mindfulness and meditation
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The moment without duration There is a moment in meditation — not every sitting, not on schedule — when the boundary between the one observing and the thing observed dissolves. You are not watching your breath. Something prior to the categories opens.... What makes learning about the ultimate easier in the modern era, and what makes it harder?: The Story
Ten thousand people in silence In 2003, a Burmese meditation teacher named S. N. Goenka filled Madison Square Garden with ten thousand people sitting in silence. Most had found their way there through a website.... Is everything a projection?: Buddhists
Twenty-five hundred years of patience A man sat under a tree and watched his mind construct the world. Not metaphorically. He watched craving arise, watched it project a self that craved, watched the self project a world of objects to crave, and watched the entire architecture... What is enlightenment?: The Story
Sit down, shut up, keep sitting In 1966, a Zen master named Shunryu Suzuki arrived in San Francisco and opened a meditation center in a former synagogue. He told his students to sit still, face a wall, and count their breaths. Some had come from acid trips.... Love this reply! Thanks! I would agree that feeling the energy of anger is very difficult. In meditation, people talk about that being the hardest energy to meditate on.... This can be very tricky. In my experience body led has a clean feel to it. It is the voice in the quiet still place inside. That voice in the stillness will continue to "ring true" no matter how loud other responses are- conditioned responses telling you not to listen to your... One thing I notice about Circling, if person A offers person B something, person A is (at least culturally) more likely to ask, "What's underneath it for you?", as if they're asking, "What's this cocaine cut with?" It's rarely believed in Circling if the underneath isn't... Providing environments for learning
Imagine you’re attending a meditation workshop and the facilitator invites you to lean into stillness. After a few seconds, they start giving cues on how to be still, one after another, followed by reading a passage from a book about meditation, and then it ends.... I wonder if it’s just because either We do a poor job at seeing ourselves so we don’t see the subtle accumulations. Metaphor would be doing a big house clean and then going, "Well the house is clean, I don’t have to clean it again, maybe ever this time".... @Philip - I’m not consistent with daily practices because it can feel like a chore after some time. I usually follow what feels alive and then may have a season of daily practices. For example, within the last week, I’ve been drawn to meditate daily....