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Powerful Methods for Awakening
These are not really meditations. You are just getting in tune. If you have seen Indian classical musicians playing you will notice that for half an hour, or sometimes even more, they simply go on adjusting their instruments. They will move the knobs, they will make the strings tight or loose, and the drum player will go on checking his drum, whether it is perfect or not. For half an hour they go on doing this. This is not music, this is just preparation.
The first part of one of the active meditations, for example, is not really meditation. It is just preparation. You are preparing your instrument. When it is ready, then you stand in silence, then meditation starts. Then you are utterly there. You have woken yourself up by jumping, by dancing, by breathing, by shouting—these are all devices to make you a little more alert than you ordinarily are. Once you are alert, then the waiting. Waiting is meditation.
Waiting with full awareness. And then it comes, it descends on you, it surrounds you, it plays around you, it dances around you, it cleanses you, it purifies you, it transforms you.
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