The search for direct experience and the inner light of reality

MOMENTARY NOTING CONCENTRATION

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Gerry Ewasiuk has had a lifetime of interest in "how things work", and now especially in the areas of emotional and mental development, experiential learning, and self-actualization. This momentary noting concentration program is concerned with experiential knowing, Self-Actualization and the purification of one's own consciousness - which isn't as complicated as it may sound.

Although I know that I am not my story, which is progressively less interesting to me these days, my daughter Jen has suggested that people might want to know more about the travels of the author of this program.

After a decade as a Business Training Consultant, I have been following a personal objective to discover more about the intuitive and experiential attainment of what Abraham Maslow (3) once theorized as "Actualization", but which I have come to recognize, cannot be attained by people who are established in the normal waking-state relative field, world-view.

Mainly to explore Actualization, I have spent most of the last fourteen years in India, Korea, and Thailand, learning something about the Vedanantic Raja Yoga Wisdom, and the Theravada and Zen Mahayana Buddhist philosophical and experiential solutions to the "Truth and Actualization Enigma", which is:

"How is it possible to attain Insight-Wisdom and Self-Actualization, if it cannot be perceived in the normal waking-state relative field, and if it cannot be known by anything in that field?"

( The short answer is: for a person to shift into that state of conscious awareness, one will have to re-perceive, or to reframe their vision, out of the limited viewpoint of the world-view, and into the expanded dimension of Calm Abiding and Onepointedness. )

I graduated from the University of Alberta in Edmonton Canada, and was the accounting controller of two manufacturing plants for Canadian General Electric Co. Ltd. in Toronto.

Then as an independent Business Training Consultant in the Petroleum Services Industry in Calgary Canada, I was able to help more than 2000 Professional Engineers, Managers and Salesmen to discover how to get better results in their own jobs, how to use sound humanitarian methods and micro-economic techniques to keep themselves and their fellow employees organized and motivated, and how to earn and deserve the confidence of their clients and customers.

When I quit that work at the age of 40, the fun started. I moved into the beautiful mountains of the British Columbia interior in Western Canada, and began to sense the possibility that meditation might hold the key to Self- Actualization, and that it might be "the" very important ingredient that I had been missing in my life. At that time I was also involved in learning and practicing the alternative healing processes of numerology, reflexology, and breath therapy.

I soon found that I liked to meditate with, and to relate with, gentle, eccentric people. After exploring meditation with a few meditation groups, I was fortunate to be invited, by an elderly and proud bag-lady friend, that I was trying to help but who was actually helping me, to meet with a small meditation group that was composed mostly of Doukhabor-Canadians, descendents of pacifist Christians originally from Russia, a few of whom had begun to follow the teachings of the Hindu Vedanantic Guru, Swami Shyam,(1), who lives in the Himalyas in Northern India. When three of my friends decided to visit Kullu, I was able to travel with them and found out, on the first meeting with Swami Shyam, that there must have been something good in my karma that got me there. This is where I wanted to live - and I was able to stay there for more than three wondrous years.

Living in Northern India - in the Himalya mountains - is a wonderful treat. There you'll find a gentle and busy culture where people are still caring, accepting and industrious, while many still have the capacity to calmly relax and to just "watch". The foods - including the dahl, chapattis, curried mixed vegetables and masala chai - are all so very tasty, and they are used as basic Ayurvedic medicines. Many women are able to cook the combinations of herbal ingredients that their individual family members need for their current physical conditions, healthy or not, on the days they need it.

The air there is fresh and clean, and meditation at higher altitudes is deep and easy - especially when you are within the vocal range of an actualizing meditation master and any of a number of the excellent teachers who are permanently affiliated with the IMI community.

After three years in India, I moved to South Korea to study Zen-Mahayana meditation and to teach conversational English. Somewhat like moving back to the West, Korea is mostly industrialized, and most people are are trying to race ahead. Korean food is tasty and healthy, and many Koreans understand chinese medicine and are still able to use herbs for basic healing.

The Korean temples are wonderful: not only are they beautiful to see and to visit, but their ultra-heavy construction makes every temple highly suitable for deep tranquility meditation. Because each temple roof weighs many, many tons, the interior space feels as deep and solid as an underground cave. This makes the quieter, less frequently used temples also highly suitable for insight meditation. I found the Soen ( Zen ) meditation to be positive, interesting and highly logical and thinking-oriented.

During the four years in Korea, I began to visit Thailand and discover that it too has a vibrant and unique culture of its own. The Thai people are disarmingly kind and gentle, and most would rather smile and be gracious and forgiving than to be dour and serious. There is always a wonderful variety of fruit and vegetables available in the day-markets, and the night-markets are alive with pleasant scents, foods, fabrics and tasteful handicrafts. And touring in the mountains, amongst the many hilltribe villages is fascinating all year around.

In Theravada Buddhism, insight meditation is taught at a more basic, essential level, and it is one of the few places where you can find out about traditional momentary noting concentration. I had the good fortune to learn this practice under the direction of Longpo Tong, the Abbot of Wat Sri Prahtat Chom Tong.

After living in small towns in the north-western-most province, where I was able to do my daily meditation and to gain some very useful experiences, especially in Tha-Ton and in the verdant jungle surrounding Doi Chiang Dao, a thermally active, extinct, volcano. As it is now, I have recently returned to live in Western Canada.

( Fourteen years, don't they go by in a blink. )

The name 'Jeevant' is my nick-name, my goal, and my continuing affirmation. It relates to "the state of pure consciousness beyond the mundane life", and it relates to "That which knows". The name was proposed by Swami Shyam and I gratefully accepted it in Kullu India, in 1996.

Although I know that no name has any real meaning, still, at that time my eyes filled with tears of gladness as it finally dawned on me that after 50 years, I didn't have to be that Gerry, anymore.

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About the Author's Search for "THE INNER LIGHT OF REALITY" through meditation techniques based on Theravada and Zen Mahayana Buddhism, Raja Yoga Wisdom, and practice-generated direct experience.