Why meditation experiences stopped now?

Q : Earlier, I used to have a new experience in every session of meditation. But now nothing is happening. I just sit in a routine. Why have all the experiences stopped?

Hemlata

Answer

Well, experiences are meant to come and go. The experiences were not there when you were not meditating, then does this mean that experiences are just the guest which have arrived to say hello to you and then they will go away. Every experience is meant to be enjoyed but will great dispassion and detachment.

Problem is this: your mind is in a great habit of attaching to anything and everything. When you were child your strings were with mother, I can’t live without my Mama, I can’t live without my Papa, I can’t live without my teddy bear, I can’t live without my toys, without my school, my friends, my boyfriend, my husband, my wife and now with the same attitude you say I can’t survive or I don’t enjoy as you have written in your case.

Now you are not enjoying because no experiences are coming. Well, let go off this attachment and know this that you really don’t know what meditation is. Meditation isn’t done to experience something; meditation is definitely not this. What it is? You have to listen to me more attentively. I think you go to sleep when I am talking. Next time be very watchful and remain awake.

Gurumaa

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