Greetings and felicitations,
Why am I here? I feel that I need some guidance in order to continue on the path. I was introduced to yoga at at an early age and it has been in and out of my life since then for many reasons. My difficulty lies on the meditative path as it did when it was last a part of my life some years ago.
In some ways, I feel that I’ve expressed myself clumsily.
Namaste Nameless,
Welcome to the Forum.
Can you be a bit more specific about the problems you experience with your meditation, give us some backbround and some insight into you as a person and why you feel you have these problems. Can you outline your practice that you did follow, tell us what you trying to do now to get back into meditation again. I am sorry but this is really too little info from your side to warrant a response that will satisfy you.
Aloha and welcome to yogaforums.com. I notice you use a salutation of “mahalo”. Are you here in Hawaii?
Thanks for the replies. I am not Hawaiian (sp). I have always enjoyed the word after learning its meaning. I am currently doing hatha yoga once or twice a week. There is always a final meditation at the end of sessions, but that not what got me thinking about this again. We were on vacation and some of the in-laws were praticing meditation so we talked some and this is what has lead me here. some years ago, I was using Hittleman’s Yoga Meditation as my guide and practicing the meditation techniques therein regularly for some months. I was doing meditation of the ear with music when my third took on a life of its own and began exploring the physical world thru sonar like pulses. At first, I was fascinated, but ultimately it disturbed me enough to stop. I feel that I need a better understanding of this before moving in that direction again.
I hope this doesn’t sound too weird.
The why - What is the true nature of the universe? My life experience shows that it is revealed in bits and pieces and in many forms. One must attempt to recognize those bits and pieces and forms. And maybe one day they form a whole. Words can very limiting by their very nature as they are incomplete expressions of the true nature at best. I believe it was Krishnamurti who said the truth cannot be organized, however that appears to be the nature of the conscious mind.
Meditation seems to be the path to the true nature of the universe. Maybe I have misunderstood.