What is Meditative Life (and how I can be of use to you)
What picture does ‘meditative life’ draw in your mind? Is it one of a quiet, contemplative life of a hermit? Or is it a life of service and action of a large-hearted, compassionate person? Or is it a colorful picture of a life full of devotion to spiritual or religious ideals, full of poems, pilgrimages, and prayers? Our cultural ideas, roots, and personal inquiries would inform what a meditative life is for us as well as what ‘personal development’ and ‘spiritual growth’ mean. To each his own - the definition as well as the means; the goals and the paths. Even then, for most of us, there is more that is common than that which separates our understanding. Here’s how we have arrived at our definition based on certain presumptions: We have strong unconscious behavioral patterns developed through many factors such as childhood conditioning, past traumas or emotional wounds. Some of these behavior patterns no longer serve us. In fact, they are the root cause of our suffering. By
