Introduction to Meditation

Honour to the Lord, Arahat, perfectly and completely Enlightened one!

Meditation open doors to Wisdom. once wisdom is achieved you can see through things like you have not observed before. Meditation is an important phenomena in Buddhism. Nibbana cannot be achieved without practicing meditation. Meditation calms the mind and a calm mind can do miracles.

‘Meditation is the way to letting go’(Ven. Ajahn Brahmavamso). Therefore meditation teachers us to practise letting go. So what is this letting go?

It is a human’s quality that we have attachments. We are attached to our past, and to our un-arrived future. We always live with our past thinking of good memories and bad experiences. Then we make plans for future and live in them till they fade away. Past always beings us frustration and sad and so does our un-arrived future. We are always worried about out future. What am I going to do next year? Is my relationship going well? What happen if I am to leave him or her? Will I be in trouble? When will I get the job I want? So on and so forth. But we will not consider that the future has not yet arrived. And neither we will see the fact that we might not have control on the future. So why do we even bother about future?

Did you have control over your past activities? No. If yes, how comes things went wrong? And things did not work according to your plan? There you go. So truly speaking there is no need to worry about your past because you did not have control over them and you should not be worried about your future because you cannot have control over circumstances. Therefore lets concentrate to your present.

Concentrating to present moment will bring your attention to what you are doing and through that you can achieve success in whatever you are doing. This is a basic fact in Buddhist meditation.

Undivided attention to present moment will open path to successful meditation. In order to start meditation the basic practise is to pay attention to the present moment. Ven Ajahn Brahmavamso calls it the ‘Sustained attention on the present moment’ (The basic method of meditation, 2004).

I will illustrate on this in my next article. Be well!