A. Not at all.🔗

I always say, any technique that can raise your awareness is meditation.

It does not matter what you do, it is how you do it. If a technique is helping you be more aware, more centered, more joyous, it means it is working for you. Initiation is one of the processes. It is for those who feel connected to some saint, some enlightened Master. For them, it is the right thing.

Understand, without awareness, even if you are in the presence of the Master, it will be just a ritual. Without awareness, even meditation is just a ritual. With awareness, even a ritual can become meditation.

For the alert seeker, anything can be transformed into meditation. In the ancient spiritual text, Shiva Sutras, over 50,000 meditation techniques have been described for giving you a glimpse of that state. Even without an initiation, just a sincere practice of these techniques can lead you to satori, the first glimpse of enlightenment.