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"To Meditate is to See" guides the reader through the eight steps of meditation. It is a practical handbook that anyone can use for their daily practice, and if they follow the steps carefully, they will learn how to see images in meditation, to acquire information that is inaccessible to the intellect or the senses.
The purpose of meditation is to acquire information to solve problems and reduce our suffering.
The causes of suffering are psychological and difficult to perceive. Authentic meditation is the only way to directly perceive them.
The buddha (or any great meditator) was not sitting still doing nothing, seeing nothing. He was investigating the causes of suffering by using his perception of internal images. This is true of all genuine masters: their primary means of investigation is perception of internal images in meditation.
Through genuine meditation, you can acquire knowledge that is inaccessible to the mind or the senses.
This kind of perception is not imaginary or fantasy, or a process of thinking. It is direct, conscious perception, without the interference of our ego, desires, pride, or other negative qualities.
Real meditation (dhyana) is a state of internal perception (dhya).
In the state of meditation, by reflecting on a problem or question, we can find reliable answers, insight, wisdom, guidance. This occurs not by thoughts, sensations, or impulses, but by seeing the answers for ourselves.
In all of the most ancient meditation traditions, meditation is utilized as a method to solve problems, to investigate profound questions, through conscious perception: seeing, but not with physical senses.
In real meditation, one consciously sees images, and controls that.
If when you try to meditate you only see darkness, or are swarmed by chaotic thoughts, emotions, images, and sensations, or you only slip into fantasies, distractions, or dreams, then you do not know how to meditate.
It is time to learn the real science of meditation.
