On Meditation
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Rustic Living, Fit for Deep Mind
To learn to meditate wisely is not impossible. Many could thrive more and better by meditating wisely and well. Much depends on the good method. And every little sitting may help you guard and evolve rest for mind and body. Regular resting periods should counteract stress to some extent. [Ams 477].Go about your business fit and to the point, linking up to your advantage. Do not exploit your inner reserves. It hardly works all right to force anyone to get calm and uncomplaining; it is hardly different with your deeper mind. Life may get easier on you if you learn to stand by your assets and even increase them - save money, for example - than to dispense with things. Many teach meditation and yoga these days. The Western lifestyle and its strains and abuses is a great reason, for yoga and meditation counteract it, or gives release - Few consider that if you can stand more exploitation and abuse - by mainstream yoga and meditation and many other ways, you do not manage ideally. You have to build a life-style that fits you too, ideally.
Heaven is said to be inside. 'Heaven' is a word, what is inside is the Deep Mind
Many big-sounding words and ideas may appear and disturb the practice. There is at times a deep need to digest hard experiences - it is not so bad to be distracted by the mental handling of it in the meditation. You get caught on a memory train and try to stay aware anyway, focusing on the method as best you can till you get aware that - oops, you drifted again. This happens to many, and not seldom. Try to avoid or lessen it by steady, relaxed focus on your fit method. Otherwise memories, memory fractions, reveries, and other
distractions may crowd out very much of the time you have set off for practice. The risk is waste of time. If you contemplate well for a while, maybe you get happy.
You can
follow suit and link up to the very best ancestors
To follow suit in these times, an education is much to go for. And so are instructions from your nearest of kin, hopefully. Maybe you can take off from accumulated winnings of near ones if you find them interesting. If not, I suggest you let it be, and stick to your main motivations. They do not tend to be fickle, and maybe they lead to gains to be had. Who knows.Learn to relax as you perform chores at home and at work, and you may be spared much trouble. You may need to know how to handle some persons too, even psychopath bosses above you. Many diseases are psychosomatic, one half to two thirds of most common ailments have a psychosomatic component, medical doctors estimate.
Check now and then how well you are doing in various alleys; some self-tests assist it. Maybe you can ferret them out and sort out the rubbish tests. There are difference between "all sorts of tests", valid tests, and reliable tests. It pays to discern between them, and go for reliable, valid wisdom too. And do not be reckless or sloppy about meditating if you do not have an experienced instructor. If your attainments go beyond those of the instructor's, you may be ill advised by that one. [Ams 477 ff.
Adjust to how the mind works naturally: allow it its say as you practice. Tune into hints from the poignant dreams you get as you move ahead - that is one method. ¤
Mud can be filtered and also allowed to settle
Minds are compared to lakes, and some lakes are muddy. A sitting (session) is like clearing the water of the mind so it gets limpid. Ruminating on experiences may assist the filtering. The mind is an intriguing thing to understand, and so is the psychosomatic connection - how mind operates in the body and sensing, and how the body and sensing affects the mind. The Deep Mind is the thing to go into in deep meditation, and thoughts of Padma-Sambhava are well worth noting. Being literal about descriptions of "heavens" and other things outside of your experience, may serve to block you from having a keen, alert mind that registers the experiences you do have. In short, being literal-minded may block you. [LINK] . ¤
Summary
- As you work and contemplate in a flow or rhythm that suits you, avoid being strangled by abuse and exploitation of your resources. You have to get as much as you give, or you get impoverished. That is a main rule of self-preservation. If you improve your lot and lots of others, you go ahead with skill.
- Follow suit and learn handling skills and rewarding practices too.
- Deep Mind seldom incapacitates a guy, although there are defence mechanisms in some layers of the mind that could work trouble if they get fixed or set and conditions change. So go about your business as relaxed as you can, drop being nosy, and profit more from daily life encounters.
Go for Accruing Benefits
Be recurrently divested of language for more time and harvest many benefits
A man should go for benefits that accrue and tend to get stored in good neighbourhoods
if possible.
When you know how to, think hamsa, but not as it is written ...
A man should
go for benefits that accrue and tend to get stored in good neighbourhoods if
possible
Meditation can be variously described as "sound diving", "diving", "slipping" and even "insensible flying". If you do not have meditation experiences, these terms may not tell much, unless you read into stories and sayings of yogis where they are used. Ramakrishna is one source of such formulations. He describes meditation experiences at length in a large work, The Gospel of Ramakrishna. It is in part on-line these days.Allusions and figurative mentions are not easy to deal with for the literal-minded of fixed mentalities and stubborn habits. Maintain integrity and lax proficiency as best he can, if surrounded by them. And the effects or fruits of "gentle slips" (meditation sessions) by "duck sounds" and the like as you fathom your inner sides - "plumb yourself", well, they may be accumulative. It means you can build health reserves through the best meditation methods available in the West. But not all are for free.
Effects of some meditation methods:
- Maybe nothing is perceive, especially if you mainly sit down to let the mind drift and rove about. Make the sessions a part of your quality time instead.
- Maybe some more peace and poise in the start, maybe not. After all, much depends on your associates and the damages they do to you, on your standing in life, on the respect you get and deserve, and on how congenital and rewarding your neighbourhood is. Not everyone lives in a castle to their benefit either.
- Maybe you should become sterner. The bet is "yes".
- Anyway, learn to meditate. Being exact, to the point, and meticulous could helps, and elsewhere too. ¤
Be
recurrently divested of language for more time and harvest many benefits
REGULAR periods, remain tidy, enjoy titbits of nature. The sight of a duck, goose, or swan in the sky: Is a flying duck something to look up to as it
passes you overhead? Of course. You do not have to be a hunter to appreciate the bird. Aesthetic pleasures reach high. The first experience of
higher states came to Paramahansa Ramakrishna
when he was a boy of seven or so and looked up one day. There he saw some swans flying
across the sky - the sight took his breath away and he fell into a swoon. You do not have to do that to rally nature sights.Koan: By saying "swan" in Sanskrit, can you make yourself into one? Figuratively?
You should know exactly how to and eliminate possible bad sides to the enterprise, if possible. A complete training program may pave the way for you and go a long way. But do not overdo it . . .
Summary
- The best meditation methods - who are they and where can you get them? What do they cost and what will they require of your living?
- It is much all right to use meditation for different ends. They include better health, if it matters. A survey of such benefits may be shown on the next page - later.
Onword
There are many who exploit the earth, verdure, animals, and less lucky humans. Exploited ones, for example in the stress of living in cities, may feel deplete of energy and start to feel lacks. Some turn to miracle helpers "as shown on TV" and so on, others turn to self-help training and instructions. Peel of the "fantastic" from the ads, and see if the things are "neat and handy" instead. If so, they may be worth buying, if affordable.The same goes for self-help methods. Learn to check if the methods or other means really work, and judge how good the proof is and how far it goes. Take a look at the teacher and tone - is it dogmatic? Is your part in "the play" "the little one"? Maybe you are made an ass of already there. It could be. Authoritarian structures and attitudes demand that some are bottomers.
On these pages we have sought to put meditation in perspective. Be alerted to this:
Not all learn to meditate in order to explore inner sides to themselves.We suggest you sort out bad elements and focus on winning streaks and parts of yoga and meditation. That could work well for a long time. Know what you are up to in gross outline before you invest mind, other resources, and valuable time. That shows good sense. Steer along and drop abuse.
And not all who seek to explore inner sides to themselves, manage it.
Not all who learn to meditate delight in it. Maybe one third continues with the drill, maybe even less.
Not all who delight in meditation stick to it either, and the reasons may be varied.
Among those who keep it up and practices a fair method or set of methods, some perceive no progress, others little progress, and so on upwards.
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Literature
Ams: Atkinson, Richard, et al. Introduction to Psychology. 9th ed. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1987.
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