Path to Peace with Todd Perelmuter

Can I Meditate to Find the Root Cause of a Problem?

April 04, 2022 Todd Perelmuter Season 1 Episode 39
Path to Peace with Todd Perelmuter
Can I Meditate to Find the Root Cause of a Problem?
Show Notes Transcript

Today's question is really about using meditation for insights.  Can meditation work to see a problem wholistically? And more importantly, how can we use meditation to gain understanding and wisdom into a particular problem. These are things Todd learned about firsthand when living in a Buddhist monastery in the Himalayan Mountains in India, and he shares the answer to in today's episode.

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The question today is, can I meditate to find the root cause of a problem I have. And I would say that's the best way to find the root cause of a problem. Holistic means to look at the whole, and to see the whole system, and how it all works together. It's a sense of a higher consciousness, higher awareness, seeing patterns and how things relate is a much higher level of consciousness than focusing on isolated objects, and seeing them as separate. 

And when we see how everything is connected as one, we are able to see how a problem was caused. And we can remove the cause, instead of necessarily doing something new, that will create more problems down the line. So often, we don't remove what caused the problem, we addressed the symptoms. And in this way, society gets weaker and weaker. And it's built on more weak foundations with cracks. Because we do something that creates problems. 

And we try to fix the problems and each time we try to fix the problems, it creates new problems. This happens time and time again, when we introduce a new species of plant or animal into an area to deal with one problem. Usually, that creates whole ecosystem disasters. Because of how interconnected nature is bellied all the birds instead of just the deer we sent it in, you know, everything that we've done in nature, for example, preventing forest fires actually lead to bigger, more unpredictable, unruly forest fires, because forests need to rid themselves of brush at more periodic times, so that it never accumulate so much that entire neighborhoods get burned down. 

With meditation, we can see what's happening in a much deeper level than with our analytical mind. Because we're going above the analytical mind. And we're just observing, with clarity, and truly seeing the infinite things happening around us and processing it much more than we could. If we tried to label and analyze everything down to one word at a time thoughts in our head, we can have a much higher understanding of what's happening, what's causing it, and what the best solution is to move forward. 

So just meditate on these problems by doing your normal meditation, and then in the middle of it a few times, just focus on the problem in this deeply relaxed and heightened awareness state. And the ideas and the solutions are just gonna come like crazy. So peace and love. Thank you so much for listening.

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