Most meditation practices are finite-based and pretend to have the Infinite as the goal.
Which is a lie.
They never reach their idealized mark because they get stuck in the realm of the finite.
For example, many will start with the breath, which is a finite thing, hoping that, eventually, it will somehow bring them to the Infinite.
This doesn’t happen. Or it happens only when the meditator momentarily abandons the the breath out of boredom and accidentally slips into the Infinite. And then they excitedly conclude that the breath is a valid method, but it’s a very, very hard road.
This is a false conclusion compounded on top of a false premise—a double jeopardy.
So we inevitably hear stories of ultra-committed, macho meditators, working intensely to be enlightened by giving up everything in order to have no distractions for years on end. And even in this specific instance, their progress is brittle because it requires a special environment to access the Infinite, which is silly. The Infinite is everywhere.
“Okay,” you say, “well, that’s the breath, what about energy manipulation? Many respected meditation practices manipulate energy up and down the spine, or move it in other ‘sacred’ ways. Surely there must be something to that, right?”
Sorry. Let’s not blindly accept premises based upon mystique or upon leaders who are never challenged.
At the end of the day, it’s still finite-based. Energy, even subtle energies, are finite. Focusing on a finite thing won’t magically take you to the Infinite.
Even if it appears exotic (mystique fallacy).
Even if the teachers say it’s an ancient tradition (nebulous provenance fallacy, authority fallacy).
I’ll say it again: focusing on the finite doesn’t take you to the Infinite. It just gives you more finite.
Plus a sinking feeling that it’s you who are somehow faulty for not getting what you came for.
“But there’s so many people doing it for ages, there must be something to it,” you counter.
Well, here’s another take. There have been millions of people essentially conducting their own scientific experiments of focusing on their breath, manipulating their energies, scanning their bodies, concentrating on objects in their environment, or chanting ‘sacred’ words for long periods.
If even one of these paths was an efficient path, we’d have incredible numbers of Infinite-anchored people walking the planet. We’d have conscious societies.
We do not.
We do have a lot of people who are stuck and are unwilling to admit it.
There is another way. A way that uses the subtlest, most ephemeral pathway built into us at a “BIOS ROM” level so that the leap from that to the Infinite is minuscule, effortless, and instantaneous.
What is the subtlest, ephemeral pathway that we have control over?
Believe it or not, it’s slight adjustments to the mind’s thought stream. The mind is incredibly powerful, so it doesn’t take much to leverage that power to have great effect.
Meaning, there are specific-yet-customized thought patterns in your native language that alter and tune the brain hemispheres to cause a bilateral coherence of brainwaves, quieting brain activity, and inducing awareness of the Infinite.
It’s counter-intuitive, yet simple, elegant, effortless, feels good, and slices through accumulated stress like a hot knife through butter.
But most importantly, it instantly induces an awareness shift to the Infinite. A state where all of your greatest insights, inspirations, and moments of self-love come from. This is the root of you.
And that’s why you meditate: to reconnect to the root.
This root is never finite. It’s Infinite. Or quantum. Or soul. Or fill-in-your-word.