One of the first things you require for true meditation is the correct mental attitude, especially one of listening.  Most people rarely listen.  They are deaf to the symphony of sounds around them. 

They are also deaf to other folks, since they are more concerned in speaking their own minds.  They treat their own conscience as though it were a fault to be overpowered. 

They behave as though they are perpetually crusading for their own ideas.  Like punters at a horse race, they keep betting the “right” horse to win.

The process is ceaseless.  Every horizon reached, if it ever is achieved, only opens up fresh panoramas of expectation and of hopeful thinking.  Some people, when an especially precious hope ceases, experience the balance of their lives in a wonderful never-never land of Might-Have-Been.

For a couple of minutes every day, why not give this process a rest?  Stop decreeing your thoughts to the world.  There’s a state of consciousness that comes before the very process of thinking. 

Seek that.  It lies in inner calmness. Granted this state isn’t easy to find.  One thing that will assist you to find it, however, is listening.

Take heed of your thoughts.  Listen to what is; don’t continue insisting on what you think ought to be.  Tune in to affairs as they are.  Condition your mind to accept what plainly is. 

Meditation is the contrary of inflicting your will on the world.  Forgo, even for just a couple of minutes, the process of dreaming up plans and projects for the future.  Be more, not less, aware, however. 

Just as I recommended that you act calmly, so also, during moments of calmness, be dynamically cognisant.

In dawning calmness you might find yourself, at the start, tempted to doze off passively into a sort of semi-subconscious state.  There’s a indisputable restfulness in this state, as there is in sleep. 

It is a impermanent rest, however; it doesn’t refresh the spirit.  Nor has it power to improve your life, as super-consciousness has.  Subconsciously evoked rest depresses your degree of energy and will power, and makes you subject to circumstances over which you should be gaining command. 

It takes a strong will, generating great energy, to rise above, or even to
calm, life’s storms.

The calmness born of deep meditation represents a higher degree of consciousness, and therefore of will and energy, than any experienced in lower states. 

Meditation-born calmness will enable you not merely to stay calm during periods of time of intense activity, but also to face, and bear with wise apprehension, the trials and tribulations of life.

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