying something almost impossible.
In the East we have all the three words that English has, but we also
have a fourth word that English – or any Western language – has
missed. And the reason is not just linguistic; the reason is that
this kind of experience has not been available to them.
The first word is ‘concentration’. In the East we call it ekagrata, one-
pointedness...
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