You have to walk the Path yourself
On determination, illusion and shortcuts.
Nothing is easier than meditating, and yet everything else seems to be more important, better or faster. There is something that dies when you meditate and the problems disappear. All you need is determination, and everything changes.
About this Video:
I can't meditate - I hear that all the time. Why is such a simple thing, which solves all problems and where you can do absolutely nothing wrong, seemingly so difficult?
While I answer questions from completely different areas of life in this video, the answer crystallizes itself. It was about whether there are better ways for women than meditation, about insomnia caused by meditation, about psychoactive substances and about the despair that comes when you lose confidence in life. In each of these situations, meditation seems impossible or inappropriate for different reasons.
Swamiji, the Indian guru whose disciple I am, says: all the questions we have about meditation are just an excuse not to meditate. Maybe you feel this inside you too: there is something that tries to prevent us from wanting to meditate. Because if we do, it is the end of this identification with the body; the beginning of the end of the ego.
And when you sit down to meditate anyway, against your inner resistance, you often encounter unexpected effects at first: unpleasant feelings come knocking. In one way or another, your body and mind resist allowing you to go inwards and into silence.
This is the one thing that everyone has to do for themselves: to muster the inner determination to simply sit down for half an hour a day and meditate, no matter how. That's all you have to do. It changes everything. And I would like to give you a little encouragement and inspiration for this in this video.
