Meditation

[zenzero]

Friends,

Those who meditate kindly share
1. METHOD of meditation followed.
2. TIME spent
3. OBJECTIVE of meditation
4. how much near do you feel you are to that goal.

Personally
1.meditate at most times by bring awareness of breathing and the soundless sound or rather just being conscious.
2. Most waking hours
3. To still the mind
4. Very very far as out of nowhere one thought relevant to the present crops up and then meditate on that thought and go about doing the needfful with awareness.

Love & rgds

 

[3.14]

relaxed sitting position
10 min
recent issues or philosofical qeustions
its not a liniar progression

 

[Troublemane]

1. Method: I sometimes do pranic circulation, sometimes just basic pranayama.

2. Time: though i used to do zazen for hours, i dont need to do it much anymore. A few minutes is all it takes.

3. Objective: Im starting to find myself circulating prana more for other people than for myself, these days.

4. Success: I feel that circulating prana has immediate and beneficial effects, to unblock energy both in myself and in others around me. Keeping the energy moving is the key to keeping it from getting stuck. :angel2:

 

[nameless]

I have heard some where that our personal experience regarding meditation is not to be shared with others, by doing so whatever we gained through meditation -energy, powers or purity or anything will be gained by the people who knows from us. Im not sure what im saying is right or not, please correct me if im wrong.
I also feel this as true from my personal experience.

 

[Phasmid]

Friends,

Those who meditate kindly share
1. METHOD of meditation followed.
2. TIME spent
3. OBJECTIVE of meditation
4. how much near do you feel you are to that goal.

Love & rgds

1. Breathing meditation. I start by imagining my problems and worries manifest themselves as black smoke in my lungs. I focuss on breathing out the black smoke. With each exhilation, the smoke in my lungs clears little by little. Once my lungs are 'clear' I focus on breathing in white light until my whole body is glowing.

All this helps one focus on inhaling and exhaling. So once I've completed the above, I simply focus on my breath.

2. I focus on the smoke/light for about 10 minutes, then I focus completely (or try to) on my breath for another 10 minutes.

I do this twice a day. Once when I get up and once before going to bed. I have to halve the afforementioned times to 5 minutes on each section on school days.

3. I find it helps me keep things in perspective. It relaxes my body and mind and helps me stay more aware during the day. If I don't meditate for a while, I find it's easier to lose control to my emotions.

A typical example. If I hadn't meditated in a week or so and I was kind of tired and someone did something to annoy me, then I would likely snap and say something I would regret.

If, however, I had been meditating regularly, I would have stopped when someone angered me, thought, "Hmm... that really annoyed me" and kind of have a dialog with the anger as if it were a person. This little gap between external stimulus and reaction, allows one to make the correct response. So instead of getting angry and hurling abuse at the person, I'd just see the situation for what it is - likely nothing important - and let it go.

Meditation is good for its own sake. But there's something else that draws me to it... and I'm not quite sure what that is. There's definately a feeling of connection there.

4. It's hit and miss

Sometimes I'll just be a grumpy git all day. Even if this is the case, meditation definately helps.

 

[Phasmid]

4. Success: I feel that circulating prana has immediate and beneficial effects, to unblock energy both in myself and in others around me. Keeping the energy moving is the key to keeping it from getting stuck. :angel2:

Hail Brother! (Thanks Azakel for sticking that phrase in my head! lol) You're posts always cheer me up, Troublemane, so I'd have to agree with you.

 

[Phasmid]

I have heard some where that our personal experience regarding meditation is not to be shared with others, by doing so whatever we gained through meditation -energy, powers or purity or anything will be gained by the people who knows from us.

Just sharing the wealth

 

[YmirGF]

*Makes note that the OP is in a group Dir*

Friends,

Those who meditate kindly share
1. METHOD of meditation followed.
2. TIME spent
3. OBJECTIVE of meditation
4. how much near do you feel you are to that goal.

Personally
1. A hybrid of my own making, based on personal research.
2. Most of the time, waking or otherwise
3. I remain unconcerned with "stilling the mind", per se, as "stillness" isn't much of a feat. My main reason is to focus "free" energy into three-dimensional reality.
4. Given there is no difference between subject and object, "nearness" is irrelevant. My goal is a bit larger than that of the average human animal's, but I have infinite patience and an infinite amount of time.

 

[zenzero]

Friend nameless,

have heard some where that our personal experience regarding meditation is not to be shared with others, by doing so whatever we gained through meditation -energy, powers or purity or anything will be gained by the people who knows from us. Im not sure what im saying is right or not, please correct me if im wrong.
I also feel this as true from my personal experience

We are not sharing experiences during meditation but just basically how each one of us meditate. Any act can be meditation. Drinking tea is a zen meditation technique in Japan which they call TEA CEREMONY.
All chinese martial arts are meditative techniques starting with TAICHI.

When one achieves the STILLNESS of mind then what one experiences cannot be explained or discussed.

Love & rgds

 

[zenzero]

Friends,
Thanks to all those who are sharing.
Sharing helps in becoming ONE.
Love & rgds

 

[ranjana]

I sit in a comfortable position, sometimes use mantra to slow mind down and focus it on the eternal sound. each thought comes and gently return focus to the central point. This may go on for a long time! Then something like a hum descends and will sit for 20-40 minutes.

May read something before hand to stimulate insight into myself.

Then, in the day in my activities, dip into that space and know it is always there, and suddenly the waves seem to calm a bit. So yes, it is definitely ongoing for me, but actual meditation is sitting with eyes closed and turning senses inward.

 

[Ben Dhyan]

Friends,

Those who meditate kindly share
1. METHOD of meditation followed.
2. TIME spent
3. OBJECTIVE of meditation
4. how much near do you feel you are to that goal.

1. From heart center, feel and be aware of the flow of energy in the body, mainly through the spine and brain, and maintain awareness of the 'aum' ringing inner sound and extraneous mind disturbances.
2. Most of the time, but interrupt it when the intensity gets to cause spine/brain cramps.
3. To complete a spiritual transformation process.
4. It can't be stated in terms of time, space, or knowledge, but it is enough to be aware that something extraordinary is unfolding, and to accept that it may require an end to my mortal life.

 

[koan]

I sit and contemplate Hwa du/ kong an.

 

[nameless]

Friends,
Thanks to all those who are sharing.
Sharing helps in becoming ONE.
Love & rgds

I prefer becoming one with only those people who are in the right path. No attachments to people who i dont know personally.

 

[zenzero]

Friend nameless,

I prefer becoming one with only those people who are in the right path. No attachments to people who i dont know personally

Sorry the message was for those who know that all forms and no-forms are all ONE, they come from the same root and go back to the same place as ONE.

Love & rgds

 

[nameless]

Sorry the message was for those who know that all forms and no-forms are all ONE, they come from the same root and go back to the same place as ONE.

All come from the same root, i agree to that, but not sure all path are capable to take us there.

Even if one practises meditation, he can be in a wrong route,if he is not properly guided.
Some people say meditation is dangerous than Nuclear Bomb if it is not properly dealed. Becoming one with such people is not a good choice.

 

[zenzero]

Friend nameless,

All come from the same root, i agree to that, but not sure all path are capable to take us there.

Even if one practises meditation, he can be in a wrong route,if he is not properly guided.
Some people say meditation is dangerous than Nuclear Bomb if it is not properly dealed. Becoming one with such people is not a good choice.

True understanding is when one has a STILL MIND.
That is the pre-qualification for the Supreme Understanding.

Love & rgds

 

[ranjana]

All come from the same root, i agree to that, but not sure all path are capable to take us there.

Even if one practises meditation, he can be in a wrong route,if he is not properly guided.
Some people say meditation is dangerous than Nuclear Bomb if it is not properly dealed. Becoming one with such people is not a good choice.

i agree that not all paths are capable of leading to insight necessary for self-realization. but that's not really a problem, as ultimately you are already that, realization or no.

I think the idea of 'becoming one' with other people that is impossible, because there is no 'you' to start with, in terms of the individual. so how can an illusion become one with another illusion?

it remains that you are the source that is the source of everything; so nothing can divide you, nothing can make you less than what you are, nothing can make you more than what you are. you actually have nothing to fear! certainly not meditation! but the power that one taps into is infinitely vast, maybe that is where the nuclear bomb imagery came from? usually we attribute our actions to our own doing, our own puny little minds, but the power to do anything is beyond our creation.

 

[Seven]

I have only just recently started to practice meditation.

I take a very simple approach. I relax and keep my attention in the present and on the rhythm of my breathing. When I'm aware my attention has drifted I simply return to noticing my breaths.
I usually spend about 40 mins per session.

As for an objective, I don't really have one. In fact I think I would find having an objective would be limiting and distracting.

 

[K.Venugopal]

I started off many years ago when I realized that I am a restless fellow and that this restlessness came from a restless mind. Something told me that I could calm my mind or at least give structure to my restless mind by talking to myself non-stop. My logic was that language contains within itself order and the order of language would allow me to see logically and in thus seeing, the mind would naturally quieten itself. Of course, talking to myself non-stop (soundlessly to myself) took a long time to take-off because one is ever distracted. After many years of effortless attempts to talk non-stop, I appear to have achieved some measure of success. Sometimes the continuum is not broken even in sleep. Now I am somewhat a calm fellow and this non-stop talking I see as my technique of meditation. Higher and more powerful than language is what is called 'mantra'. I think Sanskrit is a more 'developed' language than, say, English because Sanskrit language goes to the higher realms of mantra. Since I do not know Sanskrit, I may be somewhat disadvantaged in reaching the greater heights that man has the potential to traverse (and have been traversed by many). Maybe in my next janma (lifetime), I may be blessed with knowledge of Sanskrit. Meanwhile, I am convinced that we and our circumstances have always been perfect and ever will be perfect. We have just to awaken to this truth in greater and greater measure through meditation.