How to get meditation to work: deconstruction

[UnbornTao]

[James123]

On 7/15/2025 at 2:23 AM, Carl-Richard said:

Sitting meditation, walking meditation, music meditation, chanting meditation, mantra meditation, kundalini meditation, third eye meditation, vipassana meditation, focused attention meditation, open-awareness meditation, TM meditation, ACEM meditation, compassion meditation, devotion meditation. Just on the top of my head late at night while having a cold virus.

Let's also quote directly from all the religious traditions, Eastern and Western. Let's quote Sadhguru. Let's quote all the online non-duality teachers. Let's see how many meditations we can find. Then let's try to claim that meditation is one specific thing and that doing so has any meaning outside being dogmatic about your highly personal interpretation of a word that describes practices that have worked for you in your own life.

What worked for me is, constantly being aware and witness in the thoughts that arises in the moment and sometimes keep chanting "LA ilahe illallah" during the day every moment (whatever I was doing). At night, just sitting the silence and darkness.