Page 27 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 4
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MEDITATION
Meditation has been defined as emptying of the content of consciousness. This is the meaning and the depth of meditation, the emptying of all the content- thought coming to an end.
Easily said. What are the thoughts we get during meditation? The nature of thoughts encountered by are all intentional. It is intentional consciousness that we always encounter. The thoughts can be personal-intentional, transpersonal- intentional or universal-intentional.
But what we first encounter are the noises or sounds etc., of the surroundings in which we meditate. For totally annihilating all the thoughts that we encounter during meditation we must understand these thoughts as different from the thoughts that have already become our memory which is a bundle of experiences. Also the valuational judgements we have made on such past experiences and the attitudes and goals that we
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