| Untagged | 15 Jul 2008 |
| Transcendental Meditation over the years by david | |
How has your meditation evolved over the years—from a different experience each time, or gone back to the same thing?
With Transcendental Meditation, it’s been my experience, and talking to others their experience as well, you’re an expert from your first meditation.
And we could start talking about consciousness. Consciousness is this quite abstract thing. And it’s—yet the number one ingredient of life. Consciousness is that “I am”-ness, Being. Consciousness is the ability to understand. It’s our awareness; it’s our wakefulness; it’s our inner happiness. If you have a golf-ball-size consciousness, and you read a book, you will have a golf-ball-size understanding, and when you look out, you’ll have a golf-ball-size awareness, and when you wake up in the morning, a golf-ball-size wakefulness; and if you go about the day, a golf-ball-size inner happiness. But if you could expand that consciousness, make that ball of consciousness grow, then when you read that book, more understanding; you look out, more awareness; you wake up, more wakefulness; and as you go along, more inner happiness.
And there is an ocean of pure, vibrant consciousness within every human being. And Maharishi Mahesh Yogi taught Transcendental Meditation. And Transcendental Meditation is a mental technique—easy. And it’s effortless, yet supremely profound in that it allows any human being to dive within and experience subtler levels of mind, intellect, and to transcend that and experience that ocean of pure consciousness.
And it’s the experiencing of this pure consciousness that enlivens it and unfolds it, expands it. And the outcome of that expansion of consciousness, ultimately, is enlightenment, which is the full potential of the human being. It’s a very beautiful thing.
