SageTree

Meditation Class
This is a pretty neat little model to get you started. More simple than some of the wordier explanations below.

Loving Kindness (Metta)
Insight Meditation (Vipasana)

All links and sources are available here at the main page, and much much more. .buddhanet.net

Namaste
SageTree

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verklingen

meditation is like, really important guys

brain scans of meditators show a thickening of neurons in areas related to attention, decision making and memory. and if you ask me, meditating keeps me in tune with myself so i'm not just idly cruising through life on auto-pilot and continuing to regret what i end up getting myself into. it really just tempers your will to be. there's an expanded clarity of self-assured confidence. the fact that it affects your brain this way is truly phenomenal. . . it's like brain centers are evolving right before our eyes! and that's exactly how meditating, by helping me to develop what sage aptly likes to call "mindfulness," makes me feel: like i'm moving ahead to the next stage!

the simplest method is to sit or lie comfortably, close your eyes and simply breathe; evenly, deeply. there's just you and your breath. see where it takes you

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Mydriasis

I'm learning! Thanks for the links.

And verk I had no idea about the literal physical benefits of meditation. I have noticed I've felt better when I regularly meditate.

Exciting world

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SageTree

I certainly agree with everything you said Verk. Just sitting and watching my breath is often what I do. However it's one of the four things to work with, within the body.

So, I mainly posted some ideas for people since, I observe, there is there over whelming feeling of not doing it right. Which basically can't happen, but I thought it would be nice to through out some scaffolding that people could leap from.

When he have insights into our behaviour we are alloted the time to choose as we become more aware of how thoughts arise, therefore each time we actively move to a positive action and new neural pathway is strengthen as the former habitual pathway atrophies. You were more specific to the area, but you touched on this as well. Our brains are a 'muscle' and must be used actively to maintain health overall.

I would like to add, that for me, the confidence you spoke of comes from the place of non-attachment to the happen to me and my, and rather focus on awareness happening and 'me' being the set of factors there to relate it in a relative and ultimate sense. Discovering that we can learn to bend and not break with the things that arise on the cushion, dramatically effects our means of recovery time off the cushion.

Namaste
~Sage

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Mydriasis

Thanks for that sage! Cuz I often wondered if I was doing it right. I am obviously self-taught and wondered how people "learn" to meditate.

I felt as if I have learned it but I would discuss with one of my friends about it and he would be all caught up in what poses I was using and what mantras, etc. When I'd share my findings with him he'd pretty much write them off as if I was a wannabe or something.

Which sure I may want to meditate, and no I'm no were near a guru or an expert nor do I practice regularly. but I still feel as though I understand the basics of meditation of

Here are some of the basic findings I have stumbled on.
- Awareness of breath.
- Open airways(which is the purpose of the positions?)
- and being relaxed enough to "fly" but being concentrated enough not to be "led away"

some of my realizations I have semirecently stumbled upon(post Mescaline and more-so post DMT experiences):
- Awareness of the energy inside of breathe. Visualization of this and feeling it
- Energy centers, but more so how energy travels. I feel it flow through my lungs(inhale) then fill my abdomen/stomache(moment between breathe) and sore through my veins/nerves and can guide it(sometimes) out of my hands or head(exhale).

I feel as though the body is a vessel for this almost as though by design it was meant to meditate. Not that all of it is intuitive, but that with enough exploration and knowing the dichotomies of thought(pace and depth) you can find the right balance and sustain it.

One of the weird things I have noticed lately right or wrong I have no idea. But when I am not trying to guide or harness energy, sometimes I catch my breathes not being parabolic or "bell" shaped(equal inhales, equal hold, equal exhale). Sometimes I try to just forget I can even exhale and forget I have a body and just be. Sure my heart is still beating but I have found this to give a very different effect. As a smoker(working on quitting) it feels like I can hold my breathe for a VERRY long time(whether it's perception or not I don't care to time).

Kind of a bunch of mumble but I felt like talking about what I've been doing.

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stonerkid

this is a sweet thread!
when i try meditating i often end up imaging a ball of energy and i put all my bad thoughts/feelings and thing i don't want in my body (like if im trying to sleep ill put my energy in the ball) then i imagine shooting the ball into the sun and have it vaporise into thousands of different chemicals or ill send it down thru whatever im sitting/lying on into the lavarock below to be processed by the earth

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SageTree

I would like to make it abundantly clear that this is a form of meditation and isn't exclusively THE way. There are many many ideas about the goals and aims throughout religion and spiritual paths and are as abundantly different as the people who practice them.

What I am speaking of is Buddhist-Centric Way of approaching the awareness. Do I think they differ in the end? Only in the way we talk about them, I believe. Hinduism and Buddhism are linked in terminology many times, yet differ in their way to approach discovering what the true nature of our lives are. Quakers worship in silence, Dervishes whirl and the Catholics roll the rosary.

I post this as an offering to help. Take what is good from it if you will. As much or as little as needed. What I think is most important intention in this post is sharing how people relate and create.

For myself the more I know about others, the more I know about my self, relative meaning of self. That is,I believe we are all of One, so literally the more I see others in myself, the more my self blends into them.

We all want to be happiness and its causes and We all want safety. At least this much we share. And that is a start to Knowing.

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