Can you meditate with your eyes open

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as you said that sleep means uh close

your eyes and unaware and meditation

means uh okay close your eyes but be

aware can we do with regard to this can

we do the meditation with open eye

once there was a Sufi

master his name was

Ibraim in Ibrahim's ashum there were

many

people one day two disciples met in his

garden in the garden the ashram both

were little

frustrated and both of them said I wish

we could

smoke they want to

smoke but they're in an

ashroom so then they talked about it for

some time and said why don't we go and

ask the

master can we

smoke they decided to go and ask him

separately then Next evening one man was

again sitting in the same spot

frustrated another man came smoking hey

you're smoking how can you smoke master

told me not to

smoke what did you ask him he said I

asked him can I smoke when I'm

meditating he said no how are you

smoking he said that's your problem i

asked him when I can I meditate when I'm

smoking he said

"Okay." So right

now can I meditate with my eyes open no

with eyes open can I be meditative

yes but in my meditation can I open my

eyes

no

okay in fact the syama we are talking

about you know did we mention something

about Samy yeah the syama

meditations are basically to train you

to become to meditate with eyes open so

that 24 hours no matter what you're

doing you're constantly meditating

actively with eyes open in all the

activity that you perform you can become

active

meditation then it's a different world

by itself so Samyama meditations are for

that purpose to train you to open eyes

and meditate

But don't let him shun you with eyes

open with eyes closed staying aware you

know how many problems you have you open

your eyes where all you will go

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