Meditation State Related

[Stoica Doru]

Is living in the Present Moment, without any disturbing thoughts, also considered meditation? Some teachers, like Eckhart Tolle, say that you don't need to deliberately force your mind to stop with any technique, as long as you're being fully aware as you are, simply being. 

Meditation in itself it's simply a nonthoughtful state, the act in which is felt rarely being the matter, from what I've seen. One example would be the monks of Mount Hiei, who do some agricultural day to day work as a mean to entering The Now. 

I know that the efficiency might vary, but I'm just curious to what extent would embracing an technique would manifest, apart from being present and still - without any thoughts or emotional repercussions. 

[Garuda]

yes, but many people cannot do that. Meditation is usually needed to get to that state in the first place or to make the now more prevalent .

 

 

Q: How is meditation to be practised?

Ramana.: Meditation is, truly speaking, Atmanishtha (to be fixed as the

Self). But when thoughts cross the mind and an effort is made to

eliminate them the effort is usually termed meditation. Atmanishtha

is your real nature. Remain as you are. That is the aim.