It just so happens that everything in our world is bought and sold. You can buy absolutely everything - prestige, respect, popularity, God and even love. This is partly because the human mind is greedy. When a person comes to the practice of meditation, he expects the same result as if he came, for example, to the dentist. He is tormented by a toothache, it has become so unbearable that it overshadowed the rest of the world. He cannot think about the beauty of this world, he does not care about anything except this hellish pain. Pain has become at the head of everything and the rest of the world does not exist with all its problems and crises.
And so he enters the doctor's office, pays money if only the pain goes away. And when the doctor does his job, everything changes. A person goes outside and rejoices at the flowers on the lawn, rejoices in the sun and even rain. A miracle happened - that pain was for everyone, but it disappeared, and the world began to play with its colors.
With exactly the same approach, a person comes to meditation. He pays, first of all, with his time, with his effort, and naturally awaits the result. Especially if he is a successful person - a big businessman, politician, famous person. He knows his own worth and knows the value of his time. Time is more precious to him than money. And therefore, he must be sure that his resources are not in vain. He benefits everywhere - every ruble he spends brings two. Or the thing received for this money exceeds the money invested. This is how he works, how he rests, marries, makes friends. Everything only from the point of view of benefits.
That is why so few famous, famous and wealthy people are interested in meditation. For them, going to church, donations to the church is already a big sacrifice. But this is still beneficial to his prestige. And this earns him a reputation, God has nothing to do with it. Church is just one profitable investment. And it doesn't matter at all what the holy fathers say there - the main thing is that he has appeared as a patron of the arts. Got the respect it deserves. He will not pray to God when no one is seeing, he will come to church on Sunday when it is full of people - he wants to show that he keeps up with fashion. He is where in our time it is considered prestigious to visit at least once a year.
And what such a person - a businessman, a politician - can get from meditation? Where are the guarantees that what the meditation promises will happen to him? The greedy mind cannot understand this. There is no benefit here.
We all live in the world of business, purchase and sale, commodity-money relations. And the mind of everyone in any case hopes for benefits. For a person, an extreme act can happen only because of love, and even then not always and not for everyone. Except in rare cases, there is also a benefit. Moreover, meditation is something about which we have no idea what it is. Everything that is written about her is somehow vague and blurry. There is a big gap in this description itself. Initially, there is a warning that a lot will be required from you, and what is not clear. And then there was a warning - they say, the result of all this is unknown.
Although there are people who successfully sell it and are quite inexpensive. Especially for those who want to escape from reality and hide behind another illusion. These people, these salespeople are like a bad student who came to the first math lesson, and there they passed what would be two plus two. He recognized the answer, and happily says - "Now I understand everything, I understood what mathematics is, everything is simple - two plus two equals four, I'll go tell everyone, let them see how smart I am." They go, gather the people - "come, today I will tell you how much two plus two will be!" Those who do not know mathematics at all come and naturally begin to respect him, they call him a sage, enlightened.
This is what modern meditation looks like. Those who give it to people are not even bad students of mathematics - they are students of these students. And what is two plus two in arithmetic - a drop in the ocean. And their knowledge is also just a drop of knowledge, and the rest is just a sham.
And then a person comes to meditation or the technique of preceding meditation. He even by a lucky chance can get to the master. Only he will not understand this. He spent some of his resources, donated time, money, other desires. He could go to the cinema or a concert, go to his parents, meet friends in a cafe. But instead of all this, he came to practice. And naturally he is full of expectations. He is waiting for a miracle, insight, insight. He hopes that suddenly the future or the past will open up to him, and he will see his past lives. Or if he has a sophisticated mind, he expects that his internal dialogue will finally stop, he will disappear, the long-awaited enlightenment will come, an understanding of the essence of subtle matters, the essence of things.
After all, he, in the end, made a contribution and cannot leave empty-handed. He, as a businessman, will have to explain to himself what he received from meditation. After all, he bought a thing, made a good deal. He will now have to put it somewhere in a prominent place, he will have to tell his friends, attach another medal to his chest.
And, in the end, the following happens - either he is disappointed in meditation forever or invents an illusion for himself. Both of them received nothing. But the former honestly admit that this is all nonsense - they turn around and leave to seek their happiness in something else, and the latter, trying to smooth out the embarrassment, trying to justify the time spent, imagine that the meditation was a success. They got what they wanted - they felt the energy or saw a glow, or their mind stopped and knowledge came. The first make sure that they were deceived and now demand from life something else that will bring them satisfaction, and the second are convinced that they have spent their resources profitably and now require continuation.
But neither one nor the other is right. And their colossal mistake is comparable only with the power and depth of the process, which is paradoxical in its essence, leading to the summit of meditation!
They are already here!
You are already here!
You are already Here !!!
You. Already. Here !!!!!!
But the paradox is that you are waiting for someone to sit on the other side of the swing! Both are connected by one thing - you think that meditation is at one pole, and you are at the other. And then you will never meet! But you are that polarity - you don't have to go anywhere. You are the two poles of the same phenomenon. You just have to understand it!
Therefore, go, seek, be disappointed, sing, dance, fight, save money, play with children, travel, laugh, cry, find and lose again, and find again - meditation is always with you. You are - meditation!
