Masters and Meditation

Normally people think of meditation as merely the clearing of one's mind, because those that teach it don't explain why to do it or what it leads to. Reminds me of the question about school subjects, "When am I going to use it in real life?"

Basic Mastery

This is the stage one reaches where they have learned and understand the craft/subject from it's point of view. This is what a lot of people think it means to be a master and expect the results of being a full master.

Intermediate Mastery

This is the stage where the person has gained a broader understanding from many points of view. These people are sometimes slower to answer a question, but they have a higher accuracy rate than the basic master, and they are also more flexible in their application of skills.

Full Mastery

This is when the speed comes back through experience and familiarity while also increasing the scope and flexibility. These are the "grand" masters people recognize as learning from all of life to improve their skills and understanding and then apply their increased mastery to the rest of life.

Meditation Mastery

First you learn to clear your mind during a dedicated time. This is a single application of self-control. To clear your mind you put worries, feelings and impulses in their proper place, that is under your control rather than in control. Most people have trouble doing this during quiet, still meditation. Even with moving meditation and other forms, many still struggle with this.

Second, you learn to clear your mind during other activities. Moving meditation uses a particular activity to help reach the calm state. The difference is scope. Moving meditation uses the one activity while this advanced form is to reach a meditative state, clear minded, during any and all activities. It becomes easier as you accomplish it with more activities. That is because you are able to compare becoming clear minded with different things to focus on.

Third, after identifying the meditative state, you try to maintain it. Being calm, open to possibilities and effective at all times is the goal. It's not that your mind is always without thought, it's that you can clear the useless and hindering thoughts from your mind when needed. This is generically useful and known as focus.

Today's Lesson:
There are different levels of mastery.

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Igen Oukan

Masters and Meditation

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