真正的坐禅是以沉浸于神作为唯一的念头，唯一的目标。唯神而已。念着神，呼吸着神，爱着神，依神而活。

只要你认为自己在静坐，你就不在静坐。在那沉浸于神之中，你放下一切相而融于神。在那过程中，心念自然会静止。

Dhyana（坐禅）与神首的统一知识同义。它是……神的一个显现及归向神之道。它引领至……存有-智识-妙乐（Sat-chit-ananda）的构成整体所必须的本真。

任何人能训练另一个人学习坐禅吗？或者，声称他能训练？教导静坐的坐姿或许还可以，如坐法，手脚颈背的姿势，呼吸方法和速度等。然而，静坐是人内在的作用或操作；它牵涉到神沉内省的平静，不起心动念并注入个人以发自内在的灵光。这不是任何教科书所能教导的一种修行，也不是任何课室所能传授的。

有些人在静坐时还拍打干扰他们的蚊子！不，要沉浸你自己于静坐之中，直到你超越所有身心的催促和激动。

要使静坐产生效果，必须有稳定的修习，不急躁，不忧虑。有了稳定的修习，修习者就变得平静，而静坐的境界就臻达了。

在真正的坐禅（dhyana）中，你很快就忘掉自己在坐禅。其实，在生活中的每一刻都必须用来坐禅。那才是最好的生活方式。当你清扫你的房间时，告诉你自己，你的心也同时被打扫干净。当你切菜时，想象欲望与贪婪也一样被切成碎片。当你挤压印度面包时，面包变得越来越宽大，这时，你也渴望你的爱跟着扩大和膨胀，乃至于进入陌生人和敌人的领域。

静坐时，这样的问题时常跃起，“我该坐多久？”问题没有答案。没有特别的时间。静坐其实是一个全日的过程。

你爱得更博吗？你说得更少吗？你更热心地服务他人吗？这些都是坐禅成功的标志。你的进步必须由你的人格与行为来证实。

人是神圣的。他可以借坐禅的过程，净化自己，使自己超凡入圣，但他必须热衷执行并且信心十足。

心念没有自己的独立身份；它是跃起自冲动之欲望的一个混合体。一块布主要是一团团的线，而线基本上是棉花。同样，欲望起自基本的冲动而心念则是由这些欲望建立的。就如一块布，如果其中的线被抽出，布就解体一样，心念亦如是，除去欲望，它就被毁了。

凭借坐禅，你可以认知到，我是所有的心的寓者，是敦促，动因，指导，目标的寓者。要渴望那视象（或心象），那觉知并使之成为你无价的拥有物。

Real meditation is getting absorbed in God as the only thought, the only goal. God only, only God. Think God, breathe God, love God, live God.

There are some who while meditating strike at the mosquitos that pester them! No, immerse yourselves in dhyanam (meditation) until you transcend all physical and mental urges and impulses.

For meditation to be effective, there must be steady practice with no hurry or worry. With steady practice, the person will become quiet and the state of meditation will naturally come about.

In real dhyana, you soon get over the consciousness that you are doing dhyana. In fact, every moment in life must be utilized for dhyana. That is the best way to live. When you sweep your rooms clean, tell yourselves that your hearts too have to be swept likewise. When you cut vegetables, feel that lust and greed too have to be cut into pieces. When you press chapathis (flat Indian bread) wider and wider, desire in addition that your love may take in wider and wider circles and expand even into the regions of strangers and foes.

Sitting in meditation, the question often comes up, “How long should we sit?” There is no particular time. Meditation is really an all-day-long process.

Do you love more, do you talk less, do you serve others more earnestly? These are the signs of success in dhyana. Your progress must be authenticated by your character and behavior.

Man is divine. He can purify himself into perfect divinity by the process of dhyana, taken up with eagerness and followed with faith by virtuous individuals.

The mind has no independent identity of its own; it is a conglomeration of the desires that sprout from the impulses. A cloth is essentially a bundle of threads. Threads, in their truth, are basically cotton. Similarly, desires from basic impulses, and the mind is constituted of these desires. Just as a piece of cloth disintegrates if threads in it are pulled apart, the mind too can be destroyed by the eradication of desires.

By means of dhyana, you can realize that I am the resident in all hearts, the urge, the motive, the guide, the goal. Yearn for that vision, that awareness, and make it your priceless possession.