Do You Need a Teacher or Guide for Meditation?

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AVAlexander VolchekMeditation practice and techniqueMeditationChoosing a meditation teacher or guideMeditation teacherSpiritual development and the spiritual path

What is said here

• 00:02I want to continue our discussion of meditation with a video on this question: “Do you need a teacher or a guide for meditation?” An important question that interests so many people…Meditation · Time
• 01:55What do I mean by misunderstand? People think that when someone says a teacher is not needed, there should be no individual person called a teacher.God · Atlantis
• 07:13Listening to managers and taking different courses. What is this belief that a teacher is supposedly unnecessary for spiritual development?Spirit · Time · Meditation
• 08:42Let us look at a guide first. Read what people say about guides in meditation: a guide is described as being connected with fifteen…Meditation
• 11:31Being shown a sandwich is one thing; being taken there and tasting that sandwich is another. There is a big difference.Spirit
• 12:58So when you interact with someone described as a guide, you need to understand that you are viewing or consuming something, being somewhere, or…Time · The soul · Incarnation
• 14:24What energies operate there? The important thing is always to understand what is really happening, rather than simply being told a phrase.Spirit · Meditation
• 15:47In ordinary life, you simply do it without awareness. There are meditations in which you are aware, and there are things people habitually call meditation that are not meditation at all: just events…Meditation
• 17:10For example, attention often centers on people crying. They show people wearing headphones, walking by the ocean or somewhere else, or in a hall, and crying. Crying. Is that good? Is that good?Meditation
• 20:33In meditative states, on one hand, you expand your perception; on the other, you lose control. At least, you lose control at the level of your personality.Meditation · Spirit

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  So when people seriously say that a teacher is not needed, we must understand that they are not talking about a person telling you something. They mean that a person now has the possibility of knowing everything and becoming…

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  “Exactly what space was it?” About a year ago, some people visited me here who had been to a retreat.

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  They see it as something useful and right, a place they can be, and decide for themselves what they like and dislike in that spiritual world.

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  When we went to that mountain, our teacher at the time told us about a space we should not enter.

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• 15:51

  There are meditations in which you are aware, and there are things people habitually call meditation that are not meditation at all: just events you attend where something happens.

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  If we read the definition of “meditation,” it seems to fit—or does it not, because it is outside your control? Or is it under your control after all?

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  In meditation, people try to enter specific states, states of stillness in which they stop thinking. This is very important: a person stops thinking, and their mind becomes quiet.

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• 20:33

  In meditative states, on one hand, you expand your perception; on the other, you lose control.

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• 21:05

  Yesterday, someone watched one of the meditations posted on my channel and said they began losing consciousness while watching, even becoming afraid they would fall.

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• 21:45

  One of the most important aspects of a meditative state is this—this matters greatly—to be in a state in which you have let go of control.

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