By Peter Marchand

Meditation Objects

 

Tantric Advaita

Kindle edition : ASIN: B0DQV9QLTW

Paperpack edition : ISBN: 979-8303998506

202 pages

Date of Publishing : December 2024

DESCRIPTION

‘MEDITATION OBJECTS’ is a handmade extract from the Samadhi handbook on the subject of our dear objects of meditation. We can focus on seed sounds and mantras. We might visualize spiritual symbols, images of deities, a tree species or geometrical yantras. We can feel the existence of more abstract objects such as space or time. And we can direct our awareness to our awareness itself, take the subject as our object. Our Ego has the thankless task to choose. This is thus an Ego game for sure, yet we play it lightly. Everything is divine, so we can sample any meditation object while learning how to meditate. As when falling in love, we will suddenly know to have found our heart’s desire, at least for a longer while. That peace which we all seek becomes self-existing whenever we connect to that object. From form to formless, that object must first and foremost make us forget about ourselves. While we thus may contemplate as much as we feel the need, yogic science advises us to regularly stop the Ego stories in our mind by concentrating it upon a meditation object. Whatever it is, we stop thinking about ourselves and focus exclusively on that which represents our goal. The object is not the destination, but it will lead us there.

This booklet is part of a series of small books extracted from “Samadhi – The Deep Meditation Handbook”, a two-volume work with over 600 pages on reaching the deepest states of meditation. Samadhi is the highest of yogic practices, a trance state where body consciousness is entirely lost and a gradual full merging with the Self is gained. It requires daily sustained meditation practice, supported by some major changes to our lifestyle, attitudes and desires. It is nevertheless everyone’s birthright, even when living as a householder yogi.

 


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The entirety of the yogic tradition is revealed as originating from the Self, bridging the illusion of a gap between nonduality and other practices.

The practitioners of yoga postures, breath, mantra, or meditation should not be confused about whether all of that is helpful on the spiritual path, or just some distraction produced by the ego.