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Meditation for Children, seeing others as ourselves
Meditation in Children Part II
A 16-year-old teenage boy was brutally murdered after being stabbed by a gang of youths in south London (3 July 2008).
Yet another mindless death by children, inflicted upon children, bring the total number of stabbings in London to 18 over the past 6 months. Everyday we hear of brutal acts of extreme violence on innocent or young victims, the latest being two French students who were tortured, stabbed 243 times and then set alit.
As parents and society we need to take responsibility and question why our children are becoming so psychologically disturbed?
Almost from the moment of birth we start to condition children to invent a false sense of self. A self-image that is obsessed with physical appearance and inner emotional state that always seeks instant gratification based on other peoples opinions, sensory stimuli and conditioning through the constant messages from our media and our own behaviour.
This false sense of self by default is empty and fearful, empty of any self-worth, self-knowledge or joy for life, always seeking ways to make itself permanent through attachments with those things that provide it with a temporary pleasure and avoiding anything that brings about suffering, including ones own state of mind. In an attempt to avoid suffering, particularly the sense of inner emptiness, we, like our children form patterns of behaviour based on the following:
1. Distract ourselves through sensory stimuli such as alcohol, drugs
2. Generate a sense of power through slander, anger and "winning" respect
3. Accumulate possessions to feel more secure
Modern society is raising its children without any means of providing self-knowledge, which was previously provided through developing spiritual values, as opposed to today’s religious or secular values.
Children, like adults should be provided with experiential sense of self and not conceptual identities, which we all borrow from others. Mindfulness and other powerful techniques such as Symran are no longer something to be studied, but incorporated into our daily life if we are to create less violent children, we need to experience seeing others as ourselves.
© Dav S Panesar 2008 Meditation in Children part II
