1. Meditation

2. WHY MEDITATION?
“I am not crying because I am going to die. I am crying because I have never lived. Carl Jung “What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not to cross the abyss (an immeasurable depth) that separate us from ourselves? Thomas Merton

3. WHAT IS MEDITATION?
Meditation is a tool to help solve problems and achieve goals in our daily lives. Real meditation is getting absorbed in our most inner self. (You may call it God, Higher Self, Holy Spirit, etc.)

4. Think, Breath, and Be
Think Love, breath Love, be Love.

5. OUR GOALS The goal of meditation is to “come home”
redeem that part of ourselves that we have lost
become fuller human beings

6. OUR GOALS We meditate in order to gain: serenity peace joy
greater efficiency in everyday life
an increase in our power to love
a deeper view of reality
a more complete self

7. MEDITATION IS A PROCESS
Like any other activities, it needs:
Hard work
Patience

8. WHICH METHOD OF MEDITATION IS GOOD?
There is no single way or the best way
We may use Mantra.
We may have guided mediation.
We may have mindful medication.
Or simply, sit in silence.
Think about it…the answer will be revealed

9. A FEW IMPORTANT POINTS
 A fence is placed around a young tree to protect it. The same precautions must be observed in meditation.  
First:
Do not over do. Like watering your plants a lot, remember too much is not good.  
Second:
You need to practice:
daily
same place
same time
same style

10. POSITION Different styles Sitting on a chair Crossed legs Laying down
Walking
All are acceptable.

11. TIMING OF MEDITATION Morning Mid-day Evening Before the sunset
Before bed time

12. THREE STEPS Concentration Contemplation Meditation
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13. CONCENTRATION
“God miracles belong to those who can concentrate on one thing and limit themselves.” Baal Shem Tov
Saint Theresa of Avila wrote, “I do not require of you to form great and serious considerations in your thinking, I require of you only to look.”

14. Think about it…the answer will be revealed shortly…
CONTEMPLATION
Stage in between concentration and meditation
Partially within the senses
Partially above the senses
On the border of each
That is the experience in genuine meditation
In other words, when one is so concentrated (in) that he/she is not longer conscious of his/her body, that is the stage of contemplation.
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15. CONTEMPLATION It is the step between concentration and meditation.
Some one wrote: “If the mediator remains conscious of himself and that he is engaged in meditation, then he is not meditating, but is still in the preliminary stage, at the beginning of concentration.”
Hmm..
Hmm..

16. Think about it…the answer will be revealed shortly…
MEDITATION
Meditation is entirely above the senses.
In the state of meditation, the mediator, the object of his meditation, and the process of meditation have fallen away, and there is only one. And that one is higher self (God, Holy Spirit, Love).
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17. Paramahansa Yogananda
SUMMARY
Meditation:
The Science of Being
“Actively Calm”
Paramahansa Yogananda