Meditation has been something we have been given from ages... Mystics from all parts of the world subscribed to some form of Meditation for their Spiritual Growth and Journey. And yet for many it has been a difficult path to adopt or even attempt to understand how Meditation can give them Peace and Joy.

 

Edgar Cayce explained meditation as follows:

Meditation is not musing, not daydreaming; but, as ye find your bodies made up of the physical, mental and spritiual, it is the attuning of the mental body and the physical body to its spiritual source.

                                                      Reading 281-41

 

Meditation is listening to the Divine within

                                                        Reading 1861-19

Meditation is emptying self of all that hinders the creative forces from rising along the natural channels of the physical man to be disseminated through those centers and sources that create the activities of the physical, the mental, the spiritual amn; properly done must make one stronger mentally, physically...

                                          Reading 281-13

When we decide  to meditate we need to give purpose to the activiy. In the Secret of the Golden Flowe we read, "The decision must be carried out with a collected heart, and not seeking success; success will then come of itself."

 

It is best when we understand the purpose or intent for which we are going into meditation.  For some the true purpose for practicing meditation is the desire to be one with God because of our love for Him. For others could be a state of awareness where they are able to completely relax and allow the mind to completely empty itself from any thoughts and yet for others is the satisfaction of the feeling from their physical body after being able to release all the tensions of the day. What ever the reason we must be careful that we do not make a mental list of reasons for meditating, such as "Iam going to meditate because it will make me more healthy, more phsychic, and more able to get by on less sleep." When we do this our motivation is to get something for ourselves. If we wish to move away from the language of karma and conditionality, and into the language of love, we must be eager to meditate simply because we seeek to be attuned to God.  To do otherwise--is to set expectations or seek results--would be like a man saying to his wife "I am going to love you so that I will be sure that you will do these centain things for me".

Our concerns should not be for the results that may come from regular meditation; rather our aim should be to grow to a state of attunement with the spiritual source.

 

The Eastern tradition stresses much the same approach as is recommended in the readings of Edgar Cayce; in a story from Buddha as follows; A man once came to the Buddha to discuss his long practice of meditation. He said, "I have been meditating for twenty years, and now I can levitate across the river." The Buddha replied, "You have been wasting your time. For a nickel you could have taken the boat at any time." 

 

Another of Edgar Cayce reading gives us another important key to meditation an it is as follows:

Turn within, rather than holding to something above self. For know, the promise is that He shall meet thee within thine own temple. The technique, then is an error. It is not above self, He meeteth thee in thine own tabernacle, in the holy of holies; in the third eye--not above same

                                                                        Reading 1782-1

 

Here are some guidelines on Meditation that can be helpful: