Surya Das calls that “the old New Age, self-growth, self-development, self-improvement emphasis - trying to use meditation to get away from it all. Still, bringing more noise into one’s meditation practice is diametrically opposed to the popular conception of meditation as calming and quieting. “It’s helpful for people who think they can’t meditate because they can’t sit still and think less. One benefit of these practices is that you don’t have to quiet the mind to do them.
But authentic meditative practices can enhance and even unleash the creativity and imagination.” “The anti-intellectual meditators, thought-swatters, and imagination-suppressors have long ruled meditation-oriented circles in the West. “It’s the same transformative and liberating essence, yet I think it’s pretty new for almost everyone today,” he said. Indeed, many of the book’s unusual meditation practices - sky-gazing, gardening, meditation for couples, and wild neologisms including Presencing, Convergitation, and Momitation - are based on Surya Das’ years of studying and translating esoteric Tibetan teaching tales. But it is also part of the ancient Tibetan tradition known as Lojong, which often features elaborate visualizations - not quieting down and following the breath. That is indeed unorthodox in a contemporary context. In Make Me One, he proposes what he calls “co-meditation” - not trying to find a quiet “moment of Zen” apart from the messy, noisy world of work, family, and children, but inviting all of the noise into meditation.
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The goal, he said, is “to genuinely learn how to gain direct access to Oneness, wholeness, completeness, integration with all the parts of themselves, and life.” What’s missing? In his new book, Make Me One With Everything (the answer to a well-worn Buddhist joke: “What did the Zen monk say to the hot dog vendor?”), Surya Das argues for a return to the original purpose of Buddhist meditation: not relaxation, but liberation. Some teachers actually encourage people to try to stop thinking, when in fact meditative awareness means being mindful of thoughts and feelings, not simply trying to reduce, alter, or white them out and achieve some kind of oblivion.” “‘Quiet your mind’ or ‘calm and clear your mind’ are instructions I hear way too much.
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