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    Meditation The Doorway To The Self
    Meditation The Doorway To The Self
    Meditation The Doorway To The Self
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    Meditation The Doorway To The Self

    By J. Robin E. Harger

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    Meditation is often hailed as a way to reduce stress and induce states of mental relaxation. It is certainly true that meditation will allow a person to achieve relaxation. This is because the first goal of meditation is to “still the mind” and to thereby allow the shape of the true self to emerge. But what is this “true self” one might ask and why should this be of interest to anyone? To answer this, it is first of all necessary to establish a simple vocabulary that can be used to address one’s consciousness or mind. To begin with, most will be aware that one’s normal every-day waking state is often termed “waking consciousness” or perhaps the “ego-self”. It corresponds with “what one feels one is” in the every-day world. Dwelling in that identity for just a moment ensures that images concerning one’s ordinary state of being will commence to pass through the mind. Images relating to “who one is by normal identity”, what one does from day to day, where one lives and so forth will commence to stream through consciousness.
    However, this is not the only state of consciousness that is readily apparent. Others include aspects of the sleeping state in various degrees such as dream-conditions, deep sleep and so forth. Also, if one thinks back a bit, it is usually readily possible to detect aspects of one’s very early states of childhood consciousness say to around two years of age or perhaps earlier. However, for most people the very much earlier stages of being-awareness seem to be veiled-off and are not immediately accessible so to speak. Never-the-less a person might have been reassured by parents, older siblings, presentation of photographs and so forth of their existence in the world prior to this apparently earliest remembered state of consciousness. The result being that a person becomes used to the idea that they have existed in that earlier state, even though they cannot remember much if anything at all, about it.
    What then of the “true self” mentioned above, what is this state of being (that similarly cannot be apparently remembered) and why should it constitute any point of interest what-so-ever? Briefly put, the True Self (or the Self for short), is closely related to (really constituting the core of) that prior-existing state of being upon which the earliest childhood state (and ultimately one’s present state) has been constructed. So, for the same reason that one might not readily have access to the earliest memories of baby and child-hood, many if not most people, are unable to recall any direct knowledge of the True Self, whatsoever!
    What is wrong with this one might say? The short, sharp answer is that if one has “lost contact” with the Self, the aspect of being stretching to a point beyond time itself, then one is “truly lost” and cannot even begin to know what one is beyond the immediately accessible conglomerate image that supports the personal-self. The term “soul” is also used to address some aspects at least, of the internal extension of being about which we presently speak. Some faiths prefer to use the term “impulse” to address the same concept but the actual name applied to this notion is not important however its investigation is indeed most relevant to understand who one really is.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJ. Robin E. Harger
    Release dateSep 13, 2011
    ISBN9781465911032
    Meditation The Doorway To The Self
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    J. Robin E. Harger

    Born: New Zealand 1938, spent my early years on a sheep farm in the Waikato. Attended the University of Auckland and The University of California, Santa Barbara where I studied marine biology and population ecology respectively. Went on to teach experimental field ecology at The University of British Columbia from whence I strayed into environmental activism. During the course of my scientific career published widely in technical journals across the fields of ecology, environmental assessment, global warming as well as a number of articles dealing with the theory and practice of environmental activism. I eventually joined UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) spending fourteen years in the Jakarta Office before retiring as a Director of The International Oceanographic Commission (IOC) in 1999. Have an extremely well-founded understanding of the relationship between science and social practice having also spent time with The State of Michigan Toxic Substances Control Commission where he designed and implemented clean-up procedures applied by the state in controlling instances of toxic substance contamination in the environment.My foray into the area of self-analysis and subsequent projection into the profound provoked a complete reversal of my previously solid view of external physicality now finding complete agreement with Sri Ramana in observing “That the world and the mind arise as one but of the two the world depends on the mind alone the only reality being that in which this inseparable pair have their rising and setting – The One Self Alone”.

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      Meditation The Doorway To The Self - J. Robin E. Harger

      Meditation

      The doorway to the Self

      by J Robin E Harger

      Copyright: J Robin E Harger, 2010

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      Contents

      Front piece

      Introduction

      Procedures

      Mantra

      Third-eye contemplation

      Direct self enquiry

      Clear sight meditation

      Meditation practice

      Specific techniques

      Insights beyond meditation

      The elements of self realization

      Knots of the heart

      Multiple levels of Self

      Stages in progress

      Supreme state

      Awakening

      What is awakening?

      How is this achieved?

      Conclusion

      The Author

      Introduction

      Meditation is often hailed as a way to reduce stress and induce states of mental relaxation. It is certainly true that meditation will allow a person to achieve relaxation. This is because the first goal of meditation is to still the mind and to thereby allow the shape of the true self to emerge. But what is this true self one might ask and why should this be of interest to anyone? To answer this, it is first of all necessary to establish a simple vocabulary that can be used to address one’s consciousness or mind. To begin with, most will be aware that one’s normal every-day waking state is often termed waking consciousness or perhaps the ego-self. It corresponds with what one feels one is in the every-day world. Dwelling in that identity for just a moment ensures that images concerning one’s ordinary state of being will commence to pass through the mind. Images relating to who one is by normal identity, what one does from day to day, where one lives and so forth will commence to stream through consciousness.

      However, this is not the only state of consciousness that is readily apparent. Others include aspects of the sleeping state in various degrees such as dream-conditions, deep sleep and so forth. Also, if one thinks back a bit, it is usually readily possible to detect aspects of one’s very early states of childhood consciousness say to around two years of age or perhaps earlier. However, for most people the very much earlier stages of being-awareness seem to be veiled-off and are not immediately accessible so to speak. Never-the-less a person might have been reassured by parents, older siblings, presentation of photographs and so forth of their existence in the world prior to this apparently earliest recallable state of consciousness. The result being that a person becomes used to the idea that they have existed in that earlier state, even though they cannot remember much if anything at all, about it.

      What then of the true self mentioned above, what is this state of being (that similarly cannot be apparently remembered) and why should it constitute any point of interest what-so-ever? Briefly put, the True Self (or the Self for short), is closely related to (really constituting the core of) that prior-existing state of being upon which the recallable childhood state (and ultimately one’s present state) has been constructed. So, for the same reason that one might not readily have

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