Assume the State

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I like to use Sam Harris neuroscientist app called Waking Up. He has an introductory meditation course on there and there’s also daily meditations.

Sometimes in the daily meditation he says something like: “Alright, take a seat, get comfortable and now just try to arrive immediately.”

And I found that so interesting when I first heard him say that.

I had been practicing meditation for quite awhile or quite a few years but I never thought to just arrive immediately as soon as I sat down like trying to go to that place or move to that state, that is the state that is desired, a relaxed calm state. The state of being aware of your own breath and consciousness. Metawareness if you will.

If you are already in contact with that state or a practiced being with that state you might find that yes, it is actually that simple. Just arrive.

Be in that place. Now some months ago I was practicing guru identification as I identified in that episode Being Baba Muktananda. And I talked about, sitting in meditation I focused and asked my self the question what is it to be Baba Muktananda and I ask it over and over.

The one thing, this is a really important thing, that Baba would not ask himself what it is to be like Baba. He doesn’t have to, he already knows he is Baba.

I thought ok, I have to do it on a deeper level, I have to assume I am Baba. Place that assumption in the background of my consciousness.

A few months later I was in another meditation and I think I was focusing on the place Baba describes on Play on Consciousness, the place of perfected beings. Its called Siddhaloka in Sanskrit. This is the place where all saints go when they die.

I was focusing on that place, repeating that to myself Siddhaloka Siddhaloka. I think ok, I don’t need to repeat it, what might serve me better is to assume that I am already there.

So I start doing that and start actively assuming that is putting the intention in my mind of assumption and I think “if its really that deeply assumed, I wouldn’t need to actively assume it, I wouldn’t need to present this preverbal thought in my head to be there, all I would have to do is to notice it.

To notice I am already in that place, that place I carry with me. I wonder about this sometimes when I start blessing something.

If I am seated in prayer and praying for a friend that is in distress, mental anguish or physical pain, someone who has lost a loved one or the loved one who leaves this world.

To bless something perhaps isn’t something active at all, all it means to bless, perhaps, is to reveal and notice that holy part that already exists.

Assume the state, assume the blessing, notice what already exists.