Mindfulness Meditation: Journey Into Consciousness

By Kery Ervin

Our sufferings can be derived from getting completely lost in the whirlpool of our racing thoughts and in the emotional storms of our hearts. The torrents of our thoughts and emotions overwhelm us. So we feel stressed and unhappy.

In the state of pure consciousness we are calm, peaceful observers of all the things that happen inside us and in the world, but we do not get lost in them. We do not suffer: mostly we are happy, we are creative and we live in the flow of life..

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tudatosság.Könyvek Kiadó
• Release date: Oct 22, 2018
• ISBN: 9781973935070

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CONTENTS

THE FORGOTTEN SECRET

Preface

There is a mysterious something inside of you:

The Consciousness.

You can call it soul, human spirit, real Self or simply yourself. This consciousness looks through your eyes, reads these lines and understands their meaning.

I ask you, please turn your attention inwards now and look for:

Who or what reads these lines through your eyes?

Who is aware of your thoughts and feels your emotions?

Who you really are?

Don’t think about it, just experience it!

The consciousness is the greatest scientific and spiritual mystery of the 21st century. Quantum physics and avant-garde psychology deal with it, it is an excellent medical therapy method known as mindfulness, and it plays the main role in most of the Eastern religions.

This book is also about Consciousness.

It’s an instruction manual, a guide to your true Self, to the awakened consciousness.

If you are looking for your real Self beyond your social roles, look no further. It was in you all along; it is still in you and will be – explore your true Self!

Your soul, your human spirit has been with you in your whole life. As the time passed, the cells of your body have been constantly replacing themselves, your thoughts have changed a lot, and the depth of your feelings has also became different. Only your consciousness has remained: it was the same all the time.

The same I am-feeling and knowing lives in you as a child, teenager, adult and elderly. And the same I am-feeling and knowing lives in every living body.

We function in a peculiar way as humans: even though there is always only now, only the present moment exists, our minds tend to wander in the past or daydream of the future. The lights are seemingly on in our bodies, but we are not at home. The many-many thoughts and emotions carry us away and we get thoroughly stunned and taken away by the vortex of thoughts and emotions.

First these stunned moments only take a short while, but they gradually get longer and longer, until we spend more time in this stupefied state than in the present moment.

We do not perceive the reality as it really is.

We observe ourselves and the world through the colorful lenses of our thoughts and emotions – we create a perfectly unique world, where I am better, more beautiful, smarter, wealthier, more religious, or simply less lucky than you. A rose is only an average, boring rose, a notion, and therefore we fail to discover its unrivaled beauty. The believer draws sword to destroy the non-believer or the one who has different beliefs; the politician declares war in order to protect his system of belief. Conflicts, wars, blood and suffering – we ended up deep in the marshes of our thoughts and emotions. The human mind’s abnormal functioning has become a real problem to these days: millions of deaths in a century and the Earth in decay both draw attention to this fact.

The common goal of humanity is to pass beyond the abnormal mind functioning as soon as possible, to transcend the thought.

The solution is awakened consciousness: when we are observers, rather than slaves of our thoughts and emotions.

Our world, driven by the mind, is noisy, bleak, boring, burned out, exhausted, stressed and nervous – we are constantly exposed to the expectations, judgments, orders of the programmed little me inside us. And since we live mostly in our heads, we are exposed to the tyrannical rule of the always worrying and sheltering thought-system (ego) from dawn to dusk.

The medicine to all our problems is awakened consciousness.

The art of observing ourselves and our spinning and whirling thoughts without letting them carry us away. This way we recognize our real selves, we learn how to observe the world through the lenses of the human spirit and to throw ourselves into the helter-skelter of life with full attention.

So a fundamental peace, calmness and openness develop inside us and we gladly participate in the flow of life.

Who are you really?

The Mysteries of our Body

Our sensory organs tell us that our body is solid and permanent. In reality, however, our body changes permanently, like the currents of a river.

Upon taking a breath, 1.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 atoms arrive into our body, they are incorporated into our cells, and the same amount leaves our body when we breathe out. 98% of the atoms of our body is replaced in a period shorter than a year: the liver is completely renewed in 6 weeks, the skin in days, the bones are fully replaced in 3 months, and the genetic endowment DNA is renewed in 6 weeks. The atoms of your body as it existed a year ago are now all outside of your present body: in the atmosphere, in the soil or incorporated into other living organisms, grass and trees... that is how the entire planet recycles itself in a perpetual cycle. We live in close interconnection and interaction with all other things, everything is in the state of a constant change and transformation.

The only permanent thing is change. We still tend to experience the permanence of our Self. Is it possible that we are not identical with our body?

In the Captivity of Thoughts

What are thoughts? The philosopher Descartes announced that, I think, therefore I am! This erroneous assumption influences our identity even in the present day. Our thoughts, just like the cells of our body, are constantly replaced with new ones; a thought emerges and then vanishes, and new thoughts and ideas, associated with the previous one, appear in a constant stream. Among the thought there is a small gap, a little space. This space is the space of Consciousness, in which a thought can appear.

We are proud of being able to think. But are we really the ones who think? Are we really in control of our thoughts, are we the ones who intend to think? It is not we who think, but the thoughts keep us under control with its compelling force. It is the constant stream of thoughts that cover up the existence of the Consciousness. That is why Mediaeval mysticists used to say: Between you and God there is only a thought.

The Pitfall of our Emotions

Emotions work in a similar manner: they emerge and vanish in the space of the Consciousness.

Emotions, at the same time, influence our lives to a large extent: they are able to generate lasting addiction. Every emotion has its own neuropeptide, a type of hormone, which is created by the brain and sent to our cells through the circulation of blood. These peptides are very powerful chemicals, and if they keep bombarding our cells for an extended period of time, they induce addiction. Once you have become addicted, you will unconsciously strive to create situations in your life in which you are able to satisfy your addiction. If you are -for instance- an anger-addict, you will seek situations in which the anger-peptide addiction of your cells will be satisfied.

Our body is not constant, it is continually renewed–we therefore cannot be identical with our body. Our emotions and thoughts are not constant either. What we refer to as Self, on the other hand, exists permanently.

The time has come to ask the question: if we are identical neither with the constantly changing body nor with the similarly changing thoughts and emotions, WHO WE REALLY ARE?

The Realm of the Ultimate Mystery

Science has studied the world down to the tiniest detail: the human body was dissected to organs and to cells, way down to the cell nucleus. But when the parts of the body are put together again, only a lifeless puppet is there–life somehow escapes during dissection.

We know everything about the structure of the eyes of a common mouse, all that knowledge is there, wrapped up in Latin terms, figures, statistics and equations. But the thing we still know only very little of, and what is likely one of the last great challenges for the science of the 21st century is Consciousness itself.

Two young fish are swimming and they meet an elder fish. The water is very pleasant today, isn’t it? the elder fish greets them politely. The two young fish swim on, and after a while one of them asks. Water? What is water?

Consciousness is through and by which we live and experience ourselves and the surrounding world. Since we swim in it, we are unable to recognize it. Consciousness is the space itself in which sensations, emotions and thoughts appear, and the mental image we create of the world is projected into the immense space of the Consciousness.

Sensations, emotions and thoughts keep streaming into our Consciousness, and as we focus on these contents, we ignore the space itself, which is the container of the contents. This conscious space is our ultimate Self..

THE END OF „MY STORY"

How did my life collapse?

I was sitting in a dark room in the heart of the always busy capital and I was tormented by emotional agony.

Everything I had ever believed in collapsed.

My life, my job, my career, my relationship - all shattered with an ear-splitting crash.

Bitterness choked my throat and troubling questions emerged at the same time: Why did this have to happen this way? Why does the fate punish me so? I failed during the hard trials and fell into deep water. I could find no point of my life anymore and sunk deep in my self-pity, when a thought conceived: I cannot live like this any more.

While I was suffering in the deepest hell of self-pity, sorrow and hopelessness, and intensified the raging madness inside me by picturing the script of my own funeral, something unexpected and life-changing happened:

I fell into nothingness.

The fall into nothingness

I am