From a talk given in Vancouver by Bonni Ross February 25, 1997
In the travelling and teaching I’ve been doing lately, people have been asking questions about the meditative process itself, wanting to examine what happens when someone begins to practice, and then continues with meditation as the primary vehicle for the unfoldment of consciousness. It seems these questions focus on two things: whether or not it is possible to speed the process up, and where and how the process gets derailed.
Now, people tend approach the practice of meditation as a technique in the beginning. A method is learned as a tool for shaping consciousness in some way — for more calm, for dealing with stress, for experiencing bliss — for changing the way things are to something that is perceived as being different or better. This stage always seems to entail a certain struggle with the mastery of the mental technology. How do you do it? And then, how do you do it right? And then it’s, “this one doesn’t really suit me,” or “it doesn’t work,” or “maybe I need another one . . .” Read the rest of this entry »