The Difference Between Static and Dynamic Meditation

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When an individual sits for
meditation, does he come out of

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the meditation changed in some
way?

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Or as meditation, something like
a state of stasis where time

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goes by but nothing happens.
Is the individual taking a

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timeout from life, but not
moving the purpose and focus of

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the life forward.
These questions arise when we

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examine the statements of those
who attempt meditation and who

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report they simply saw rounds of
thoughts and sense, Impressions

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impinging on them and that they
wound up following these until

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they noticed it and then tried
to draw back until the next

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ones, captured them or else that
they found they were simply

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nodding off.
Many people who take up

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meditation report, they may feel
more relaxed or peaceful at the

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end, but realistically, their
actions afterwards have not

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changed in any meaningful way.
As with anything, an individual

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does in his life, there is a
reason or motive behind it.

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If one begins meditation without
a clear sense of purpose without

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an aspiration directed.
That purpose, then it tends to

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Simply Be static and does not
Aid much.

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If at all in the actualization
of The Seekers ultimate purpose

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in the life.
This leads to the question of

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whether meditation can be
dynamic and focused without

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simply becoming another vehicle
of expressing some form of vital

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ambition.
Ultimately everyone acts in the

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world.
The action can be motivated by

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ego and vital ambition, but it
can also be directed toward a

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higher aspiration and the
transformation of human life.

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It can be an attempt to deny
life or an attempt to affirm

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life.
Everything depends on the

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direction and sincerity of The
Seekers motivation in the

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action, a disciple asks, what
does SRI aurobindo mean by a

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self Dinah mising meditation?
The mother responds quote.

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It is a meditation that has the
power of transforming your

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being.
It is a meditation which makes

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you progress as opposed to
static meditation, which is

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immobile and relatively inert,
and which changes nothing in

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your Consciousness or in your
way of being a dynamic

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meditation, is a meditation of
transformation.

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Generally people don't have a
dynamic meditation when they

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enter into meditation, or at
least what they call meditation.

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They enter into a kind of
immobility where nothing stirs

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and they come out of it.
Exactly.

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As they went in without any
change, either in their being or

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in their Consciousness and the
more motionless, it is, the

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happier they are.
They could meditate in this way

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for eternity'.
It would never change anything

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either in the universe or in
themselves.

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That is why SRI aurobindo speaks
of a dynamic meditation, which

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is exactly the very opposite.
It is a transforming meditation

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in quote reference SRI aurobindo
in the mother growing within the

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psychology of inner development.
Chapter 5 growth of

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Consciousness means and methods
Pages 87 to 88.