Advanced meditation is the profound experience described by meditation teachers and Eastern sages. Yogis call it Dhayana or Samadhi while Buddhists refer to this as Jhana or Insight. Universally, meditation teachers point to transformative states that can be achieved by cultivating a consistent meditation practice with earnestness. You may be ready to try advanced meditation techniques if you have been practicing regularly and often wish your practice periods were longer. Pilot Baba, meditation guru teaches, "Samadhi is not a religion, samadhi is a science of self-discovery."
Step 1
Begin by embarking on your regular meditation practice with the only goal being to sit quietly and continuously without becoming partial to any idea that arises in your mind. Ideally, your regular practice should be about an hour long. This will serve as the foundation for the advanced technique. The use of a timer may be helpful, because advanced meditation will likely last for a couple of hours or more.
Step 2
If you have been practicing regularly, you will likely feel the end of your normal practice period. When this happens, begin samadhi with strong focus. Samadhi is the practice of unwavering concentration upon an object of your attention. For this technique, you will focus upon the quiet of your mind. As thoughts continue to arise, you will bring your attention back to samadhi repeatedly without discouragement or self-judgment.
Step 3
Rest in samadhi concentration for the remaining practice period and you will be entering advanced meditation stages. Remember, this is not a technique to get anything but, rather, to let your mind rest in the quiet that already exists. Do not attempt to control or remove thoughts. That is not the practice. See them without judgment or attachment and let them pass. Then, rest in the quiet beyond them.
Step 4
Rest in the stillness without assessing or analyzing it. Just let yourself be there. According to Ajahn Brahm in " Simply This Moment," when we begin to assess this state of stillness, we have begun mental thought and activity that makes stillness impossible. Although that is tempting, resolve to allow yourself to rest without observing thoughts or mentally taking notes. This is the simplicity of advanced meditation. As you practice, you will find the value of this for yourself.
Member Comments