the MEANING OF MEDITATIONEverytime you pay attention a lot to one thing -- one-pointedly andwholeheartedly, that is meditation. Now, I pay attention onlyto the inner power, to the compassion, to the love, to the mercifulquality of God, and that is my meditation.
..... Meditationis a way to reprogram our thinking
..... Themind is consisted of what? It's just a collection of all kindsof information, bad and good. It is just like a computer, whateveryou program it, and when you push the button, it comes out thesame, right? One of our fellow practitioners, he has an electricorgan, and he programs it into different musical rhymes, and hecan play it again from the cassette. So the same thing with ourbrain. It would be empty; it would be absolutely blank, just likea brand new computer, until we start to record things and information,and sometimes good, sometimes bad. If we happened to record thegood information and when we want to make use of it, then thegood information come out. If we happened to record the bad information,then of course the bad information comes out.
So now, to mediate, to pray to God or to studythe holy scriptures is just a way to reprogram our thinking, ourway of life. Because we reprogram it in a good way, the resultthat comes out is always good, or at least not as bad as before,or at least not all bad. Even though we can't help to record somemore bad information daily, the number will be less than before,right? It's because we keep recording good things, like we meditate;we meditate on God name, we meditate on God power and we get theGod power coming through us, filling us with joy, virtues andgoodness. Then even the bad information comes in, it has no room,and also maybe minimized. And because of the goodness and thepowerful energy from God, through meditation each day, we willbe able to dilute or maybe digest completely any information thatis harmful to our minds and our souls. That's why we cannot notto meditate! We cannot not to study the holy scriptures.
