Does a sixth sense make sense?

The Sixth sense? What is it?

If you develop the five existing senses with the help of meditation,maybe you may also discover your sixth sense.

When you start your meditation, get into your favourite meditation posture and close your eyes.Give your eyes total rest.Enter the blackness and feel the eyelids getting heavy.After meditation,every image  looks sharper.Feel the nerves behind the eyes relaxing.

Now focus attention on the nose.Smell all the smells around you.Feel the warm air as it enters the nostrils.Try and feel the nerves from the nose to the brain.

Now focus on your lips and move your tongue around it and move it at the top of the palate.Feel the nerves behind the tongue.

Now focus on your ears and the sounds all around you.Isolate each sound and then collectively listen to all of them.

Finally,focus  on the skin in contact with the ground or on sensations all over the body as done in Vipaasna meditation.Let the sense of touch become more and more sensitive/awakened.

Do each sense individually and then collectively.

Do this short  meditation of sense awareness at different times  whenever possible.

If you develop the five senses,you may discover the sixth sense.

According to me the sixth sense is a sense of intuition.And this is in a very undeveloped stage in our brain structure.

Why do scientists not work on developing intuition…?

Developing The Distant Gaze

 

Walking on a beach,or jogging in a park,when  crossing  people in the opposite direction,the normal human tendency is to look at the person passing by.

There is a certain mind energy drain in this process as the mind  gets activated  and starts a judgemental process about that person.This starts an unneccessary chain reaction . 

So also ,if you are seated at the back, in a car or a train ,you will see all the advertising billboards passing you by, and your mind will pass silent  comments on them  like good,bad, etc. etc .

To avoid unneccesary mind activity in these type of situations,learn to develop the distant gaze.

The Distant Gaze is to be practiced only when you are on your own.And obviously,not while driving a car.

Look at a faraway point,and let people,buildings,trees,all pass you by.Do not observe any specific particulars.Try and make your mind vacant at that point,like a no-mind meditation.

This will  also develop  a certain detachment. A distancing device that will make you more alert ,more aware,as a witness.It will sharpen your mind as there will be no other mind activity during the period of Distant Gaze.

You often see it in films when a person is in a state of shock.People go out of focus or they hear only distorted sounds because  they are not in full control of their senses.

But  here you are practicing the Distant Gaze, in full control,with great awareness and only during certain periods,when you wish to meditate but cant close your eyes.

The Distant Gaze is a meditation technique with your eyes open.

The real world will slowly become a dream world and the dream world will become more real.

Is there a “best time or best way to meditate”?

Generalisations are generally harmful including this one too.
The best time to meditate would be that when you need it most.
When the balance is shaken up,when the mind is in turmoil,when poisons like anger,hatred,violence,jealosy etc. have got into you and your system.So this is the best time to meditate.Meditation will calm you,and restore your balance and will do you the maximum good.
The beginning of the day, and the end of the day are other obvious choices for the best times but this is a personal decision.
I personally like to meditate at the end of the day,after switching the light off,being engulfed by both darkness and silence.But sometimes,when I am faced with a long car commute,I find there is no better time.

Similarly,there is no one “best way” to meditate.There are hundreds of ways to meditate.Try them all if you like or stick to one if you dont like variety.The important thing is to meditate.How and when is totally your choice.
My favourite is the “no mind” meditation.You close your eyes and enter into the darkness of space within you.
Gratitude to God is my first emotion followed by “no mind” meditation .”No mind” means being devoid of thoughts….a sort of Buddhist concept of filling your mind with emptiness.This means you must not allow any thoughts to take birth.This gives rest to all the thought cells in the brain.Its like shutting off the engine of a car which has been running for a long time and allowing the engine to cool down.
Find a best time and a best way to meditate and then use it as a weapon as well as a fortress as well as a vehicle to reach somewhere as well as a communication device to commune with God.

Dont run away from boredom

Too much of excitement can give you a heart attack.But boredom will never kill you.

So why is everybody so afraid of a little boredom.Just think about it.There are 24 hours in a day.So what if a couple of hours pass by quietly,without too much excitement.Boredom is not a disease.It does not need any cure.Just relax and accept it.Even as I tell you this, you react and say what are you saying? The last twenty years mindset has been if bored then remove it instantly…..watch a sitcom….go to the movies,go to the pub…..but dont accept boredom…..But if you learn to look at boredom as stillness….nothing happening….your whole perspective changes…. and your bored existence becomes a meditative existence…full of meaning…..Even now,you think I am being sarcastic….Believe me,I am serious.Try it out and you will never get bored in life.I am not recommending that you get bored intentionally ,but dont try and artificially liven up your life because you are afraid that people around you will think you are living a boring life.

“The average male gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him”

H.L.Mencken

Dont let it be a natural state,but dont run away from it either.

Make meditation a cure for boredom.

There are so many types of meditations and there is so much already written about it.What I would like to speak about is developing a right attitude towards meditation.
Most people look at meditation as boring.Those looking at others meditating feel “It looks so boring” .And those meditating without the right frame of mind will also feel bored.
Look at meditation differently.
To make the outside world interesting,you fill it with many interesting things-Music,Movies,Food ,Friends,Sex’Love.
To make meditation interesting ,also fill fill it with interesting things.
1.Peace.
2.Silence.
3.Solitude
4.Absence of stress or tension.
5.Prayers and communion with the Divine.

Be creative and add more qualities to meditation and then you will have an enormous weapon at your beck and call to handle life as well as enjoy it .
You have to make meditation the opposite of boredom.When you are bored in the outside world,you go and meditate so that you are recharged and no more bored.Then you give your own meaning.