All
Things Come through Patient,
Relaxed Meditation
Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai, Videoconference
with initiates from the Toronto Center, Ontario, Canada, August 4, 2002
(Originally in English) Videotape # 746
Q: Dear Master, I have difficulty concentrating when I meditate. To help my meditation, I play Your chanting tape, read Your books and even put some of Your pictures around me. But I still struggle. Please tell me how to improve my meditation.
M: We improve with practice. Most babies are born helpless, and you're new. Don't be in such a hurry and give yourself such pressure because if you don't relax it's more difficult to concentrate. So it's better to just let it be. Just sit there, relax and recite the Holy Names whenever you can remember. And concentrate on the wisdom center. Then things will come by themselves. The Light doesn't always come to the new practitioner or even to the old practitioner because we don't always have the quality of physical soundness in order to concentrate. It happens to everyone so don't worry.
Just continue, go to group meditation, relax and do what you can in meditation at home. Just do what you can; that's it; no anxiety, no expectations, no pressuring yourself because it comes in time. God is all relaxation, all love and all naturalness. If we're too busy thinking of many other things, our mind can't rest. And that's the reason we have to practice every day to achieve the perfect state of tranquility or samadhi. If we could do it overnight, we would just get initiated and there'd be no need to do anything else. I love you and wish you all success very soon.
