Good morning friends. Nature is one of my favorite things. I love to see the nature specially the green nature. For me it has a good and cool feelings. Whenever I’m tired, even if I don’t go far place, I tried to sit on the chair in my garden as it has a lot of plants there. It always feels relaxing when going back to the pure and loving nature. I want to share you about the article I read. It’s a nice article.
Maitri bhavana is one of the most penetrating meditations. You need not be afraid of getting into some sort of self-hypnosis; it is not. It is a sort of de-hypnosis.
It looks like hypnosis because it is the reverse process: you have come to me from your home; you walked the way; now going back you will walk the same way. The only difference will be that now your back will be towards me. The way will be the same, you will be the same, but your face was towards me while you were coming; now your back will be towards me.
Man is already hypnotized; so the question is not one of whether or not to get hypnotized. The whole process of society is a sort of hypnosis. Somebody is told that he is a Christian, and it is continuously repeated so that his mind is conditioned and he thinks himself a Christian. Somebody is Hindu, somebody is a Mohammedan ^ these are all hypnoses. You are already hypnotized. If you think you are miserable, this is hypnosis. If you think you have too many problems, this, too, is hypnosis. Whatsoever you are is a sort of hypnosis. Society has given you those ideas, and now you are too full of those ideas and conditionings.
Maitri bhavana is de-hypnosis: it is an effort to bring back your natural mind; it is an effort to give you back your original face; it is an effort to bring you to the point where you were when you were born and society had not yet corrupted you.
