Meditation is completely unlike anything else you do. Everything else you do is goal-oriented: you do it to get something out of it.
It’s therefore appropriate to say that meditation is just like a Chinese Finger Trap.
Chinese Finger Trap
A Chinese Finger Trap is a device that tightens on you the harder you try to get out of it. Likewise, if you are unhappy with your current results in meditation, the instinctive response is to fuss and fidget. But doing so only allows the trap to tighten on you more and more.
Look at this description of how to get out of a Chinese Finger Trap:
The trick to escaping the finger trap is to relax, push the ends of the trap inward, toward the middle, thereby enlarging the openings.
And believe it or not, the same thing applies to meditation. The more you try to do. And even the more you try to do not-doing, you dig yourself a deeper and deeper hole!
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Realization cannot be snatched in meditation. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is a Quantum Chemistry concept, but we can illustrate the idea with something simple. Let’s say that a spider is afraid of light, but you want to find it. The second you turn on the light, the spider runs out of the light… therefore the more light you cast in order to find the spider, the more the spider runs away!
Fighting with your current state in meditation will fail the same way. Each time you try to improve things, the spider that you want sees the light you are casting and makes a run for it!
Disease
Disease is a similar thing. The more concerned you get about the body, the less at ease you are — the more dis-ease you create. It’s odd, if you don’t care about the body, then the dis-ease disappears. But if you care about the body then the dis-ease persists.
Now on to Bob
One initiate of Guru Siyag is Bob. He called me and said that “nothing was happening” in his meditation. Well, for him to know nothing was happening, he would have to sample a moment in time, evaluate it and then sample another moment and compare them. I once was told, and firmly agree, that real meditation is pure experience. Pure experience. No evaluation. No complaining. No expectation.
