While meditating, if you find it difficult to observe your breath - relax. Take a few deep cleansing breaths. As you continue to breathe abdominally (while inhaling take the abdomen out; while exhaling bring the abdomen in), observe each body part, moving from the crown of your head to your toes. Take your time, until you feel a sense of silence dawning upon your mind.
All problems arise from the mind, which has been trained over time to unconsciously support the root of the ego-self, the pseudo-self.
Until the mind is purged of its impurities, of the dross collected over your whole lifetime, until it can find something Higher to surrender to, until it becomes silent; the clinging, craving, crying, demanding, fearing continues to take the individual on a roller coaster ride.
The best way to purge yourself, is to realize that anything that bothers you, is NOT YOU. It is your ego, your conditioned mind, your mind attached to the past and future. It is your mind that is not in the Moment.
To unfetter yourself you need to recognize the Self that transcends all these fleeting thoughts and emotions.
Ego demands endlessly. It has a hunger that can never be appeased. You keep filling it, but it is never content. It only gives you a momentary feeling of apparent fulfillment; then it sends you off on the next pursuit, then the next, all due to its own sense of lacking. The cycle never stops. Ego never wants to die.
When you focus on your physical body, gradually you move into the space beyond the physiology and anatomical knowledge that you have gained over time. You move into direct experience, the experience of the moment. You feel the vibrations and sensations of the body, which become a doorway to the now.
The mind begins to quiet, experience deepens; it begins silencing the mind. When the mind stops taking you to the dead past and the uncertain future, when the mind has nothing more to cling to, it ceases its identification and modifications. There is a sudden stillness. In that stillness, in the now, in the eternal 'moment' is the death of the ego, and the resurrection of the Spirit, the Soul, the Universal Self that is beyond dualism.
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