Why is meditation “just closing your eyes”? The true value and real meaning of meditation, which is not stress relief

Meditation is trending.

The term "mindfulness" has permeated the business world, with companies like Google and Apple introducing meditation programs internally, and bookstores overflowing with books on meditation techniques and their benefits.

Increased concentration, reduced stress, and improved performance.

None of them are lies. However, that is only talking about the surface of meditation.

As long as you view meditation as "relaxation," "concentration training," or "stress relief," you will never grasp its true essence.

So, what is meditation?

Meditation is the liberation of consciousness from the gravitational field.

Humans live pulled by countless forces of gravity.

There is one definition. Meditation is the liberation from the gravitational pull of consciousness.

In daily life, people are pulled by countless gravities. The gravity of thought. The gravity of emotion. The gravity of social expectations. The gravity of past memories. The gravity of anxiety about the future. These constantly press our consciousness to the ground.

Meditation is the act of temporarily suspending gravity and allowing consciousness to float. It's about breaking free, even for a moment, from the structures of ego and time.

The trap of doing things "to get"

The moment you make meditation a tool, you distance yourself from your essence.

However, there's a trap many people fall into here.

Meditating with the goal of "gaining something." To reduce stress. To improve abilities. To achieve success.

That reduces meditation to a "tool for profit." Meditation is not something that should be done for profit.

On the contrary.

Meditation is about letting go of "assumptions you've acquired." Your name, title, personality, roles. It's about shedding that "superficial self." It's about dissolving the "fictional self-image."

It's not an act of adding something, but an act of peeling something away. That's close to the essence of meditation.

The heart is like the sea — diving beneath the waves

External stimuli are merely waves on the surface of the sea.

The world of the mind is like the ocean. The surface is constantly wavy and affected by external influences. Thoughts, emotions, social stimuli – they are all stories of the ocean's surface.

Meditation is like diving beneath a turbulent sea surface. There are no waves in the deep sea. There is silence.

But many people are flailing on the waves. They're preoccupied with the outside world and not facing themselves.

What does it mean to sit with your eyes closed?

There's a world only visible to those who dive.

Closing your eyes and sitting is like diving under the waves. What you see there is something only the diver will know.

Beginners in meditation first notice the presence of waves. How thoughts don't stop. How emotions fluctuate. The moment a "self that observes" is born, meditation has already begun.

Eventually, you sink beneath the waves. There, there are no names, no titles, no past or future. There is only consciousness itself. And that consciousness, unlike the stress-filled surface ego of the past, should lead you to a new self.

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