Ajay Kapoor - Free Your Mind: A Meditation Guide to Freedom and Happiness

Free Your Mind goes beyond todays fashionable mindfulness movement by using our thinking, rather than simply noting it. Kapoor carefully shows us how to use our minds to break down our mental conditioning and become truly free.

FRANZ METCALF, Author, What Would Buddha Do?

An intelligent book with many concrete examples and unique perspectives on the internal development on the road to freedom, that will be helpful for anyone on a spiritual path.

ANNABELLE ZINSER, Author, Small Bites: Mindfulness for Everyday Use

Free Your Mind offers an interesting set of guidelines for exploring and understanding the nature and potentials of your mind.

JOEL LEVEY, Author, Living in Balance: A Mindful Guide for Thriving in a Complex World

Ajay Kapoors new book, Free Your Mind, is both a good read and a practical tool for those who are new to meditation. And it offers insights for the more seasoned meditator as well.

GLENN MULLIN, Author, The Sacred Sites of the Dalai Lamas

Free Your Mind is a clever and insightful book that deftly dodges traps of philosophy, and instead guides the reader directly into their own experience. Ajay Kapoor lays out the book in a beautifully linear, accessible manner, so that the reader is taken by the hand and led, with care and clarity, to the very heart of their own Awakened Mind.

KEITH MARTIN-SMITH, Author, A Heart Blown Open

Ajay is a humble man with a wealth of knowledge, love, and compassion. His teachings and wisdom have touched and changed many lives forever, including my own.

NORA BENO

Reading Ajays book has truly changed my life. The teachings are practical, accessible, and life-altering tools, and offer peace and truth using a method to help discover our natural state of freedom simply by examining and shifting the perspective of our thoughts.

CHRISTINA BRADFORD

DEDICATION

The life of the author is dedicated to the Self.

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Copyright 2015 by Ajay Kapoor

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the author, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kapoor, Ajay, author.

Free your mind: a meditation guide to freedom and happiness / Ajay Kapoor.

pages cm

ISBN 978-1-61125-040-4

1. Meditation. 2. Spiritual life. I. Title.

BL627.K38 2015

204.35--dc23

2014031016

CONTENTS

1. This book is not an invention. It is just a recap of the Eternal Principles that govern the human mind. It states in a concise manner how to be happily fulfilled.

2. These Eternal Principles revealed themselves again in the meditations of the author who was just a seer.

3. When you will understand and practice these principles, you will start appreciating and accepting a way of life that is filled with:

a. Unconditioned Peace

b. Detachment from desires and expectations

c. Freedom from all wrong notions and conditionings

d. Living in total harmony with the Truth

e. Unconditioned love for one and all

4. This book has been received and presented in a manner that is suited to those who would not like to follow anything without clear understanding. It is written for a mind for which anything abstruse is unattractive and if it is simple and truthful, it is worth embracing.

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6. This work of deconditioning has been named Z Meditation. Z denotes the highest possibility for a human being and Meditation means detachment from the mind and realizing a state of unconditioned peace, love, and freedom.

7. Please do not try to finish the book. The best way to read it is through simultaneous contemplation and assimilation. Each point and each chapter need to be fully digested before you move on to the next ones.

Coming Home

The highest possibility for a human being is to live in unconditioned happiness and love. But when you look around, you see that almost everybody is living quite far away from this pristine state of being. The vision of Z Meditation is to bring those who are sincere and willing back home. Those who have gone away from themselves, but want to come back to their inner center, may need compassionate guidance and tools to be able to do so. Z Meditation has been serving this cause since 1997.

Coming home is possible by gaining and practicing right knowledge. It also requires letting go of the wrong knowledge. If you believe you are seeing a snake while you are looking at a rope, you get scared. In reality, you are getting scared because of your wrong vision. The snake is not there. You are only imagining that it is there. In order to get rid of your fear, it is necessary that you give up your illusion and acquire right understanding. As soon as the imaginary snake disappears, you will be peaceful.

You dont need to do anything else. Yes, for attaining freedom from your mental turmoil, you dont need to do anything else. You only need to do deep contemplation and get rid of wrong notions. You only need to gain right knowledge and practice it sincerely. Doing this, you shall obtain freedom from all fears and insecurities. You will naturally become peaceful and happy. There is no need to do any difficult yogic postures! There is no need to do any esoteric mantras. There is no need to do even those difficult visualizations. All these exercises that are taught in the name of meditation are just the initial preparatory warm-ups to gain stability. They are helpful for the beginners. But they dont change the understanding of the practitioner. The evolution of the understanding is a different game altogether. Transformation and Upliftment of the Perspective is The Way. Letting go of the illusions is the straightest Path. In the end, we will understand that the true purpose of meditation is to elevate the mind to its highest possibility of unconditioned peace and love. We will not only understand we will experience this state as our most natural state of being.

There are various rungs that a meditator must climb in this process. It begins with studying or listening to the right knowledge. The test of rightness is that it should be verifiable by one and all. If it is not and if things appear to be mysterious, there could be something wrong or very ordinary. The highest knowledge is very, very simple and easy to grasp. There is nothing esoteric about it.

Secondly, after having listened to the Truth, one needs to deeply contemplate upon it. When one does that, it gets integrated with ones life. The speed of progress depends upon the sincerity of the seeker. If spiritual growth becomes ones topmost priority in life, the destination can be reached very rapidly. We have seen people experiencing the higher states of consciousness within a few days of the work.

These are the three steps in Z Meditation practice: