SNAP MEDITATION - MEDITATION EXPRESS  

Since yoga established itself in the West, and meditation entered the doors of our hospitals, it has become a major center of interest, for reasons which often have nothing philosophical or spiritual.

There are in fact several kinds of meditations and many methods.

In Hindu meditation, there are basically three stages:

• the first which is a fixed, focused attention, anchored on sensory and mental objects, it's dharana,

• lthe third which is pure attention, without form and without object, awake presence, sparkling and silent, and fusion-reunion of the observer and the observed, it is samadhi.

These three steps integrate to achieve samyama full awareness and awakening.

Hindu dharana and dhyana are similar to samatha bhavana and samadhi to vipassana bhavana (in Theravada Buddhist meditation)

The resulting action is “yoga” (in the original sense).

In fact, the 8 components of Ashtanga yoga should be considered inseparable from meditation (yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, dyana and samadhi)

But whether one is interested in meditation through Hinduism, Buddhism, MBSR or a tradition that does not use this word but practices it, it takes time, a lot of time.

Do we have time when there is an emergency?

When we realize that the subconscious is a thousand times more present in our lives than the conscious, is there not an awakening, a strong stimulus, which decides us to change this urgently?

It is true that if this is so, the fate of the people who feed on our problems (and make them last in one form or another) will not be as enviable, but our only risk is to be free, and is there any reason to be afraid of it?

Why is it so long, so tedious, is it to give coaches or other gurus time to develop themselves?

Is it really that difficult?

Or is it simply because we have forgotten one essential thing: we already know how to meditate, but we no longer know how to recognize when and how.

The goal of snap meditation (meditation express) is to make us remember in a snap these moments of meditation, of full attention which dot our daily lives and which we nevertheless ignore.

So there is nothing new to learn, but a new appropriation of what you already are, a change of labeling, a consolidation of what is already functional, although not in the right place.

And it's much faster...

More information to come on this site (meditationexpress in French) and on www.sadhakaacademy.com