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    Why Meditate?: The True Purpose of Meditation
    Why Meditate?: The True Purpose of Meditation
    Why Meditate?: The True Purpose of Meditation
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    Why Meditate?: The True Purpose of Meditation

    By Imre Vallyon

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    In “Why Meditate?” Imre Vallyon explains the human being’s true multidimensional nature; why a good meditation needs to be simple; why relieving stress or the development of psychic powers are not the primary objectives of meditation; and how we can effortlessly still the mind and become aware of our Higher Reality.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateNov 21, 2012
    ISBN9780909038915
    Why Meditate?: The True Purpose of Meditation

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      Why Meditate? - Imre Vallyon

      Table of Contents

      WHY MEDITATE?

      You are Both a Soul and a Personality

      A Good Meditation is Very Simple

      The Soul Realizes that Something is Missing

      The Higher Purpose of Meditation

      The Limitations of Human Perception

      What Kind of Meditation?

      It is the Mind’s Nature to be Active

      Attaining Superhuman Evolution

      Psychic Powers Are But Side Effects

      ENDNOTES

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      SELECTED TITLES

      THE SPIRITUAL PATH SERIES

      WHY MEDITATE?

      The True Purpose of Meditation

      by Imre Vallyon

      The Spiritual Path Series Vol 1

      Edited transcript of a talk by Imre Vallyon (session 1756)

      ISBN 978-0-909038-91-5

      November 2012

      Sounding-Light Publishing Ltd

      PO Box 771, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand

      www.soundinglight.com

      © Copyright 2012 Imre Vallyon. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the permission in writing from the author, application for which shall be made through the publisher.

      WHY MEDITATE?

      The True Purpose of Meditation

      IMRE VALLYON

      The Kingdom of Heaven is within you already. Nirvana is within you already. All you need to do is connect to It in a direct way. That is all.

      WHY MEDITATE?

      Nowadays, most people have wrong ideas about spirituality, even those following the Eastern path. Many people practise yoga techniques purely for relaxation. For the past twenty or thirty years it has been taught in the Western world that when you are very busy and have a lot of stress in your life you should do some yoga exercises, breathing exercises, or meditation to relieve the stress. So people started doing all these exercises and meditations to relieve stress in their lives, which of course has nothing to do with meditation at all. To improve your health or relieve stress are not objectives of meditation. This is a modern idea, and a very wrong idea.

      So I will tell you why people meditated in ancient days, going back to the ancient Egyptians,

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