Is meditation a good thing?
- yes
- no
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Does meditation really help? if so, how?
I definitely vote for ‘yes’. Meditation helps you to concentrate. This is way to gain more mentally power, to form your strong mind and to teach your brain work in the way you deserve to. It’s useful and advisable - I’ve been meditating for 8-9 months while I was training Karate and I learnt how to control my body in a way that I can’t even imagine without meditation.
After meditation, I find myself able to think more “clearly” so to speak; that is, it is easier for me to focus my attention on whatever it is that I have to do, or wish to do. Furthermore, after meditation I seem to always be more atune to my environment, what goes on around me, and details that I am not usually aware of. So, for these practical purpose, I say a definite yes to meditation.
In fact, I think I’m gonna go do it right now – I really ought to get myself into making this a daily habit. Ommmmmmm – OK., fine, I say Rammmmm, which certainly works for me. Oh, and, it also really helps one relax when one is under stressful situations. For instance, I had to go into surgery, be sedated and what not, and I was calm as ever simply by focusing on my meditative mantra which seems to just float around my subconscious, since I’ve done it quite a few times. Its like a quiet, mindless, place to retreat to when one is under stress.
I love the title of the thread.
I recall reading a suggestion from Zen Buddhism that one should walk until exhaustion sets in and then you should just LOOK.
In this sense being tired helps to remove thoughts from the mind and allows you to see the reality of your surroundings.
So, I like to go for long walks as a method of finding some calm.
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Can someone post different methods for meditation? I’ve almost forgotten how to concentrate on myself so deep…
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True meditative practice has been so clobbered up with do it this way, do it that way, that it’s almost like reading “A 1001 recipes for hamburger”.
Meditation can happen any time, any place, under any circumstances. It probabably is best when beginning to find a quiet place or at least an environment in which you are comfortable.
This may sound odd (it always does), but meditation revolves around doing absolutely nothing. It isn’t about not thinking or not feeling as so many would tell you. It is simply allowing all thoughts and sensations to come as they come without any action on your part. Become the watcher. Just observe, both what you are thinking and how you are reacting to your thoughts, Do this without any judgement as to right or wrong, good or bad, just ‘see’ it. In a short time, you will simply become aware. There will just be being, Not I am, but am. That is meditation.
JT
Meditation in action! Aligning our mind with our heart through introspection. Not simply in a quiet moment, but in EVERY moment.
Total awareness of the matter at hand. That is meditation, just like JT says.
Of course sitting practice (traditional meditation) helps too, but the point of sitting is to centre one’s mind. Once the mind is centred, then the key is to not have it moved while we are in movement. There is a stillness inside the movement. Our perception comes from the stillness, from the heart. If one’s mind can be centred, focused in our daily life, there is no need for meditation in the traditional sense.
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My interest in meditation is inclining, when I’ve got my studies done in the summer I intend to pay a visit to China and find a serious pro on Taichi and the rest. To me the simplist, basist meditative experience is dozing off on the sofa after noon, or just before falling asleep at night. It made me believe the imensity of the brain’s power, it made me believe how ignorant hence how much we still own our intellect’s potential. I often so wonder what’s stoping most of us from calulating faster than computer, or having to rely on protracted painstaking effort to get a tiny thread of inspiration, or for most of us, soley reply on lucky chances. I need to know how to be crystal clear, divinely inspired, all the time, all day long, just like the most geniue geniuses there ever are, let they be Newton, Beethoven, Da Vinci or Nietzsche. I need ideas flowing to me, not me spending a miserable bitter life time in the attempt to get a few ideas that at their best, only amuse the dumbest among the herd. My victory wouldn’t be two minute wonder, it’d be a victory over the achenemy that is ever so obnoxiously standing between me and my potential, my hands and my brains, my possessions and my desires. In short, the most complete victory there is, to overcome the current state and marchng ceaselessly to the human perfection that would be proundest son of mother nature, that is the ubermensch.