Meditation in a Mechanical Age
In the era where so many things are capable of being reproduced, and often to an almost exact degree, original experience is becoming more difficult to track. That’s not to imply that it’s becoming more rare, because original experiences do happen all the time, but it’s just that people are becoming more accustomed to experience that is repeatable.
Most human beings are not, in fact, creatures of habit. Ironically, they have been by and large habituated toward habit, to the point where it becomes very comfortable. Daily experiences, then, are perceived as more pleasant when they are comfortable and can be anticipated. Even spiritual connections have become subject to the scrutiny of past experience.
Some schools of meditation will teach according to a very strict set of actions, where the development of the student follows a certain course. Many of these kinds of meditation are extremely useful, but they do require a high level of commitment, where somethings will need to be renounced.
There are other lines of thought that consider forms like Sahaja Meditation to be of another very useful kind of path. It’s based more on spontaneous experience than discipline, although eventually discipline will help one to reach a meditative state of mind very quickly. No school is better or worse, but they do depend on the path of the seeker, and the lessons they are ready to learn along the way.
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