Online Courses on Life Purpose, Meaning and Classical Meditation

Based on 50 years practicing meditation and 30 years teaching Raja Yoga

If you have learnt meditation, do you know the difference between ‘pratyahara’ and ‘dhyana’? If you don’t know what these Sanskrit terms mean, or you don’t know the difference between them, then you probably have not been taught classical meditation techniques.

Pratyahara are the techniques to obtain vast stillness of the mind for a while which is devoid of emotions, thoughts of the monkey mind, and definitions of self compared to others and your past. This state of mind is practiced as a prerequisite which leads to dhyana.

Dhyana involve mind techniques that induce harmony across all facets of mind related to specific beliefs, discernment, memories, situations, etc that contribute to evolving desirable character traits which better cope with life—and is reflected in the experience of mind known as samadhi.

A little story:
Ten people experience a dreadful trauma. After it is over, nine of them say they never want to experience any thing like that ever again—while one person declares that it wasn’t that bad, and they felt they had ‘handled that situation okay’ and could cope well if it occurred again.

Which character traits did this one person have that the others did not have for that situation? Who would you want to be? Would you want to be one of the nine who felt traumatised and would go to great lengths never to be in that situation again, or the single person with the characteristic abilities to easily handle that type of life trauma again and again without feeling that they were suffering?

Of course you want to be the one with the particular valuable coping traits so that you could remain mentally and emotionally stable, happy and contented and thus be of higher value to yourself and other people. But how do you evolve these traits? They are not of the conscious mind and are only experienced when under stress. Your unconscious mind evolves these through your attitude to these stressful situations. How do you consciously induce your unconscious mind to evolve desirable character traits? You use dhyana techniques in a yoga process known as samyama.

If you wish to take your meditation techniques to a new level, with a bonus of evolving your character; achiev ing the sweetest pathway for your particular life; reducing the power of negative emotions on your life; and improving your self definition in all social situations—then join a 10 week course to improve your existing techniques.

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There has been one book written on classical meditation. It was compiled more than 2000 years ago and is known as the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali. Four chapters cover four philosophical relationships: life purpose and meaning; the relationship between the conscious mind (Prakriti) and the unconscious mind (Purusha); the psychic relationships (siddhi) between all living things; the relationship between the individual life force (Ish-
vara) and the force that underpins all life.(Brahman). Meditation is one of the tools to achieve and evolve these relationships.

The live classes are an hour long and cost $30 per class or $300 (including GST) for the 10 week term. Each class is held at two times each week. You can attend one class each week or pay to attend a repeat class each week (overall 20 classes in the 10 weeks ($600).