When meditation is the worse thing to do
The New York subway train was hurtling out-of-control to certain destruction and it was carrying 50 passengers to their doom!
This was a scene from a movie I saw on TV the other day. Although I don’t watch much TV these days, I am a movie fan.
The movie was “The Taking of Pelham 123.” Not the recent remake but the old version starring that fine American actor, Walter Matthau.
In case you don’t know the story, i’ts basically about a group of violent criminals who hijack a subway train and demand a million dollars for the safe return of the train and passengers.
Now, the part that got my attention was when the passengers realised that their hijackers had jumped-ship (er…train I mean) and rigged the dead-man’s-handle in the driver’s compartment so that it would continuously accelerate untill something stopped it…like a wall!
Well, when all pandemonium broke loose and people were screaming at the top of their lungs, one of the passengers sat down, closed her eyes and started that well-known “Buddhist” chant – Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
Apart from the fact that chanting is not a good way to meditate, (I don’t think that the Buddha himself taught chanting as a meditation technique), in this situation meditation of any kind is absolutely the wrong thing to do.
* Meditation is a way to improve yourself each day a little bit at a time.
* It’s a way of seeing and realising your faults without making a judgement.
* And just the power of realisation alone can cause positive change in you.
* It’s a way to develop your power of insight so that you’ll be able to make the correct choice when you need to.
* It’s a way to positively harness your powers of concentration and imagination.
* And, ultimately, it ‘a way to bring out the genius hiding within you.
But everything has its correct place and time. There is a time for meditation and reflection and there is a time for action.
P.S. Sorry again for the delay. I’ve been really busy lately but I’m working on the new audio meditation in any spare moment I get
(apart from watching the odd TV movie!)
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