AN AMAZING “SECRET” BENEFIT OF DAILY MEDITATION IS SEEING YOUR LIFE FROM AN EVER HIGHER PERSPECTIVE
One of the major benefits of developing your own prayer and meditation practice is that you slowly and steadily become more and more conscious and see your life from an ever higher perspective.
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MEDITATION TRAINING INTENSIVE # 14 Stories by Chinmayan about the amazing results and benefits from developing your own personal soul satisfying and life transforming authentic meditation practice
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ONE OF THE NATURAL RESULTS FROM DAILY MEDITATION PRACTICE IS SEEING LIFE FROM AN EVER HIGHER PERSPECTIVE
One of the unexpected benefits of developing your own prayer and meditation practice that you rarely hear about is that you slowly and steadily begin to become more and more conscious and to see life from an ever higher perspective.
You do not need to make effort to achieve this…it will happen naturally just by doing your daily practice.
A traditional analogy is that launching your own daily meditation practice is like growing an apple tree from a seed.
Once you decide that you want to harvest apples from your own tree, you plant an apple seed.
Then you water it daily and watch it grow gradually over time from a little sprout to a full grown tree, which then blossoms in spring.
“Apple blossoms in the gentle rebirth of Spring”
Each of those flowers slowly become big plump apples which, when they are ripe, fall into your hands to be eaten or made into preserves or apple pies…whatever you like.
And will keep on growing, blossoming and making delicious apples for a lifetime.
“The harvest is rich and bountiful”
When you decide to develop your own personal meditation practice—which is, by the way, one of the best decisions you will ever make in this lifetime, it is like planting a seed in the soil of your own heart.
If you give it the care and daily attention it needs and deserves, this seed of intention to meditate day after day will sprout and begin to grow.
It will put out roots in all directions, and it will rise through the ground of your life, nurtured by the sunlight of your loving intention.
Once it is firmly established, with its leaves outstretched to be nourished by the light within, it will naturally continue growing through all the seasons…and one day it starts blessing you with the fruits of a stable and determined meditation practice.
You can absolutely count on these blessings and benefits naturally resulting from your practice if you take care of it properly.
YOUR MEDITATION PRACTICE WILL GROW GRADUALLY DAY BY DAY
Just as an apple seed will slowly grow over time to the day it produces delicious and nourishing fruit, so will your meditation practice grow and mature to produce a bountiful harvest of spiritual fruit.
The beautiful thing is that this happens naturally.
I tell those who take our “Foundations Of The Spiritual Path Course” or our “Meditation Training Intensive Course” that these benefits and positive results will certainly develop, but that you must be patient.
As long as you take care of your practice and maintain a daily meditation momentum, the results and benefits will come just as certainly as the apple tree will produce a bumper crop of delicious apples in due course…
As long as you Persevere with patience and dedication!
Everything worth having or doing in this world takes steady and sustained effort over time.
As long as you do your practice sincerely and as we teach you, I know with certainty that you will grow to absolutely LOVE it and it will become one of the most treasured elements in your life!
My first spiritual Teacher, Kalu Rinpoche would often say:
“In your meditation practice, neither be hopeful or hopeless.
Be patient but expectant and open.
Have faith in your practice without pushing too hard or relaxing too much. Simply do your practice daily as you have been taught and results will certainly come.
Until your practice matures, you will not have the ability to see the developments your practice is bringing because they will be slow, subtle and steady…
Like a ship in the middle of the ocean with no land in sight, just keep on sailing on and you will reach the harbor.”
“The only way that your dharma practice will not bear fruit is that you either stop practicing or don’t begin in the first place!“
—Kalu Rinpoche
Credit: Self Realization Fellowship
Original Revelations Poem and Calligraphy by Chinmayan
“When God is the center and focus of my life, everything else falls into its rightful place.”
—Chinmayan
Chinmayan teaching during our “Meditation Training Intensive Course”, our training program for anyone who wants to launch and develop their own personal soul satisfying and life changing daily meditation practice.
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