Fallacy of Response

As one advances more and more in meditation practice, in real terms, not for fanciful or trend reasons, but for the purpose of gaining freedom from being a slave to energies in the psyche which dominate the attention of the core-self, one comes to realize that so many ideas which are given by teachers are so much bunkum; that the whole practice of elementary meditation borders on being a farce for the most part.

Take for instance the mind’s tendency for responses. In elementary meditation they focus on response to other people. They introduce the idea of being unaffected by negative energies from others and also being indifferent even to positive emotions coming from others.

But that is cosmetic because behind the fascia of social interaction, there is the mind’s own responses within itself. There are the movements of emotional and mental energy within the mind itself, such that regardless of the external interactions, the mind continues stirring in itself, the way chemicals percolated within a beaker irrespective of the environment which the beaker sits in.

Two factors come to mind:

·       The mind’s inner turmoil and self-reactionary energies

·       The internal expressions of its opinions and judgement, which create a force which courses outside of the mind and latching on to targeted objects

Both of these are anathema to meditation practice. But teachers rarely mention these. In fact many of the experts have no idea about these and instead offer the overcoating of positive thinking as the ultimate solution.

Imagine some poor quality bronze which is overcoated with a thin veneer of nickel. It looks good but how long will it last.

Patanjali outlawed correct analysis, incorrect analysis, imagination and memory, which means that he condemned the natural mental process as being counterproductive to yoga practice

The mind’s inner turmoil and self-reactionary energies are the bane of higher meditation because in so far as the ascetic can fool himself and others by posing to be in deep meditation, the mind itself is not affected by the ruse. In fact during the said meditation the mind continues its deviant operations with a certain persistence. The mind is definitely not interested in advanced meditation. It may be that it is fearful of real practice, that it senses that it would have to change conventions and would no longer be itself as before, if the yogi were successful.

The internal expressions of the mind’s opinions and judgement create a force which courses outside of the mind and latches on to targeted objects. This means that internal expressions may be harmful to one and all. These may be harmful to the targets intended and to the yogi himself or herself from whose mind, such internal expressions originate.

Let us assume that I made an opinion or judgement about someone. I checked and rechecked this. I concluded that the opinion was true. Still that does not mean that it is harmless. Even if it is proven to be a critical but beneficial opinion about the targeted person, still it will be harmful to my meditation practice because it will in the course of time, pop up during efforts to get to a deep level of meditation. It will keep me on a surface level of the mind, engaging in development of the idea further.

Worse of all, material nature will react to expression of that energy by producing a counter force within the mind. The counterforce will negate deep meditation practice.

The fallacy of expression of opinions in the privacy of the mind, is that these energy cause reactions to come to the yogi which disrupt deep meditation practice. The advice is to cease these operations.