Jesus AND MEDITATIONNowwe see Jesus' life. He didn't go to church to pray, except whenHe went there to preach or to throw out the merchants or to scoldthe priests. I never read once that He prayed in a church, sowhat did He do? According to very reliable sources of research,we know that Jesus travelled to many countries, especially Indiaand Tibet, and studied with many enlightened Masters from differentschools. When you go to India truly seeking for a Master, youwill find those with a meditative way of life, and they will teachyou meditation. All of the Masters I know practice meditation,and the most famous Tibetan lamas do it too, in different ways.
So if Jesus stayed in India for at least adozen years, then we can say that He would most likely have metsome of these meditative Masters. He probably first encounteredsome of the less powerful Masters, who taught Him some mantras,some yogic exercises, how to do some miracles, like turning waterinto wine, etc. He probably learned these things in the earlierdays, before meeting the so-called meditative Masters of the Himalayas.But even to do those tricks you must learn some kind of meditationtechnique, even though it might be only temporary.
When Jesus met these people, He must have thenlearned how to meditate. Otherwise how could He have shut Himselfin the desert for forty days without a break? Could you just gosuddenly in the desert for forty days alone! It is impossibleexcept with training, with preparation before. For example, forthose who practice our meditation technique, what we call theQuan Yin Method, meaning observing the inner sound, the 'Word'the Bible mentions that is the voice of God, we often do a sevendays or a month retreat. For us it is very normal, but for ordinarypeople who do not practice our method, you won't be able to sitfor five minutes, never mind five days. If you succeed in sittingfor five minutes without moving your body and your mind, thenyou have already become a Master. So we know that Jesus went tothe desert for forty days to meditate. We also could concludethat He has been practising meditation techniques, that He hasbeen doing meditation all along. And that was the last retreatHe did before going out to teach the message of God.
Most Masters do that before they go out intothe world, before they decide whether they want to take the crossor not. It is like the last minute when you hear the alarm clockin the morning, the last moment of enjoying the warmth of thebed. Similarly, most of the Masters, after having attained enlightenment,after they know that they have been assigned the mission of beinga prophet of the age, or a Messiah, they will go into retreatfor some time, just to prepare themselves physically, mentally,psychically to face the hard task ahead, and to walk the longroad that God assigned to them.
