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  • What Is the Mind?

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    The mind is your past—memories, knowledge, experiences, regrets.And the mind is also your future—hopes, fears, projections, fantasies. We plan our future using pieces of the past—choosing the joyful moments and trying to avoid the painful ones. But the future becomes just a refined repetition of the past, dressed in new clothes. This is why you…

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  • Is Meditation a Belief?

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    No—meditation is not a belief. A belief simply means: you don’t know, but you believe anyway.My whole effort is to help you never to believe in anything unless you directly know it. Once you know something, belief becomes irrelevant. Belief is a substitute for truth. I aim to destroy all belief systems—and I offer you…

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  • Is It Possible to Meditate Without Any Technique?

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    This question is deeply important, because meditation in its essence requires no technique at all. Meditation is pure awareness, simple presence, an effortless alertness. Awareness is not something you do—it is something you allow. It is not a technique. However, techniques are needed—not for meditation itself, but to remove the obstacles that block meditation from…

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  • Do I Need to Make an Effort to Be Aware?

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    Awareness does not come through effort. In fact, if you try to be aware, you create inner tension—because all effort breeds tension. When you try to force awareness, you end up struggling with yourself. But awareness is not something to be forced or produced. It is not a by-product of striving. Awareness is the natural…

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  • How to Know If You Are Making Progress in Meditation

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    When you are meditating or working on yourself and begin to wonder whether you’re making any progress, understand this clearly: if you’re truly progressing, you won’t need to ask. Because when real progress happens, you know it. Why is this so? Think of it like recovering from an illness. When you start to heal, you…

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  • How will meditation solve your problems?

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    Problems surround us constantly. Even if you manage to resolve one, another soon takes its place. It seems like an endless cycle. And no matter how hard you try, you cannot prevent problems from arising. They will continue to emerge—until you discover something deeper: the power of witnessing. This is the golden key uncovered through…

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  • Will meditation help me to be happy?

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    Many people ask whether meditation will help them become happy. They say they are un happy and want a meditation technique to fix it. But the first step isn’t meditation—it’s understanding why one is unhappy. If the root causes of unhappiness are not removed, meditation may offer only a superficial relief. It’s like placing a…

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  • Is Twenty Minutes of Meditation a Day Enough?

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    This question misses a fundamental point: meditation is not something that should be confined to a specific time slot. It must become your very way of living. One of the great misunderstandings of the past has been precisely this — the belief that meditation means doing something for a few minutes, a few times a…

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  • Why Meditate?

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    Meditation is a journey inward—a returning to the innermost core of your being. When you discover the center of your existence, you discover both your roots and your wings. The roots ground you in existence, making you whole, authentic, and truly individual. The wings arise from the fragrance of your inner connection—with freedom, love, compassion,…

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  • What is not Meditation

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    There are many ideas—often contradictory—about what meditation truly is. In His Holiness’s approach, meditation begins not by fighting the mind, but by understanding its nature.Most of the time, we are driven by our thoughts and emotions. We mistake ourselves for them. But meditation is the state of simply being—pure experience, untouched by interference from the…

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