JESUS ON MEDITATION
In Luke 12: 35-40 Jesus says “Keep watch, the master must not find you asleep” keeping watch: i.e. watching the mind, is the practice of meditation, the master is our Christ or higher consciousness. When we operate out of lower consciousness we are “asleep”.
In the Garden of Gethsemane Jesus tells his disciples to stay here and watch with me; watch and pray that you do not enter into temptation: Matthew 26:38, 41. The danger, the temptation, is the ever present allure of the mind; the temptation to get lost in thought.
In Luke 12:22-25 Jesus instructs his disciples to stay out of the thinking mind which gives rise to worries: take no thought for your life, what you shall eat…what you shall wear…which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
And Jesus instructed his disciples in non-doing: consider the lilies how they grow, they toil not; they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon I all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Luke 12:27
In the story of Martha and Mary Jesus is quite explicit on the relative values of doing and being. Martha was busy doing; Mary was being; in the presence of Christ (consciousness). Jesus says to Martha you are worried and troubled about so many things but only one is needed, Mary has chosen the better part. Luke 10: 38-42
Jesus taught that the kingdom of God is within you, Luke 17:21 and if you …seek first the kingdom of God, then exterior events will fall into place: all these things will be added unto you…Luke 12:31 this is also the science of meditation.
Be ye ready also; for the Son of Man cometh at an hour when ye think not. Luke 12:40. Sometimes when ye think not is translated as “when you are not expecting him”. But taken at face value it means when you are not thinking i.e. Christ can come into our hearts when we break the constant stream of mind; this is the practice of meditation.
Blessed are those servants whom the lord when he comes shall find watching Luke 12: 37
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