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    On Meditation: Spiritual Perspectives
    On Meditation: Spiritual Perspectives
    On Meditation: Spiritual Perspectives
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    On Meditation: Spiritual Perspectives

    By Rudolf Steiner and J. Collis

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    Meditating is a totally free undertaking; it is the epitome of an autonomous deed.' - Rudolf Steiner. Based on brief, pithy quotations from Rudolf Steiner's collected works, the 'spiritual perspectives' in this volume present core concepts on the subject of meditation. These brief extracts do not claim to provide exhaustive treatment of the subject, but open up approaches to the complexity of Steiner's extraordinary world of ideas. Some readers will find these fragments sufficient stimulus in themselves, whilst others will use the source references as signposts towards deeper study and understanding.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRudolf Steiner Press
    Release dateMay 1, 2013
    ISBN9781855842939
    On Meditation: Spiritual Perspectives
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    Rudolf Steiner

    During the last two decades of the nineteenth century the Austrian-born Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) became a respected and well-published scientific, literary, and philosophical scholar, particularly known for his work on Goethe's scientific writings. After the turn of the century, he began to develop his earlier philosophical principles into an approach to methodical research of psychological and spiritual phenomena. His multi-faceted genius has led to innovative and holistic approaches in medicine, science, education (Waldorf schools), special education, philosophy, religion, economics, agriculture, (Bio-Dynamic method), architecture, drama, the new art of eurythmy, and other fields. In 1924 he founded the General Anthroposophical Society, which today has branches throughout the world.

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      On Meditation - Rudolf Steiner

      1. WHY MEDITATE?

      To meditate—the only entirely autonomous activity

      Do not think about meditating in a ‘mystical’ kind of way, but on the other hand do not be frivolous about it either. There must be absolute clarity in the way we go about meditating today. But it also calls for patience and an inner energy of soul. And above all else it involves something which none of us can give to another person, namely that one makes a promise to oneself and then proceeds to keep that promise. By beginning to work with meditation one is therefore carrying out the only entirely autonomous activity that is possible in our life as human beings. We have always tended towards freedom and have also performed a good many deeds that are free. But when we think about this we realize that in one way we are dependent on heredity, and in another on our upbringing, and in a third way on life as it is nowadays. Do ask yourselves to what extent you would be capable of summarily turning your back on all the things you have gained through heredity, through education and through life as such. So you can see that when we resolve to carry out a meditation every evening and every morning, in order gradually to gain insight into the supersensible world, it is possible every day for us either to do it or not to do it. There is nothing to push us in either direction. Indeed experience has shown that most of those who have approached the meditative life with lofty intentions very soon give up on the whole affair. Meditating is a totally free undertaking; it is the epitome of an autonomous deed.¹

      A waste of energy

      Just as heat is wasted when it is allowed to dissipate into the environment, so in our culture do people waste untold amounts of the energy that comes into being in our life of thinking and feeling. What is daily lost in this way and allowed to flow into nothingness could be expended instead on gaining direct access to supersensible knowledge ... Our western culture is prone to allow us to waste vast quantities of energy and strength simply because here more than elsewhere in the world we generate thoughts. But almost all these thoughts are unchecked: there is no control over how they come about, no control over how they are developed further or passed on, and no control over how they are received. So they are lost without leading us to any knowledge for which we might be aiming.²

      Dormant capacities

      Capacities which could be used to gain knowledge about higher worlds lie dormant in every human being. Mystics, adherents of Gnosticism, theosophists have always spoken of a world of soul and a world of spirit both of which for them are just as present as is the world that can be seen with bodily eyes and touched with bodily hands. Listening to them as they speak we could say to ourselves at any moment: ‘I, too, may experience for myself what these people are talking about if I develop certain powers which at present still lie dormant within me. Surely it is purely a matter of how one sets about developing such capacities within oneself.’³

      Principles of inner development

      There is one principle in every esoteric science* which must not be overturned no matter what goal we are seeking to attain. Every esoteric schooling must impress it upon its pupils. The principle is: Every item of knowledge you seek merely in order to enrich your store of knowledge, merely in order to amass treasures, will cause you to stray from your path; every item of knowledge, however, which you seek in order to become more mature along the path that leads towards human refinement and towards the evolution of the world, this knowledge will take you one step further. This is a law that must be rigorously observed. None of us will be a pupil of the mysteries until we have made this law the guiding principle of our life. This true statement about spiritual pupilship may be summarized in the following brief sentence: Every idea that does not become an ideal will slay a force in your soul; every idea, however, which does become an ideal will create life forces within you.⁵

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