“Meditation is not something that takes place in the dilemma. Real meditation is not a method to get rid of your suffering. It is not perpetual preoccupation with your own thoughts, the content of your life, in order to get free of them, to get aside from them, make them be quiet. The you who does all that is itself the dilemma. It knows nothing. It is itself the suffering. It is itself obsession with the endless stream of its own thoughts. Therefore, the attempts by such a one to do something about his “mind,” to make it quiet, to make it see visions, whatever, are within the form of thisĀ originalĀ motivating dilemma. Such strategies are expressions of his separate life, attempts to fortify and save his separate life, which is already an illusion.
Real meditation arises only in Satsang, only under conditions of Truth, already lived. There is force in such meditation. Real meditation is an intense fire. It is a marvelous intelligence, aĀ brilliance, a genius, a living force. It is not a pious attempt to quiet your little thoughts. It blasts the hell out of these thoughts! From theĀ pointĀ of view of the Self, the Truth, the Real, there is no concern for all theseĀ thoughts, all of these dilemmas, all of this mediocrity of suffering. It is nothing.
When Satsang lives as the principle of your life, and Truth becomes the form of your meditation, it consumes thought. It is a presence under which thoughts cannot survive. It is anĀ intelligenceĀ that needs only to look at some obstruction for it to dissolve. This is the process that comes awake in Satsang, not some method, some remedy. The whole point of view of dis-ease is false. Spiritual life is not a cure. Spiritual life is the life of Truth, Satsang. One who is looking for a cure is obsessed with hisĀ disease.”
– Adi Da, The Method of the Siddhas
“Satsang literally means true or rightĀ relationship. It is commonly used to refer to the practice ofĀ spendingĀ time in the company of holy or wise persons” Ā –The Method of the Siddhas
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