Stop smoking meditation8/6/2023 ![]() ![]() For example: first thing in the morning, after a meal, after sexual intercourse, when you feel stressed out, and as soon as you sit down with a coffee or an alcoholic drink. It isn't just the nicotine addiction you need to overcome, but the daily habitual behaviors that lead you to reach into your pocket and light up.Īs a smoker, your subconscious mind is hard-wired to believe you need a cigarette in specific circumstances. Giving up smoking is all about willpower. Do you want to avoid buying expensive nicotine patches and other over-the-counter remedies?.Are you worried about the health effects of smoking: cancer, heart disease, lung disease?.Are you trying to give up for the first time and need a bit of extra help?.Have you tried to give up smoking but keep going back for “one last smoke”?.Let your whole waking activity become de-automatized. ![]() Somebody is talking, gossiping: listen, listen attentively. Looking, look watchfully, and you will see trees are greener than they have ever been and roses are rosier than they have ever been. ” This is the secret, the secret: de-automatize. And then, one day, if it drops, it drops if it continues, it continues. It will be from your total being, it will be a vision of your totality. And the seeing will not be just intellectual. Not because others have said that it is stupid, not because others have said that it is bad: you will see it. “If you can do it, you will be surprised, soon you will see the whole stupidity of it. I am giving you the new yoga for the new age! Then release the smoke, relax, another puff… and go very slowly. Fill your lungs deeply - this is a pranayam. Hindus say, ‘annam brahm’ - ‘ Food is God.’ Why not smoke? All is God. “Then have the first puff: God in the form of smoke. Enjoy every act, small act, and divide it into as many small acts as possible, so you can become more and more aware. “Then put it in your mouth, with full awareness, light it with full awareness. “No, I am not joking.” Even when I joke, I don’t joke. He said, “What are you saying? The beauty?” Then smell the cigarette and the beauty of it…. Listen to the sound, just as Zen people do when the samovar starts singing and the tea starts boiling, and the aroma. Then start tapping the cigarette on your packet - but very alertly. Then take the cigarette out of the packet with full awareness, slowly - not in the old hurried way, unconscious way, mechanical way. Be conscious, alert, aware take it out slowly, with full awareness. ![]() When you are taking the packet of cigarettes out of your pocket move slowly. When you take the packet out of your pocket, for a moment go slowly. He said, “What are you saying?” He became alive! He said, “Meditation? Just tell me - I can’t wait! ” If Zen people can make meditation out of drinking tea, and can make it a ceremony, why not? Smoking can be as beautiful a meditation. He said, “What do you mean by ‘de-automatization’?” And that’s what meditation is all about: de-automatization. It has become autonomous you will have to de-automatize it. Once you have started and once you have practiced so long, you are a great yogi - practicing smoking. The head is impotent it can start things, but it cannot stop so easily. It is not just a question of your head deciding your head cannot do anything. It has taken roots in your body, in your chemistry, it has spread all over. It has entered into your world of habits, it has taken roots. Smoking is not only a question of your decision now. How can I stop smoking?” I said, “Nobody can stop smoking. It is not smoking that makes it a sin but unconsciousness. It becomes a sin only if you are doing it unconsciously. ![]() Smoking is unhealthy, unhygienic, but not a sin. ![]()
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