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The Difference Between Static and Dynamic Meditation · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  When an individual sits for meditation, does he come out of
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  the meditation changed in some way?
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  Or as meditation, something like a state of stasis where time
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  goes by but nothing happens. Is the individual taking a
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  timeout from life, but not moving the purpose and focus of
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  the life forward. These questions arise when we
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  examine the statements of those who attempt meditation and who
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  report they simply saw rounds of thoughts and sense, Impressions
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  impinging on them and that they wound up following these until
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  they noticed it and then tried to draw back until the next
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  ones, captured them or else that they found they were simply
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  nodding off. Many people who take up
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  meditation report, they may feel more relaxed or peaceful at the
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  end, but realistically, their actions afterwards have not
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  changed in any meaningful way. As with anything, an individual
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  does in his life, there is a reason or motive behind it.
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  If one begins meditation without a clear sense of purpose without
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  an aspiration directed. That purpose, then it tends to
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  Simply Be static and does not Aid much.
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  If at all in the actualization of The Seekers ultimate purpose
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  in the life. This leads to the question of
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  whether meditation can be dynamic and focused without
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  simply becoming another vehicle of expressing some form of vital
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  ambition. Ultimately everyone acts in the
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  world. The action can be motivated by
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  ego and vital ambition, but it can also be directed toward a
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  higher aspiration and the transformation of human life.
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  It can be an attempt to deny life or an attempt to affirm
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  life. Everything depends on the
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  direction and sincerity of The Seekers motivation in the
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  action, a disciple asks, what does SRI aurobindo mean by a
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  self Dinah mising meditation? The mother responds quote.
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  It is a meditation that has the power of transforming your
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  being. It is a meditation which makes
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  you progress as opposed to static meditation, which is
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  immobile and relatively inert, and which changes nothing in
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  your Consciousness or in your way of being a dynamic
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  meditation, is a meditation of transformation.
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  Generally people don't have a dynamic meditation when they
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  enter into meditation, or at least what they call meditation.
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  They enter into a kind of immobility where nothing stirs
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  and they come out of it. Exactly.
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  As they went in without any change, either in their being or
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  in their Consciousness and the more motionless, it is, the
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  happier they are. They could meditate in this way
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  for eternity'. It would never change anything
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  either in the universe or in themselves.
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  That is why SRI aurobindo speaks of a dynamic meditation, which
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  is exactly the very opposite. It is a transforming meditation
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  in quote reference SRI aurobindo in the mother growing within the
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  psychology of inner development. Chapter 5 growth of
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  Consciousness means and methods Pages 87 to 88.