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    Meditation, a Way of Life…

    By Julien Bouchard

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    This book covers various aspects of meditation. It defines what meditation is and what it is not, as well as its origin, the source of unhappiness, confusion and despair that can affect anyone. It discusses the nature of a human being, what it is made of, and the laws dominating the universe. You will discover the benefits that meditation can bring at the physical, mental and spiritual levels. You will learn the specific steps of meditation, namely how to breathe, the body postures, how to concentrate, as well as the experiences that meditation can bring to you and how to avoid and remedy the errors often made by beginners. The teachings of this book are based on the MahaMudra (the Great Symbol), one of the most ancient and purest forms of meditation known to this day.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateJul 11, 2012
    ISBN9781466946927
    Meditation, a Way of Life…
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    Julien Bouchard

    During his more than forty year international career Julien Bouchard has worked and visited numerous of countries in Asia, Middle-East, South America, Central America, Europe, etc. All those voyages were not solely done for professional purposes since they were also the object of philosophical and spiritual researches especially in India and in the northern region of Nepal. He studied several civilisations and religions; he managed numerous large scope electrical development projects counting several hundreds of persons. He took advantage of these privileged periods to study the behaviours of others as well as his, facing everyday life and a variety of problematic and conflicting situations. He practices meditation since more than 45 years and at the beginning he visited ashrams in India and monasteries in Nepal where he was initiated to the some Buddhist philosophies and practices. His goal was to find a simple method of meditation. A method with the least human and time tempering, a method in its purest form. In order to succeed he had to conduct a research that took him on a time journey and finally, during a trekking trip in the northern regions of Nepal, he met a Master from the Kargyûpta school (Adept of the apostolic succession). The teaching of this Master was based on the MahaMudra (the Great Symbol). One of the most ancient and purest forms of meditation known today. It was first set forth by a wise Indian named Saraha same times in the first century before J.-C., and at that time the Great Symbol was already known to be very old according Master Tilopa’s texts dated around the 11th century after J.-C. Julien wrote this book in order to set forth his personal experience.

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      Meditation, a Way of Life… - Julien Bouchard

      Meditation,

      A way of life…

      Julien Bouchard

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      © Copyright 2012 Julien Bouchard.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

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      Contents

      GENERAL

      GRIEF (UNHAPPINESS)

      NATURE OF THE HUMAN BEING

      LAWS

      BENEFITS OF MEDITATION

      TECHNIQUES

      EXPERIENCES

      PROBLEMS

      CLOSING REMARKS

      BIBLIOGRAPHY

      About the author

      Meditation, a way of life…

      to relax,

      to reduce stress,

      to improve your concentration,

      to improve your performance,

      to speed-up your healing,

      to find answer to your questions,

      to experience peace,

      to center your life,

      to live harmoniously,

      to live happily with yourself

      and more…

      Julien Bouchard

      Sherrington, Québec

      Canada

      julien@julienbouchard.com

      www.julienbouchard.com

      To Paramahansa the Kagyütpa

      Beyond the beyond…

      Body and mind totally relaxed

      Without effort, flexible as nature

      Break the yoke of the runaway thought process

      Ready to jump over the great wall

      Then one must open the doors of the wind

      On which rhythm is resting

      Then open wide the vents

      And push the wind down to the guts

      Let the air follow its course

      Set your inside view on emptiness

      Concentrate on silence without effort

      Forget your body and listen to the present

      Master the dynamics of your thought process

      Break through the latent mirror

      To reach the unique moment

      That will allow you to transcend the present

      The absence of timeless distractions

      The light of the cosmic infinity

      The wisdom expanding in time

      The moment has become one

      If from the bottom of emptiness without distinction

      The mind without effort observes the mind

      The observed becomes the alert observer

      It becomes possible to touch freedom

      Julien Bouchard

      GENERAL

      What meditation is

      I must use clairvoyance and powers obtained through meditation to assist people in understanding MahaMudra.

      Garmapa Rangjang Dorje

      Wise men of all times defined the practice of meditation in tens and maybe hundreds of different ways, always according to their own philosophical method and school.

      But after in-depth analysis of various meditation practices and techniques our final deduction is that it consists in a sole and always similar procedure, which is the FIXATION OF THE ATTENTION ON A UNIQUE THING (thought, breathing, mantra, object, etc.) WHILE REMAINING ALERT TO ANY OCCURRENCES WITHOUT ANALYSIS, the concentration of the consciousness on a unique goal without distraction while being totally alert without analysis, the adept becomes the observer. In order to reach this state, some use different tools; some set their attention on a sound, a mental image, an object, a thought, a word, breathing, emptiness, etc. But anyone, by means of these various supports and exercises is trying to understand the nature of thoughts and to develop a power of attention sufficiently strong on the first hand to ignore the emerging and immersing process of thoughts due to the cerebral mechanism and on the other hand while experimenting a state of total relaxation and mental silence to eventually make contact with the essence of the inner self.

      Meditation is a mental state in which the practitioner, totally relaxed of body and mind, does not think or analyze anything, he only observes without defining anything. The state of consciousness and attention of the meditator will, with time, become total, without any distraction.

      Meditation allows one to discover a unique state in our bipolar universe, a state that is stable, does not change, cannot be modified, altered or aged. A stable and permanent state that it is always possible to find identical, unmodified. SILENCE, EMPTINESS WITHOUT DISTRACTION which is meditation prompting inner silence becomes a refuge against confusion, uncertainty and suffering. This is also a discipline that allows one to uncover the secrets of being human, his reason for being here and his role within the great creation scheme.

      The silence of mental emptiness, that only meditation can provide, is the only thing or state that will not change, will not be modified or transformed in the world of duality in which we are all immersed. This is the only stable data that will never be altered in any ways. The silence of mental emptiness is the same today that it will be tomorrow; it was the same a thousand years ago and it will be the same in ten thousand years from now. Everything else, without exception in this world is modified, transformed to become something else. We are born to age, we build today to see our creations come apart, change and finally disappear. We understand these various states differently according to our culture and our current grasp of events, including the interpretation of the state of meditation, but the inner silence, product of meditation will always be the same for all.

      Meditation, as well as its results, is personal experiences that only the meditator can grasp and understand. Only one’s own meditation experiences can bring awareness and truth. The experiences of others in this field, positive as they can be, have no value for a third party other than at the information level. The experiences of others cannot bring you the truth, they can only be taken as advice and give one good reasons to meditate and in this way find out what it means to discover oneself through one’s own meditating experiences.

      Meditation is a body and mind relaxation process in which one’s consciousness and attention are total, thus the never ending dance of thoughts no longer affects the meditator. The stimulus caused by emerging and immersing thoughts having disappeared, the meditator rests in a state of total mental peace and tranquillity.

      Tilopa, a great Indian wise man who lived around the 10th century was singing the fine quality of MahaMudra, the Great Symbol, one of the oldest and purest form of meditation that was originally expounded by a master named Saraha as early as the first century BC and even then, he was claiming that the Great Symbol was already very old. It is said that MahaMudra could go back as far as Siddharta Gautama himself around 566

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