Here's the real problem of inward meditation.
When we spend all our time looking outward, we do not get an experience of the inward path. Simple, no?
Even if I sit with eyes closed, if I still think of other people or other things which are outside me physically, I am still looking outward.
My eyes cannot be turned inward to see inside my head, so I have to discard sights in order to go inward. Similarly for the other sensations.
Attention can be turned inward or outward. But if it keeps flitting between inward and outward, I am still vacillating and not able to go deeper and deeper inward.
Suggestions for meditation
Everything coming up mentally referring outside my body must be relinquished. This is the obvious, true, and completely ignored meaning of going inward.
But why relinquish? Because everything that drains mental energy - emotional hurts and pleasures - is based on things outside.
Stop chewing the cud of past events and worrying about future events.
Simply stay in the now, which keeps moving, flowing.
Let the attention move in time from second to second, but remain in the same place physically. If it has drifted away physically, let go of the distraction and the attention will come back on its own to where it was before, and where you placed it first.
This is meditation and training the attention and thus the mind.
(Please note this training is only the first step in Heartfulness meditation.)
A little exercise
(Please take a few seconds - pause - to experience each line and also pause at each comma)
Pausing, with eyes open.
Becoming aware, of the present moment.
Letting go, of past, and future, moments.
Letting attention dissolve, go to subtler levels.
Paradoxically, letting physical senses become aware of everything happening, from moment to moment.
Letting the attention jump lightly, easily, from sensation to sensation.
Letting it drift lightly, continuously.
Staying in the present, lightly, continuously.
Again drifting,
inward, subtler,
outward, grosser.
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