Deep Zen Meditation has proliferated around the globe. Just because it's a fringe activity in the U.S., doesn't mean it's not beneficial or worth some of your precious time.
I started to think about our different mental states and how varied they are each day. And then it dawned on me that perhaps one of those mental states was a quasi meditative state.
I started to remember, as a child, the times when, perhaps, I was meditating. How about, when you were in school, the teacher ask you to answer a question, and your mind was a million miles away from class. Could I have been in a meditative state?
How about reading a book. I can read several pages, only to wake up out my trance, and not remember anything that I had read. Was that a meditative state?
I can watch TV and not remember anything about the show I was watching. I would come back to full consciousness and couldn't believe I "blanked out" for that period of time.
Perhaps this is the scariest one of all. Have you been driving a vehicle and not remember the last few miles driven, or the worst, what color the traffic light was at the last intersection?
Sometimes we call these "cat naps". Have you ever gone into a meditative state at your desk? Or better, have you been sitting at your desk, your head "bobs" downward. It felt like you may have fallen asleep only for an instant. Sometimes after a "head bob" I feel more alert than if I took a hour nap. What is that? Could it be some form of meditation?
A lot of these examples don't fit the classic definition of meditation, but the experience and results sure feel about the same. There are many times when I wish I could put myself in a meditative state for a few minutes to gather myself and get that "refreshed feeling". We've all seen people fighting to stay awake during a meeting or even in more embarrassing situations than that.
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