Meditation

There is much confusion in the yoga world regarding meditation and for any real “progress” to be made in Self-Understanding this has to be clearly understood.

There are so many practices that come along under the title of meditation but really they are no more than “character self-improvement” or “how can I manifest more for myself ” techniques. The problem with all these techniques is that through them the ego grows bigger and bigger as your standing in the world “improves”

One enjoys the compliments “oh aren’t you doing well” or “how did you become so successful?” etc. The resulting happiness from self-improvement techniques can only be temporary. And there is no possibility of Permanent Transformation.

What I call “real” Meditation (Dhyan) is something totally different and Transformation is a real possibility.
One investigates who they truly are, what is …

“REST IN THE NATURE OF ALAYA, THE ESSENCE”

How often do you ask: “How are you?”,  when you pick up your phone?

And how often do you hear ”Good”?

Our automatic responses are called: Alaya Vijnana, the storehouse of consciousness.

Those robot like responses, those irritation’s at home, or at work, are almost always regarding the same subjects, or around the same colleague, or about yourself, and these automatic responses spring from ’the storehouse’.

If we manage to relax truly in this moment, and have the courage to breath there, we can allow this brain connection to dissolve. It is only you who can do this for yourself, and it is only me, who can do this for myself.

Alaya is the aware crossroad we can take, to allow habitual responses to dissolve out of the storehouse. …