MEDITATION- DIFFERENT VIEWS

Meditation is just the courage to be silent and alone.
Slowly, slowly you you start feeling a new quality of yourself,
a new alivness,
a new beauty
a new intelligence wich is not borrowed from anybody,
which is growing within you.
It has roots in our existence
Osho Rajneesh

Meditation is concentration and reflection and these must be inward, not outward. meditation is the instrument we need in order to go inside ourselves
to search for that what is beyond ourselves.
Some people want to meditate because they have a disturbed mind and they want a peacefull one.
They do not know what a peacefull mind is or the real nature of peace.which is restfull and can produce the same effect as sleep;
this has no connection with wisdom.
They only want to be free from their restleness, or their tiredness, or their frustration.
It would be better for them to take a couple of sleeping pills for these not only work faster but produce the desired result without any effort on the part of the sufferer.
Other people think of meditation as a kind of therapy curing physical or mental diseases
and altough this may happen occasionally it is not its primary function. Modern medicine with is chemical remedies and techniques has far greater efficiency in this field.
Now we shall go back to the reasons of meditation.
Meditation will only be usefull and worthwile if we are serious about finding ourselves or if we are searching for our selflessness.
If we are earnest to find that thruth- not for our own satisfaction, but in order to help other people who have not find it yet-then it is worthwile to study meditation and to pratise it.
But if our motivation is not pure, meditation will just be a waste of time, for it cannot be used to serve any worldly aims such as the obtaining of pleasure or power
Samdhong Rinpoche
Budhist Meditation
The Theosophical Publishing House