How meditation works

Meditation is a practice that allows you to reverse your mindfulness inward and observe your thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and sensations.

Ordinary consciousness cannot be converted to a level of exaltation immediately but must be transformed in stages through patience and perseverance and thus, highly satisfactory progress is generated even in the beginning of the practice.

Guide to concentration

The two most important guides in meditation are stillness and concentration.

The purpose of mental and physical stillness is to transport the attention within one and cut off the entrance to the external attention of the senses.

With the silence of stillness, one concentrates the mind and focuses attention generally on the breath or on an object to achieve what is called "point awareness." This is a state of mind that does not lead to distraction, disturbance. It is an undifferentiated state of mind that allows inner intuition to spring up spontaneously.

At the beginning of the practice the mind is not very cooperative. That is the ego, or emotional mind fighting its own extinction with the forces of spiritual consciousness. The last thing the ego and emotions want is to reduce its own energy and it reveals itself day by day as in a circus of entertainments of the senses, making the game wear the body and tire the spirit.