The Art of Prayer and Meditation

Life is something each of us is in search of, we try to experience it, understand it, sometimes we try to win and sometimes we lose, life is neither direct nor often easy until we begin to understand what life is for us personally.

Your life is waiting to be understood, and to be lived. In your search for life have you ever stopped to pray or mediate, to try and make sense of everything? Maybe you have done this without really realising it? Maybe you were desperate, unhappy, drunk or alone. Whatever you feel, wherever you are, whatever you are doing or what is been done to you, prayer is already there within you, communicating in a way that you will eventually understand.

More so consider this…What is prayer? Prayer is all of everything talking away, whispering to you waiting for you to hear and communicate back, yes prayer is communication with your inner self and that lives and affects every other thing, living, inanimate, the known and the unknown. Prayer is the craft of creative thought.

Some people think that you have to grab life moment by moment and to live in the ‘now.’ Others feel that there is a plan, or a reason for each and every thing that takes place in our lives. Others think that it’s all random and due to chance, while others believe politics or social change gives life significance.

We were born into life but sometimes feel separate from life. We feel observers, looking out at life and not feeling the vibrancy and simplicity of life as it really is.

Have you ever felt life is just passing you by? That no matter what you do, nothing changes and sometimes ‘it’ all seems too much. People say that they live in the moment, grabbing the ‘now’ and that life is beautiful. Essentially it is but sometimes it can be shockingly violent, cruel, full of unhappiness and suffering.

The fact is that there is no one life to be lived, but many lives all intertwined, lives of ease and hardship and lives of fame and infamy, of wealth and poverty and lives of the ordinary and the unknown.
All of these are connected, reflections of the same impulse, for human consciousness to express it self in accord with the consciousness that is the foundation of everything.Life is not just a series of events but also a series of beliefs and how you respond to the beliefs you hold.

The world, we are told, is illusory, not real, but of course it feels real, looks solid and is if a bus runs you down. There are wars, starvation, terrorism and global warming; these seem real, don’t they? Yes, they are real with in a slim dimension of the material world, and all of us are influenced by each and every action and thought of the other.

Why is the world so real and yet an illusion, because illusion is real and this is how it happens? Our brains take in billions amounts of information every microsecond, so much so that in order to stop itself from overloading, our brain stops, pauses for a microsecond, and in that miniscule gap, our world is made. The world of cars, TV, money, mortgages, natural beauty and the larger universe.

Everyone’s brain in the world pauses at the same time, we are all connected. So this means that what we think of as the present or ‘now’ is in fact the past. We have a group pause, a making of the past, yet as we are all different we only see a strand of it.

The minds that each of us have are wonderful expressions of consciousness and life’s experiences as our bodies but they are the vehicles of the illusory world, the world that we are in to learn how to be more human and more complete.

Because as our brain pauses for even a microsecond processing ‘old’ information, just like the sunlight we feel or the starlight or moonlight we appreciate is already old, we are living in the illusion of the present, all we have is the past, the gap in which our personalities, lives and planet occupy. In order to go beyond this illusion into a transcendental truth we need to learn about prayer and meditation. People often get confused over these.

Prayer is a natural communication with your inner self and multiple layers of the universe. Meditation is not this. Meditation is not something that you can do or practice. The techniques that people do to meditate are merely devices.

Meditation exists within you. It already is. It dwells within you. So take the time to learn the art of becoming human through prayer and meditation.

In order to learn these approaches to your consciousness stop and listen to the self within that is already in prayer, already in meditation.