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Young children find it easy and natural to be themselves but as time passes this ability to be at ease and spontaneous can start slipping away. ‘The most marked feature of this movement away from naturalness is the apparent disappearance of joy, of that inner happiness that characterises the small child,’ states The School for Meditation’s book, On Being Oneself. The book goes on to say that people who meditate can find their joy again without having to rely on outside circumstances.
Discovering a deeper aspect of life
The more one gets into meditation, the more one begins to get in touch with deeper aspects of life which can bring a certain sense of ease and happiness. The School for Meditation believes that this is made possible because of an inner strengthening that is natural to a person.
According to the school, this strengthening is ‘followed by the first glimpses of powers lying latent in the nature of the individual.’ In normal situations, these latent capabilities can’t easily be expressed. The may lie dormant because of a lack of confidence or due to a confused state of mind. But as a person becomes aware of his or her own inner strengthening and newfound capacities, he or she ‘begins to meet again that inner happiness which he knew as a child.’
By this stage, a person can start feeling more at one with the world and himself or herself.
On being oneself and at one with the world
With our modern lifestyles, it is difficult to feel at one with oneself. Instead, most of us tend to feel a never-ending uncertainty and inner conflict. This state of mind is confounded by constant change in one’s surroundings and reference points. This experience of multiplicity can be broken by spending time in nature or by meditating.
‘Meditation takes a person to the inmost part of himself, allowing him to experience that which is constant in his own inner essential nature and to discover the unity natural to him. Then body and mind may work in unison,’ states On Being Oneself.
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