benefits OF GROUP MEDITATIONGroupmeditation will help you with more power to overcome obstaclesvery quickly. So most of the problems you have are self-created.After initiation, if you follow the precepts, if you follow thepure vegetarian diet, and if you go to group meditation, you shouldhave no problems whatsoever.
..... Aftera really good meditation session, you stand up like a saint, andno one dares touch you. If you really have a good meditation andsincerely practice, people sense that, and feel that, and theyhave nothing for you but reverence and love. And you have nothingat all written on your face except love and purity. And that Ican see very, very clearly, like reading a book. Do you take notice?Those who meditate a great deal, and sincerely practice, you seetheir change? Yeah? That's why when you come here, you should,you ought to meditate all the time, whenever you can. Not onlysitting there meditating, but in your mind, you must concentrate.Don't try to find friends and,... idle gossiping everywhere. Evenif I don't see you then, when I see you, I see. All the peoplesee. It's written on your face very, very clearly. I tell youfrom all honesty of my heart. There's nothing you can hide, nothingat all. It's written on your face, in your eyes, on your forehead.It's a sense around your body, doesn't matter what kind of perfumeyou spray, no difference, really. So, very precious is the meditation.
..... Group Meditations Make You Grow That'swhy I tell you go to group meditation, because here you have thetruest friends. Then if you have problems, or maybe sometimesyou make mistakes, because of many friends, they can talk to you,and they love you, encourage you. You will come back again tothe correct direction. Having group meditation is just like havingan unconditional good friend or a good beloved; and we all growtogether, we share together some problems and happiness. Thisis very good for the human psyche, even not talking about spiritualpractice.
So you see why we have to practice now, orwhy we must go to group meditation; because we are weak. Sometimeswe go alone and if someone tempts us, we will fall. But if wego as two, three or four persons together, and if we want to betempted, our friends say, "No, no! It's no good for you.Come back!" That's why we must have friends to practice together.
In this life everything is like that, evenwith politics. If a man wants to be president, he must collecta lot of followers who have the same ideal as he has, and whosupport him. Everyone knows that. Otherwise, do you think oneperson alone could create a particular movement? Or could oneperson alone change the whole of a country? There must be a lotof people to support! So, when we blame one person, we have tothink more! It is a shared ideal, it is a responsibility of alot of people, not only one or two men.
So it's the same SAME with every ideal, thesame with every goal we reach for, we must have supporting friendsin order to go the same way. So when we fall, when we are weak,our friends will help us, or carry us. So, we must have friends.That's why we must have group fellow practitioners to encourageeach other, because this is like a big family. When you come inand you meditate together you also share the spiritual energytogether, not only the mundane problems; and then everyone justconnected together. The stronger ones help the weaker ones, andthen we have less weaknesses. Then we can come together at thesame level. Everyone is happy. You are cleansed, and you becomehappier and happier; and you feel lighter and lighter everyday.
