The Art of Meditation: How to Overcome Inner Disturbances

“A warrior must overcome a pesky fly in order to achieve a state of tranquility. Can he achieve his goal before he is pushed to his breaking point?”

“The Fly”

An inner disturbance is whenever you have tried to silence your mind and you realize that it keeps on moving. Only when surrender and you move on to the next higher plane of pure energy, will the thoughts and inner disturbances slowly vanish.

The same, when you try to fight any disturbing outer influences such as noise you will notice that your fight is in vain – or better that the disturbance is inside and not coming from outside.

In his computer animated short “The Fly“, Hanjin Song, a graduate from a school of art and design in Florida gave an excellent illustration of this principle of meditation:

A samurai is seeking inner peace by trying to rid himself of the distraction by a fly.

However, he discovers that the flies multiply and seem to be coming at him harder and faster. Only when he starts accepting does the inner disturbance end and he really turns inward.