Mediation means many things to many people and they are prepared to argue for the views they hold. They end up at the very state from which they wanted to escape by doing meditation-a troubled mind.

Yes, I wanted to do meditation to focus mind not on a subject but at a state where it stood collected and calm.

If meditation were a focused attention, I would get it watching a pornographic film.

If meditation were the repetition of a rhythmic sound cluster, if could get it from my music system.

If meditation were thinking of a kind supernatural being, I could do it because it is just thinking and imagining. I could do by reading an imaginative book.

Surely, meditation is not an easy thing to do because it is none of the things that we have been accustomed to doing. Reading, imagining, repeating a sound syllable or focusing your attention.

I feel that meditation is just being, being yourself without the mind making useless commentary. The mind, of course, cannot be stilled. It is the nature of the mind to think. Even in sleep, it is active. Mediation is not subscribing to any of the useless chatter of the mind. It is standing aloof, as a witness, to what is happening in the inner theatre-your mind.

This standing aloof calls for a certain maturity-maturity of thought, maturity of emotions, and of course, a body that is comfortable, not plagued by un-ease or dis-ease.

When the observation shifts from the observed to the observer, meditations takes place. Standing aloof, without participating in the inner drama, and turning the focus from what is happening to who is observing, a paradigm shift takes place.

For once, you now come face to face with yourself. You are bewildered in the initial stages, because you meet yourself as a stranger. Once you come to terms, a new self emerges. A self that sees without participating, a self that can also see itself calmly, a self that can related itself with things outside with a great harmony and peace, a harmony and peace that partakes of the very nature of nature.

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