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Looking at this question
what bought me to a meditative experience
I have to look back forty some years when my older sister freshly returning from Toronto with news of this meditation
(as she termed it "receiving knowledge") and an announcement of a big festival happening in Huston, which we all should come to.
Wikipedia explains the festival as such:
"Millennium '73"
The 1973 Hans Jayanti festival was held at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas, and publicized as "Millennium '73". The free three-day event was billed as "the most significant event in human history" that would herald "a thousand years of peace for people who want peace", the idea being that peace would come to the world as individuals experienced inner peace.
The whole trip was magical and a very high time. At the festival I got into a session to receive "knowledge"/the meditation techniques.
When I first got the technique on inner music, I cried because it was so beautiful and even to this day I use this technique to go to that beautiful, peaceful spot inside.
After this, the course of my life was changed. I wanted to be with the Premies (those who had received Knowledge/meditation techniques.) I left my boyfriend and moved into an ashram where we had daily group meditation and satsang. People from the community would come and it was blissful to be in this environment.
But, alas, it couldn't last, other major incidences were occurring in my life and I ended up moving out of the ashram into a premie house where my new boyfriend was living. We were going to realize this knowledge together.
This was not to be either, as I was getting a bit crazy trying so hard to realize this knowledge, but going about it in the wrong way.
Things were getting out of control and I ended up moving back home for some time, backing off the meditation.
I never got back into it again until some twenty years later, after I'd been married, had a child, got divorced and met my now husband.
He had developed a very strong meditative practice and I was looking into different Buddhists texts trying to find out more about the Buddhist philosophy. He also had a wonderful Dhamma library which he shared with me and I began to learn about the middle path.
I took a Vipassana meditation course and that became my meditation practice, where I could take refuse. It bought me peace and happiness, allowed me to remain calm through many adversities and to become so much more aware and able to respond to situations instead of reacting to them.
I had written earlier about more benefits this meditation practice had bought me at: https://steemit.com/ecotrain/@porters/what-my-meditation-practise-has-bought-to-me
I can't image my life with out this meditation and I see it becoming a bigger and bigger part of my life.
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