These are Ten Jedi Methods for meditation  that can lead us to happiness and fulfillment.

The First method is to realize that as soon as people are born they begin to grow old and that they eventually they die.  The world is like an inn where you stay only temporarily.   None of the beds or furniture are ever really yours.  We will all be gone soon, for no one can stay too long at an inn.

 The Second is to observe how our friends and loved ones are taken from us just as the leaves fall from a tree.  Wind and winter arrive and the leaves are gone.

 The Third method is to recognize that the world is a place where the success of the mighty and the prosperity of the wealthy never last.  They are like the moon at night.  The full moon shines on everything until clouds appear.  Or until the full moon changes into the new moon and its light is gone.

  The Fourth method  is to consider the world as a place where people steal things from others that they believe are valuable but will eventually harm them instead.  They are like moths attracted to a light who dive into the flame.

 The Fifth method is to contemplate the world as a place where the wealthy exhaust both their body and spirit accumulating treasure that cannot help them in the end.  They are like small jars that cannot hold all the rivers, lakes and seas they covet.

 The Sixth method asks you too look at the world as a place where people dally in sexual activities that bring them nothing but unhappiness instead of fulfillment.  They are like a tree infected with insects that sap its strength and eat away at its core until it dries up and breaks.

 The Seventh method is to think of the world as a place where people indulge in alcohol and other intoxicants until they are so drunk and confused they are unable to tell the good from the bad.  They are like a clear spring pool whose mirror like surface perfectly reflects everything.  But it becomes muddy and the images vanish, leaving filthy water in which nothing can be seen.

 The Eighth method calls for thinking of the world as a place where people act as if life were a game.  They sit around wasting the hours of the day and wearing out their vital spirit.  They are like a madman who imagines he has seen flowers and walks around all night trying to find them again.  In the end he is exhausted, alone and he sees nothing.

 The Ninth method is to think of the world as a place where people go from one religion to another looking for the truth but only finding confusion.  They are like a skilled craftsman who carves an ox and paints it until the statue resembles the real thing.  But when he tries to use it to plow his field, the ox is good for nothing.

 The Tenth method is to contemplate the world as a place where people seem to be following these principles, but in actuality they are deceiving themselves and helping no one.  They are like an oyster that holds a bright pearl.  A fisherman breaks the oyster to extract the pearl and the oyster dies.  The pearl looks beautiful but the oyster is dead.

 These are ten methods that we Jedi use. Though there are many more methods that we Jedi use as we progress, these are just some of the basic ones that help build a foundation so that we can blossom on the path to Illumination.

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