Meditation Isn’t Just a Practice
Just as there are various methods of meditation, there are even more reasons or goals for meditating. An often-overlooked goal is to eventually be able to hold ourselves in our centre and “do all our activities meditatively,” or to “live meditatively,” that is, to choose, act, and live from our still centre, consciously and with wisdom, instead of from the habitual reactionary patterns of our lower self.
But what does doing or living meditatively actually mean, what are the mechanisms at work?
It means to be present at all times, to live life as a meditative practice and not just a “Church on Sunday” or “meditatively on occasion” type of approach. In this way we can consciously choose rather than forever reacting to the thoughts from our lower or concrete minds, our mental emotions, or the panoply of our emotional reactions and our desire nature as a whole.
A mechanism or deeper extension of living meditatively is to live with constant conscious connection with our Higher Self. If, through meditation practice, we can relax our bodies, still our emotions, and quiet our minds, we can make inner space, to hear the still quiet Voice of our Soul within our Heart. Once we align to and strive to embody this Soular Self, we can become a living divine presence in the world – where we add to the sacredness, rather than the chaos and noise!
Let us next explore more of the reasons we may choose to meditate…
17 Goals or Reasons to Meditate
What follows is a list, loosely in order from the start of our Meditation or Consciousness Awakening Journey, up to when we achieve Full Enlightenment and Liberation. In overview, this list represents a shift from Self-Focus to Selflessness-Focus – from the consciousness of the individual separated self to the vast All-Inclusive Consciousness of a Divine Being.
Why do we meditate…
- To create or allow a break from our thoughts, emotions, and any amplified bodily sensations – a breather of calming stillness to re-centre, and thereby reduce stress, anxiety, and overwhelm.
- To cultivate mindful presence within our body or environment – usually used as a means of increasing productivity, quality of work, or our overall sense of wellness or wellbeing.
Note: Mindfulness, as it is commonly practiced, is still considered a type of self-focus, as it is a tool for focusing one’s own consciousness in Now Presence, and generally the motivating driver is personal gain of some sort. However, there are levels of Esoteric Mindfulness that both expand the focus from the dense self to include energetic work, and also, selfless service for the planet – shifting the practice from passive to engaged – which is aligned to the Occult Path, which follows and is higher than the Path of The Mystic.
- To cultivate balance at all levels.
- To create inner peace through inner alignment.
- To design and create with greater efficiency – accessing and utilising more of our faculties.
- For empowered contemplation – to seek clearer answers through seeking clearer questions, and to seek higher, intuitive, more creative and expansive solutions or outcomes to our problems.
- To expand basic physically focused mindfulness practice to cultivate or make space for Observer Awareness, which itself cultivates deep detachment from the little self, and opens the way for true objectivity and the awareness of Consciousness as Self.
- To become one with All Life – breaking down all barriers and separations. Firstly, dissolving the little self into the Great Ocean of Oneness, the All-Self, and experiencing oneself as Consciousness Itself, then secondly, revealing we are still the drop within the ocean.
- To achieve full Self-Mastery.
- To become one with, and a living embodiment of, our Higher Self or Soul.
- To do and live meditatively – the base of which is detachment or mindfulness but goes beyond the passive mindful state and requires surrender and inner connection.
- To connect to inner allies, guides, angels, devas, guardians, teachers, Masters – to receive guidance, healing, or empowerment.
- To enable us to do energetic service work – the transmutation of darkness to light – thus, liberating ourselves and the world from our dark psychic Karma.
- To become one with a Principle, a Virtue, or a God.
- To awaken and embody Love on Earth – thereby helping the earth to become a sacred planet.
- To become one with, and a living embodiment of, our Monadic Self, leading to Full Liberation.
- To become One with God or the Divine – the Mind and/or Heart of God.
Note: See following heading: “Who is God?”
It may become obvious that many people either fixate on the early stages and stagnate in their development, or due to their pride, skip over the fundamentals and believe they can simply become One with the Divine! Having said this, not all of these seventeen points are “needed steps” for every single incarnate person, it depends very much on one’s spiritual age (the age of their Soul or Higher Self) and the primary Ray line of their Soul. For example, not everyone will need to focus on clearing their psychic karma in every lifetime. The Soul will choose to focus on this, like with all karma, in relation to the larger planetary karmic cycles, the predominant Ray energies that are active for the earth, the various incarnating Soul Groups, and the windows of opportunity these collectively present.
Who is “God”?
The being who is commonly called “God,” linked to the concept of “He who created the Entire Universe,” is of such colossal vastness and such high vibration as to be beyond the reach of human consciousness – whether we are low or so-called “high-vibrational.” The Biblical God, who is also known as Jehovah or the Ancient of Days, is called in the Ageless Wisdom, Sanat Kumara (SK), and is the Lord of the World. While this “God” is a truly exalted and Divine Being, He is in no way he creator of all that is. Because He is of relatively low-vibration, or the gap in vibration between “The Lord of The World” and humanity is relatively small, His consciousness is something that can eventually be reached – once we have a good measure of physical, emotional, and mental control, as his consciousness is not contactable below the level of the Abstract Mind. Despite our abilities to genuinely interact until we are quite self-mastered, it is He who hears human prayers.
Above Him we have an even more Exalted Being, The Solar Logos, whose body of manifestation is the solar system, and here we have a Divine Being, or God, who is already well beyond the reach of humanity – let alone a being whose body is our constellation, our local cluster of 88 constellations (including ours), our greater region of space, our galaxy, or whose body is the trillions of galaxies that exist, as a whole!
To the God of the Universe, we humans would not even be the size of electrons within His atoms. He would not even be aware of our specific planet, let alone a tiny human consciousness – full of self-importance and dwelling upon it! This colossal God concept, and the supposed human ability to interact with such a vastness, is the height of religious delusion.
Therefore, I could end this article with one final reason to meditate – to expand our awareness, and thereby, free ourselves from Maya, Glamour, and Illusion – that we may find and live in Truth!
To Clear Awareness and the Liberation of All Beings
Azure Seer