Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle [...] Be water, my friend.
(Bruce Lee)
What is OpenMeditation?
Because all we need to start is the first step...
Hello and welcome to OpenSource Meditation, a project formerly known as NEM (New Era Meditation). The aim of this site is simple and strightforward: to teach you a meditation technique you can learn, use and improve in the spirit of Open Source.
After years of experiments and learning OpenMeditation has conceived the most simple routine to effectively meditate and to achive the maximum result without the need of specific knowledge or training. You can start meditating right now and you can improve this technique by partecipating to the OpenMeditators Group or sending your impressions to the address in Contacts page.
How good is it?
Because we all ask the same questions...
While every meditation technique claims higher achivement and better results, OpenMeditation tests simply showed that this Meditation methodology achive the SAME results as other techniques. That's all we need to know.
If you are already meditationg with one of the many meditation techniques and switch to OpenMeditation you will not perceive a diminuished energy, concentration of benefit.
So, while we cannot (ans won't) claim that OpenMeditation is better or superior to any meditation technique, we can pretty much assure you that it's not so different from other meditation forms.
Please, take in account that everybody's mind is different and so everybody's "better" meditation is a purely subjective feeling. So if you find out that OpenMeditation doesn't suit your taste you can switch to another meditation form or help us to improve the technique by joining the OpenMeditators Group.
You can even create your own fork of OpenMeditation if you wish, taking what you like and changing what you dislike about the entire process. Please, keep in mind that all the derived works of OpenMeditation must be subject to GPL License.
Is is better than $OtherTechnique?
Let the Fanboys run free...
The short form: I don't know, we didn't try every meditation form ever created.
I can guarantee you that it WILL function and it WILL give you far more than what you spent on it.
In addition if you'll find out a better meditation form you'll not have lost a single penny in trying this form. You have everything to win and nothing to lose. Really.
Please, do not join the OpenMeditators to flame or shout how your technique is better than this: we already know yours is the best one, but right now we're proposing this simple, trivial, "for dummy" form.
When the user get accustomed to meditation he/she will surely search for another meditation and will probabily search for yours.
We even have a beautiful page in which you can promote your own technique!
Why Open and Free?
Everything that is free is worthless...
Why a FREE and Open alternative to the current meditation techniques? Why not creating a new brand, something like SimpleMeditation© and earn a bunch of money from that?
There are a couple of different reasons:
- An OpenSource meditaton technique means that everybody si allowed and even incouraged to improve the method and to give a valueble contribute to the overall project
- A Free and Open technique means that anyone can try to use it and experience the benefits of meditation on his/her body and mind. This without moving from home, witthout having to pay for courses or classes,
- A Free and Barebone methodology means a greater simplicity and the complete differentiation from any form of religion, cult or sect. Often people do not try meditation in fear of sects or sectarisms.
- A Free and Open Meditation technique means that after experiencing this simple meditation form people may consider to try other ancient, venerable or powerfull meditation techniques. We're NOT here to steal meditators, only to create more of them.