Table of Contents
- Question: What is the best way to meditate?
- Question: How do I begin meditation?
- Question: When we are learning to meditate, what sort of questions should we ask?
- Question: I would like to know what teaching you give for obtaining a good state of meditation.
- Question: In order to practise meditation with one Master, do you advise giving up all the other spiritual paths?
- The only thing I know
- Question: How should I do meditation if I have never done it before?
- Please address
- Question: I have never been to your Centre before. I have read a few books but I'm a beginner in meditation.
- Question: Is it good for one to be with other spiritual people?
- Question: I attend the meditation here at the college once a week but I feel I need more spiritual nourishment. If I try to meditate alone, it's different. I feel that there is something I am losing.
- Question: Why do we have to meditate every day?
- God and I meet together
- Question: I have recently become your disciple. Does what you say about meditating when you get up apply to disciples or do you have a different standard for them?
- Question: Why should someone meditating alone in his room be bothered by the agitation of the world outside in the street, especially if he can't hear it from his room?
- Why
- Question: Why is it necessary to have flowers, incense and so forth in order to meditate?
- Question: Should a person be alone when he meditates, or does it have anything to do with environment? Do you advise him to be in a big crowd or do you want him to shut himself away all alone?
- Question: Can we meditate while lying down? Is this not the best way to relax?
- Two machines
- Question: I don't seem to feel comfortable and relaxed while meditating in a sitting position.
- Question: Is the lotus position the most comfortable one for meditation?
- Question: I read a book about concentration and meditation that said one should pay attention to the direction one faces while meditating, whether East, West, North or South. If one wants spiritual things and a quiet life, one should always face North. If one wants worldly things one should face East.
- Question: I wonder if you could tell me something about inner discipline.
- Question: To start meditation, do you discipline yourself through will or do you joyfully start?
- Three sons
- Question: When you meditate, do you reject thoughts or do you think?
- What are you doing?
- Question: How do you go about emptying your mind in order to be able to meditate?
- Question: How do you do it?
- Question: Can we do our meditation without doing concentration exercises first?
- Question: I am a musician and I would like to know your ideas on concentration. When we study music we realise that we need a great deal of concentration. I would like to know how you develop concentration.
- Why do you hide?
- Question: I'd like to develop better concentration so that I can keep my mind focused on one thought.
- Question: How do you apply that way of concentrating to a chapter of a book that you have to study?
- Question: I would like you to teach me that mantra.
- Question: How can we meditate better each time?
- Question: Is meditation our duty?
- Question: What do you mean when you say that dedication is meditation?
- Question: What happens if after meditating for a while, you decide you want to take a rest and then continue your journey at a later time?
- Question: Do you pray sometimes?
- Question: Is there a method whereby if one does not have patience for meditation, he could use hypnosis or self-hypnosis instead to quiet the mind so his soul can come forward?
- Question: Do you feel pain while you are meditating? Do you feel any pain? If someone hit you, would you feel pain?
- If I can
- Editor's preface to the first edition
