Hi,
This is Guy Finley,
And let me welcome you to a series of four short talks all about the next level of meditation.
To enter into the next level of meditation is to discover and then realize the next level of your own higher consciousness.
So we're going to take a deep look at what this kind of mindfulness is,
What it means to us,
And more importantly,
How it is that we can begin in our own lives to take our work of meditation and our wish to gain the gifts that it brings into our daily life on a daily basis.
So let me tell you a little short story.
An aspirant,
Someone who wanted to make the discoveries that you and I are interested in,
Went to the master that she was working with and wanted to know why it was that her transformation machine,
Which was designed to turn lead into gold,
Wasn't working the way it was when she saw her master use it.
She says to him,
Look,
I know it's built the same way,
It's got the same parts,
What's wrong?
I don't understand why it won't do what it's created to do.
And with that the master examined it and then looked at her and said,
Well,
It's pretty evident you're missing one very special element in the process,
Something without which all you have here is a pile of parts incapable of transforming anything.
And with that she became a little indignant and said,
Well,
What do you mean?
What part have I left out?
What element am I missing that I have to have before this machine can perform its highest function?
Please tell me.
And he said,
You've left out the one thing that has the power to combine these elements and transform them into gold.
And that is the awareness of your own existence.
A living and timeless sense of yourself that is much like the hub of a wheel,
A center point aware of all that's moving around it but that itself remains unmoving.
That level of yourself is what you're missing and without it you cannot transform anything into the gold that hides within it.
And that is meditation.
It is to have and be able to practice within ourselves and our relationship with life the presence of a completely different order of mind.
To be in a conscious relationship with a quiet,
Compassionate intelligence that's aware of all that's going on and in all through you at the same time.
It is a unified state of being that sees and knows all things as an expression of itself and yet without being identified with any one of these expressions.
And that brings us to a question that most of us don't want to ask but that for those who want to know the next level of meditation must be asked because who is it that has time to sit quietly at peace within oneself let alone when everything is calling to have so much to do and get done before we can begin to realize that peace that passes understanding.
And yet,
And I guess this is kind of a kicker,
Where is all of one's time spent?
What is the point of all of our activity,
The planning,
The almost endless rush to arrive?
But where?
See,
That's the question.
Please take the moment needed right now to allow the following answer to sink in and hopefully at least get you started on the next level of meditation.
We all struggle to arrive at some kind of peace that will at long last be our own.
When finally we arrive at whatever moment we've imagined we must become or obtain in order to finally be at peace with ourselves and with our own life.
To see that such a day never really comes and that even when seemingly achieved must disappear along with the momentary conditions that brought about its temporary appearance to begin with.
All of that understanding and more,
Everything that we're going to look at together is what it means to go into the next level of meditation.
We cannot create peace in a time to come.
We either do the inner work,
The meditation required to realize and enter into it right now or never.
I'll see you in the next talk where we're going to talk about what it means,
The secret of being inwardly still.
Thanks for joining me.
See you in a bit.
