“Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there – buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day” ~ Deepak Chopra
When you meditate, what are you trying to achieve? Quiet? Wisdom? Guidance? Revelation? Oneness with your Creator? Most of the time, meditation is practiced with selfish ambitions and an extreme self-centered desire for gain. It would be best if you learned to meditate with no ambition or desire for gain. In these moments, you can tap into the Spirit world without expectation, ready to receive what the Divine has to offer.
The world demands much from us. Individualism, consumerism, materialism, and human secularism have deep roots embedded into our souls. To delusion is that to survive and prosper in our culture, we must become competitive and willing to do whatever is necessary to get ahead and achieve more. In the world of the Spirit, this approach is ineffective. Meditation requires letting go of these attitudes and ambitions and prepares us to experience what only the world of the Spirit can deliver.
When you meditate, you must expect a zero-sum outcome. For the Spirit deep inside you to win, the worldliness deep inside you must lose. If you approach meditation in this manner, with no demand for gain or unreasonable expectations, you will experience intimacy with your Creator. If you approach meditation with an extremely self-centered attitude and the desire for gain, you will walk away restless, irritable, and discontent.
When the soul is preoccupied with gaining and winning at all costs, it sabotages what we desire most: to grow spiritually. The world of the Spirit is the realm where we learn to grow in understanding and effectiveness. Our approach to the Spirit world is antithetical to the secular world system. Therefore, the only way to maximize our meditation efforts and experience the world of the Spirit profoundly and effectively is the zero-sum approach.
Holy Spirit, thank You for being my friend, counselor, and advocate. As I prepare myself to meet You in the center of my soul, please remove the selfishness, worldliness, and desire for gain from my psyche so that I may experience the divine in the most profound way possible. In Your Spirit and Name, I pray these things. May Your will not mine always materialize, now and forever. Amen.
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