Meditation and Insight
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.
Meditation the Innate Capacity 2
Meditation is an innate capacity like walking.
The Power of Meditation
Meditation has the power to transform the body, mind and life.
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.
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.
True Meditation
True meditation addresses the inner cause, not just its symptoms.
The True Value of Meditation 3
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.
Not Breathing Alone
You are not breathing alone but with the universe.
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.
Each Breath
Each breath provides a chance to truly live.
Breath Awareness and Insight
Paying attention to one’s breath reveals deep insights into oneself and the world.
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.
The True Difficulty of Meditation
The true difficulty of meditation is not how to do it but why to do it.
Better Than Trying to Stop Thinking
Not inviting unwanted thoughts is better than trying to stop them.
Mental Chatter
Benefit from your mental chatter in your meditation rather than trying to get rid of it or running away from it.
Mental Chatter 2
Your mental chatter is your creation.
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.
Breathing 3
Breathing is connecting to the world.
Each Breath 2
Each breath provides an opportunity to live better.
Self-Knowledge 2
Knowledge empowers, self-knowledge transforms.
Basic Human Knowledge
Knowing what your body and mind are doing is a basic human knowledge. Without it, you can not live as the owner of your life but as a servant, even with all the wealth and power in the world.
Rediscovering Walking
How you use your feet and body while walking is important, but how you use your mind is even more important.
Living on Autopilot
Lack of self-awareness leads to living on autopilot.
The True Value of Meditation
Meditation grows you within to meet your true teacher, your own life.
What You See
What you see is because of what you do not see.
Great Intelligence 2
Ordinary intelligence sees only the cup but great intelligence sees the self and the world in the cup.
Living on Autopilot
Lack of self-awareness leads to living on autopilot.
An Obstacle to Knowing
Not knowing what you do not know is an obstacle to knowing.
From Contradiction to Transformation
Knowing one’s own contradictions is the beginning of knowing one’s own ignorance. Knowing one’s own ignorance is the beginning of knowing oneself. Knowing oneself is the beginning of self-transformation.
Intelligence and Wisdom
Knowing truth is intelligence. Knowing truth from untruth is wisdom.
Three Kinds of Knowledge 3
Knowledge of nonself, the conventional knowledge, helps you get what you think you want. Knowledge of self helps you know what you truly want. Knowledge of both helps you grow beyond desire.
The True Value of Meditation 5
Meditation unlocks deep human potential by cultivating self-awareness and inner growth.
Inner Growth
Inner growth is essentially the process of realizing and solving our own contradictions, such as why we often create our own suffering despite not wanting it.
Transformation Through Benefiting Others
By benefiting others, we honor the sacrifices and contributions of all living beings that made our lives possible, and transform ourselves and the world for the better.
World Transformation
Transforming ourselves within transforms our world.
source: New Direction Archive