Gateway/Door
Though meditation varies from person to person, context to context, and tradition to tradition people unanimously agree that this simple practice serves as a gateway to deeper spiritual experience.
- A western secularist may use meditation to attain a state of deep mental and emotional clarity, brining back deeper insight into living a stress and pain free life
- A Hindu mystic may use meditation to attain Self-Realisation, bringing back the insight into how connected everything is
- A Buddhist mystic may use meditation to view and reach out to Emptiness, bringing back insight into the conditional nature of everything
- A Christian mystic may use meditation to gaze lovingly into Godde, bringing back insight into living a life centered around love for Godde and other persons who are the image of Godde
As such meditation may be considered a spiritual technology enabling personal experience with the object, source or goal of our respective faiths. By understanding how others use meditation the range of spiritual experience, insight and wisdom for living available to us is broadened exponentially.
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