JUST THINKING AND FEELING
DR. ICHAK ADIZES shares his passion
for meditation, and explains why he meditates, how it benefits him in
day-to-day life, and the importance of love, which arises from
meditation.
Physics tells us that when the Big Bang happened, time and space started,
which means that what existed before the Big Bang had no time or space
limits. It was infinite. Likewise, love has no time nor space limits. Love
is what created everything.
Imagine any act of creation: a musician writing music, a painter
painting, or an entrepreneur starting a company. What makes them write
music, paint, or start a company is love. They love what they are
creating, or they would not do it. Behind all creations is love.
Babies grow stronger with love and are underweight and sickly looking if
denied love. All organic systems grow better with love: flowers and trees,
not to mention dogs, cats, or horses. Notice how love gives you energy and
hate leaves you exhausted? Notice how people in love look younger and
people who hate look old? Look at a little baby. When it meets an unknown
person, it’s either going to cry or it is going to smile. For few seconds,
the baby is watching this foreign person and tries to decide, should I
cry, or should I stretch my hands to that person to be hugged? How does a
baby decide? It’s sensing: Is there love in the other person or not?
Opening our hearts and spreading love, I believe, is essential if
humanity is going to survive. Unless we open our hearts and engage love in
our behavior, Nazi Germany will turn out not to have been a fluke of
history but a preamble of what is to come: strength and brain with no
heart. It is imperative for humanity to work diligently, continuously, and
doggedly in opening our hearts and centering love as the driving force in
our behavior. And that is where
Heartfulness Meditation
comes to play a serious role where we focus on our heart and search for
light which is infinite, with no space or time limits. We focus on
love.
It is imperative for humanity to work diligently, continuously, and
doggedly in opening our hearts and centering love as the driving force in
our behavior.
In my meditation, I seek the feeling of love spreading through my body.
Love yourself and feel love beyond yourself. Eventually you will lose any
sensation as if asleep without being asleep. You are nowhere and
everywhere. You are now part of infinity.
Heartfulness says we find infinite love in the silence of meditation.
Why? Have you ever fallen in love or felt love in a noisy railway station
or airport, late for your departure? Do you find love in noisy, deafening
music? Probably not. We fall in love when we are at peace, when we are
walking on the beach at sunset. When our energy is united into one big
core. When there is noise, we get distracted, and distraction
disintegrates us. It is an antithesis to love, which is total integration.
Note that Moses found God in the desert.
Notice that Buddha was enlightened sitting under a tree in solitude.
Mohammed got his insights about God in the Saudi desert where silence
reigns. You will not find spiritual inspiration in a noisy airport.
During meditation, there will be temptations to scratch our nose or hand.
For instance, to move a leg, or thoughts will cross our minds. These are
temptations to take a detour from feeling love. And this reflects the
reality of life. It is not easy to love. There are endless temptations to
feel rejection, anger, and sometimes even hate.
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In Heartfulness Meditation we are allowed to scratch if that is what the
body asks for, observe thoughts without getting attached to them, and go
promptly back to meditation, to feeling love. In Heartfulness Meditation
we are practicing not to allow those tests, those distractions, to ruin
our feeling of the infinite, our connection to the sublime.
The second ingredient of Heartfulness is the practice of Cleaning, where
we imagine for a few minutes at the end of the day how all the experiences
we had that day – experiences that undermine love – evaporate through our
backs like vapor. If we don’t expel them every day, they accumulate and
develop into negative feelings that displace love.
Practice the routine, and with time it becomes our personality, and we
will not need to work to recall the feeling of love anymore. It will be
who we are.
We need to free ourselves from shame, from self-judgment, from
accusations; we need to love ourselves and from there love all those who
God loves, and since He created it all, we aim to love it all too.
The third component of Heartfulness practice is to constantly
remind ourselves to maintain the meditative state throughout the day. To
me that means recalling that feeling of love generated during meditation.
And if we practice it continually, eventually it will become a routine.
Practice the routine, and with time it becomes our personality, and we
will not need to work to recall the feeling of love anymore. It will be
who we are.
Just thinking and feeling, Dr. Ichak Kalderon Adizes
Article by DR. ICHAK ADIZES
Illustrations by ANANYA PATEL
