About Meditation
Meditation the Innate Capacity
Meditation is an innate human capacity.
The Power of Meditation
Meditation has the power to transform the body, mind and life.
The True Difficulty of Meditation
The true difficulty of meditation is not how to do it but why to do it.
Meditation and School
Meditation is like going to school where you gain new knowledge by seeing for yourself instead of accepting words from books and teachers.
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In school, the knowledge is about nonself. In meditation, the knowledge is about both self and nonself.
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In school, we use ordinary intelligence. In meditation, we use great intelligence.
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Ordinary intelligence sees only the cup but great intelligence sees the self and the world in the cup.
Meditation for Beginners
Doing the opposite of what we usually do is a meditation. Not doing instead of doing. Being aware instead of unaware. Being in charge instead of on autopilot. Watching yourself instead of others. Sitting upright instead of slouching.
Actionless Action
Meditation is actionless action. It brings changes to your body, your mind, your life and even people around you.
Your Breath
Your breath is a bridge connecting your body, your mind and the world including countless living beings, while also connecting you to past and future.
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Breathing is connecting to the world.
Not Breathing Alone
You are not breathing alone but with the universe.
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If you look deeply into your breath, you will not only discover your body and the world but also your past actions, inner self and mental states such as desires, perceptions, beliefs, limitations, motivations and contradictions.
The Vastness in One Breath
Your single breath contains vast knowledge and profound insight.
Rediscovering Sitting
When you are aware of your sitting, you will realize there are many things you did not know about your sitting. The more you are aware of your sitting, the more you will realize there are many things you did not know not only about your sitting, but also about yourself and your life. The same is true for standing, walking, breathing, eating, thinking and many other things that you do daily.
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From your sitting, you can gain insight about yourself, your life and the world. The insight can give you the wisdom you need to live your life well. The same is true for standing, walking, breathing and many other things that you do daily.
The True Value of Meditation
Meditation grows you within to meet your true teacher, your own life.
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Meditation leads us to liberating realization. For example, the things that we try to eliminate in our meditation are our own creations and we often create our own suffering.
Meditation Becomes Difficult
Meditation becomes difficult when you do it the difficult way.
Distractions in Meditation
If something distracts your meditation, it means you do not know how to benefit from it.
Useful Things Become Useless
A useful thing becomes useless when you do not know how to use it. So do adversities in life and the thoughts that come during meditation.
A Breeding Ground
Unchecked mind can become a breeding ground for unwanted thoughts, much like an abandoned house that attracts unwanted things.
Urges in Meditation
It is liberating to realize that you do not have to do anything now even though you have the urge to do something in your meditation.
Repeating the Same Practice Means
Repeating the same practice over and over a long period of time tells that your meditation practice is stuck.
Stagnant Meditation
If you watched your breath for 10 years and learned little or nothing, it is like you went school for 10 years and learned little or nothing.
What You Are Given in Meditation
Your meditation progresses if you get what you are given in meditation. Your meditation stagnates if you do not get what you are given in meditation. Your meditation becomes difficult if you ignore what you are given and you tried to get what you are not given instead.
Distracting Thoughts
Distracting thoughts are a treasure if you learn and benefit from them, but a hindrance if you cannot.
What Disturb Your Meditation
Your current experience that you can not benefit from can disturb your meditation.
Mental Chatter
Benefit from your mental chatter in your meditation rather than trying to get rid of it or running away from it.
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Your mental chatter is your creation.
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Your mental chatter tells you so much about yourself and the world you live in.
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Mental chatter helps you to advance your meditation and improve your life when you learn from it. It tells you who you are. It tells your past and future. It tells you the world you live in. It tells you why you have mental chatter and how to make the mental chatter retire. It tells your life problems and causes.
Eliminating Mental Chatter
Not creating mental chatter is better than creating and struggling to eliminate it.
Misuse of Meditation
An unwise use of meditation could harm practitioners. If one meditates only to eliminate symptoms of problems in one’s life without eliminating the cause, the cause will continue to create more problems in one’s life. It is like silencing a fire alarm and letting the fire continue to burn.
What You Need for Enlightenment
What you need for your enlightenment is right in front of you. If you’re searching elsewhere, it is because you do not know what’s in front of you.
source: New Direction Archive