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    Meditation: A tree with strong roots laughs at the storm - Malay Proverb

    June 19, 2020

    Meditation: A tree with strong roots laughs at the storm - Malay Proverb

    A tree with strong roots laughs at the storm - Malay Proverb

    Posted: 18 Jun 2020 09:15 AM PDT

    Be still. Question every thought. Contemplate the source of Reality. And keep your eyes open. You never know when something that seems entirely insignificant will split your whole world wide open into eternal delight. - Adyashanti

    Posted: 18 Jun 2020 10:57 PM PDT

    How to be calm when outside, especially shopping malls, etc?

    Posted: 19 Jun 2020 01:47 AM PDT

    And moving a lot of the time?

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    Music i choose to meditate

    Posted: 19 Jun 2020 02:38 AM PDT

    Is it possible to have forgiven someone, yet be angered, frustrated by how and what they say somethings, sometimes?

    Posted: 19 Jun 2020 01:56 AM PDT

    Just need some clarity. Have i forgiven the person, and only those certain words and manner of speaking bother me? Or i haven't forgiven the person at all.

    When i am far from them, away, i don't care what happens to them. I don't even try and stay in contact. Months of no talking. Lest bit bothered. I do feel detached from them. But i can't detach myself from what they say/do, how they say/do,.

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    Can some kind of drug induce better results with meditating?

    Posted: 19 Jun 2020 03:10 AM PDT

    My first time

    Posted: 19 Jun 2020 12:10 AM PDT

    Now I'm not 100% sure if this counts as meditation but, I was up at like four in the morning and I turned my phone off and layed there closed my eyes and sat in silence, no sound no feelings just silence, me and my mind. I didn't know what to think of, until a flood of thoughts rushed into my head of friends, family, and things I had no reason to remember. And for the first time in a long time I genuinely cried. I'm not an emotional person, but I thought of my grandpa who died of lung cancer when I was twelve, hell I don't even remember his face now. I have one memory of him and it's Christmas when he gave me this little pez dispenser when I was like six. Anyways when I opened my eyes I felt a wave of reassurance rush over me. Again I don't know if this counts but still. If you made it this far I thank you for even wanting to be interested in what I said I give you two gold stars

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    I seen an eye during mediation, what could this mean?

    Posted: 19 Jun 2020 04:20 AM PDT

    Meditating WITHOUT closing your eyes

    Posted: 18 Jun 2020 06:20 AM PDT

    Hello,

    I have been trying to implement this new "feature" into my daily practice.

    I know that beginners should stick to close their eyes to avoid distractions. Here is the downside though IMO: you are getting used to mindfulness while keeping your eyes closed.

    However, meditation is not an end in itself; the goal is to experiment mindfulness as often as possible.

    I don't think that keeping the eyes opened 100% of the time is relevant, but maybe there is a kind of balance (that is proper to everyone).

    Only my 2 cents.

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    Dealing with Complex Emotions Brought up by Meditation

    Posted: 18 Jun 2020 08:58 PM PDT

    Hello! I'm relatively new to sitting meditation (I've irregularly practiced moving meditation for years), and I've been using a lot of techniques written about by Thich Nhat Hanh. They're very helpful and I have definitely gotten in touch with mindfulness, but now that I've been practicing, some of what he calls "compost" has been brought up to the surface. I was expecting this, as I have c-PTSD partially stemming from a traumatic religious background and now I'm practicing Zen Buddhism and working through it at the same time. My question is, how does one deal with the compost of their life, especially in the aftermath of intense meditation? How do you process it and move on with your day?

    Thank you very much in advance!

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    The Benefits Of Mediation

    Posted: 18 Jun 2020 03:24 PM PDT

    Quick backstory: I'm a shy person who tried meditation before but always thought it was a waste of time. Well now I have been mediating for 3 months without missing a day and it suddenly just hit me that I am starting to open up and express myself a lot more than I ever thought I would. But with that being said I just wanted to say to anyone thinking about giving up on mediation because they feel like it's not working for them, keep meditating and make it a habit and you will notice the benefits soon.

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    The world’s suffering is getting to me.

    Posted: 18 Jun 2020 03:55 PM PDT

    Ive been meditating on and off for a couple of years now. If it has taught me one thing it's giving myself lov and having more compassion for others. When I see someone suffer, I want to help. In turn this has made me someone that people feel comfortable talking to and I do feel it has brought me a lot of wisdom and some relief to the people around me.

    However, these last months, I just cant take it anymore. People's suffering is everywhere. On the news, on the internet, we're surrounded by it. I can not fix this, I cant help these people. It feels like the immense unrest and sadness in the world right now is getting the best of me, and as a result i dont feel the strenght i need to recognize and label my own suffering and be my own guide.

    Im thankfull that im switched on and feel connected, but it's a lot to take on right now. There's so much inequality, unfairness, hate and sadness that im starting to feel lost. Can anyone relate?

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    Is it possible that the Pineal Gland is a flexible muscle in the body? Or is there an equivalent?

    Posted: 18 Jun 2020 10:32 PM PDT

    Is it possible that the Pineal Gland is a flexible muscle in the body? Or is there an equivalent?

    Today I was practicing astral projection and while I was doing my usual meditation for it, I wasn't quite feeling the intensity of the vibrations that I usually feel. I remembered that I had an innate ability to focus or enhance the vibrations by flexing a muscle in the back of my head, similar to opening your mouth in odd ways to change the tone in your ears. I usually do this through focus to condense dual-tone binaural frequencies into a singular tone in my head when I use them to assist in astral projection. Usually I'll do this if I'm having issues in the meditation process that night.

    I knew I could do this already to some degree, but now I've just realized its a flexible muscle, and it feels like "pulling a ripcord" in the back of my head. To flex this muscle it's similar to pulling back in your head, and exerting a small pressure on the eyes by flexing there, pulling back. It deeply enhances the vibrations. I'm trying to best describe it. When I was a kid I also had access to parts of my inner body, I could tense up my spine and cause shakes all through my body, it's what led me to this back of the head muscle discovery.

    I'm not sure what muscle this could equate to and I hope I articulated this right. I hope there is more information on this. Hopefully it's also not dangerous to play with. I'm in the midst of my meditations right now and was so excited to have found this, that I wanted to write it down somewhere.

    Hope you all have a peaceful night 🙏

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    1 Hour of Meditation & Relaxation Music with Nature

    Posted: 19 Jun 2020 01:06 AM PDT

    Focused attention opens the floodgates of the subconscious? Balance between concentration and insight

    Posted: 19 Jun 2020 12:55 AM PDT

    I have practiced many forms of meditation over the years, most recently I was doing pure "open monitoring" meditation with unconditional acceptance (insight), combined with psychadelic use and holotropic breathing, which eventually led me to have kundalini risings and then subsequently I would just quickly space out whenever I started a meditation session and remain in that state for hours. I stopped doing it eventually because I did not feel as if it was improving my life - I became more aimless, confused and passive the more I practiced.

    Now I have not done any meditation for almost a year yet the aimlessness and lack of drive is still there.

    I recently started back on meditation to attempt to get back some mental clarity, but I now intend to emphasize short sessions of focused attention meditation (concentration), one aim is to recognize when I'm spacing out and bring back my focus to the breath whenever this happens.

    I have noticed through the first couple of sessions (only 15min) of this purely focused attention meditation, that after the session I feel much more agitated and angsty than before.

    It feels like doing this short and intense bout of concentration meditation is opening the floodgates of my subconscious, and that it might be rather after intense focused attention that open monitoring and equinamity is useful to handle everything that comes up.

    Is this how an optimal meditation practice should be? That a balance between concentration and insight is required? I feel like doing pure insight was having negative effects on me, have not yet evaluated the effects of doing pure concentration, but it feels like doing pure concentration provokes a state of mind afterwards where some training in insight is necessary to deal with it.

    TLDR: I feel like doing pure insight meditation is bad and at the very least needs to be balanced with concentration meditation, I wish to find out the effects of doing pure concentration meditation. Any thoughts?

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    Does anyone else struggle with sticking to one kind of meditation? Is it okay to switch to one or the other depending on the mood?

    Posted: 18 Jun 2020 11:50 PM PDT

    I keep jumping around! There are so many different techniques. I used to do meditation simply following the breath and noting my thoughts as they come without judgement. But wasn't getting anywhere (I don't have a teacher yet so it was tricky initially to know my mistakes).

    Then I learned of the AYP Site which had a mantra meditation. I actually found this to be quite good, but felt like I needed a bit more instruction. Then I found the 1GiantMind app which helped a lot! I felt unparalleled relaxation and serenity from it. But then I tried some guided Mindfulness practice which I really liked because it let me use almost any thought as an object for meditation and Loving Kindness was also great. But I still felt the lack of a teacher so over a week ago I did lots of research and found an online Zen Sangha, so now I've been practicing Zazen which I'm struggling to get into, it's nature of just sitting and keeping the eye partly open. But I now miss the other kinds meditations, seems like I've formed unhealthy attachments to these techniques. But I always feel worried whether I'm sticking to the best one. Mantra meditation and mindfulness probably left me feeling the best, but I've heard mantra meditation is not that advanced? I'm generally more drawn to Buddhism and it doesn't seem to have any mantra meditation techniques.

    Does anyone here have this problem? If I had to choose just one meditation practice due to time constraints, what would be the best one for spiritual progress? Or do I just need to find the one that works for me and completely stick to it?

    Would love some thoughts from those in a similar boat or those who have been in a similar boat!

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    Being able to feel my pulse

    Posted: 18 Jun 2020 11:48 PM PDT

    So a couple years back during a dark time in my life. I was in school and was having a really bad day. When i got into a certain class I just sat down and refused to do anything. I tried to go to sleep but couldn't. Antways somehow these events led me to focusing on my hand, like alot. I imagined a small fire floating in my hand. And I felt it physically. Not like heat in my hand but a force. Almost as if someone was pressing on the palm of my hand from inside and out. Also I could feel a force inbetween my fingers, as if something was keeping them apart from one another (it reminded me of when you put 2 magnets together and the repel). I somehow did it throughout the entire hour class. When it first happened I thought it was a form of meditation. So whenever from that point i focused on my hand I felt the same feeling. A year or two ago tho when I did it. I fely my pulse. And I dont mean like when you can feel your hearbeat in your leg kind of thing. This was an intense feeling. A really really intense feeling. It felt as if I was sensing my veins and felt the blood coursing through them. To this day idk if this is a form of meditation. Can someone explain what I stumbled upon??

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    Is flow = meditation?

    Posted: 18 Jun 2020 05:30 PM PDT

    I have no experience whatsoever in meditation but one day when I was playing a tennis match my mind just randomly went blank and I played the best tennis I've ever played.

    It was scary at times because I thought I had a heat stroke or I was going to faint.

    Anyway, one of my friends who loves meditation told me it's somewhat like what he does.

    Just by curiosity, how do the two compare?

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    I fall asleep when I meditate

    Posted: 18 Jun 2020 11:27 PM PDT

    I sit down and meditate but still I am very close to falling asleep every time and my head does that thing where it bobs up and down, is this normal? If not any suggestions?

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    Strong emotions/flashbacks in meditation.

    Posted: 18 Jun 2020 01:40 PM PDT

    I'm very curious to see if this happens to anyone else. I have picked meditation back up after a year or so off. I use headspace but I also frequently just meditate unguided silently for 10-20 minutes. Very basic mindfulness meditation.

    However recently, unlike in the past, my meditation sessions suddenly bring in massive emotion. I will be having a perfectly normal day, sit down to meditate, and be inundated with sadness or anger or joy for no particular reason. I also get flashbacks to my childhood, something that happens very rarely - people, places, and details that I didn't even know I remembered.

    What could be causing this? I know how to deal with it in the moment, but I am very curious as to why it happens and what its implications are.

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    What is a meditation revelation like?

    Posted: 18 Jun 2020 10:25 PM PDT

    I'm fairly new to meditation but based on the the things I've read I believe it'll be very helpful to me. My basic understanding is that when you meditate you focus on your breath and try not to think about things. So what do people mean when they say the had revelations or uncovered answers to questions through meditation? Isn't a revelation achieved through thinking about a problem and finding a solution? Or do these revelations happen outside of meditation as a result of the practice or do they just pop into your head mid meditation spontaneously?

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    Zen Meditation

    Posted: 18 Jun 2020 09:53 PM PDT

    You should work on meditation most meticulously and carefully; don't take it easy.

    Those who do not have a really genuine aspiration for enlightenment do not realize the errors of their minds because their application of effort is not careful; even though from time to time they suppress minor thoughts, they are not aware of the major thoughts.

    Minor thoughts are thoughts that suddenly arise about what is before you. Major thoughts are thoughts such as greed, hostility, foolishness, false views, conceit, jealousy, name and fame, profit and support. When sitting in meditation, those whose wills are weak may keep back minor thoughts, but such evil thoughts as these will remain unawares in their minds—these are called major thoughts.

    Giving upthese major bad thoughts is called directly cutting off the root sources.

    Your light of wisdom is clear and bright of itself, but when obscured by false ideas you lose this, and therefore create illusions.

    - Daikaku

    What is freedom from thought? If you see all things without the mind being affected or attached, this is freedom from thought. Its function pervades everywhere, without being attached anywhere.

    Just purify the basic mind, having the six consciousnesses go out the six senses into the six fields of data without any defilement or mixup, coming and going freely, comprehensively functioning without stagnation. This is accomplishment of insight, freedom and liberation. This is called the practice of freedom from thought. If you do not think at all, you will cause thoughts to be stopped entirely; this is dogmatic bondage—this is called a biased view.

    - Huineng

    You all should first put an end to all involvements and lay to rest all concerns; do not remember or recollect anything at all, whether good or bad, mundane or transcendental. Do not engage in thought. Let go of body and mind; set them free.With mind like wood or stone, not explaining anything, mind not going anywhere, then the mind ground becomes like space, wherein the sun of insight naturally appears. It is as though the clouds had opened and the sun emerged.

    Just put an end to all fettering connections, and feelings of greed, hostility, craving, defilement and purity all come to an end. Unmoved in the face of inner desires and external influences, not choked up by perception and cognition, not confused by anything, naturally endowed with all virtues and the inconceivable use of all spiritual powers, this is someone who is free. In the presence of all things in the environment, to have a mind neither still nor disturbed, neither concentrated nor distracted, passing through all sound and form without lingering or obstruction, is called being a wayfarer.

    Not setting in motion good or evil, right or wrong, not clinging to a single thing, not rejecting a single thing, is called being a member of the great vehicle. Not bound by any good or evil, emptiness or existence, defilement or purity, doing or nondoing, mundane or transcendental, virtue or knowledge, is called enlightened wisdom.

    Once affirmation and negation, like and dislike, approval and disapproval, all various opinions and feelings come to an end and cannot bind you, then you are free wherever you may be; this is called a bodhisattva at the moment of inspiration immediately ascending to the stage of buddhahood.

    - Baizhang

    The mind of people of the Way is straightforward, without artificiality, without inclinations or aversions, without deceptive false consciousness. At all times seeing and hearing are normal. There are no further details. And they do not shut their eyes and block their ears; as long as feelings do not stick to things, that will do. The sages since high antiquity have only explained the problems of impurity; if you don't have so much misperception, subjective views, and conceptual habits, you are clear and calm as an autumn pond, pure and uncontrived, calm and unhindered.

    You should turn attention around by yourself to look within; other people do not know your understanding. Let people now just directly comprehend what does not understand— this is your mind, this is your Buddha. If you turn outward to gain some knowledge or some interpretation, and take that for the path of Zen, there is no connection. This is called bringing crap in, not taking crap out; it pollutes your mind field, so I say it is not the Way.

    Inwardly strive to develop the capacity of mindfulness, outwardly spread the virtue of not being contentious. Shed the world of sense objects to seek emancipation.

    If you want to study the Way by intensive meditation and make an immediate leap beyond expedient teachings, let your mind merge with the hidden harbor, investigate its subtleties, determine its most profound depths, and realize its true source. If there are people of middling ability who are as yet unable to transcend all at once, let them concentrate on the teaching, closely investigating the scriptures and scrupulously looking into the inner meaning.

    - Guishan

    The path of Zen values participation. What participation means is that it cannot be ordered by teachers and elders, it cannot be done for you by colleagues, it cannot be adulterated by external energies, it cannot be confined by outward form; it is only in the power of your own mind. Go right ahead boldly and fiercely like a great warrior with a single sword mounted on a lone horse, plunging into a million-man army to kill the commander. That would be outstanding, would it not?

    But if you think about whether it will be hard or easy, and worry about whether it is far or near, anxious about whether you will succeed or fail, then you can not even stand on our own, let alone participate in Zen.

    - Yuan-hsien

    Contrived thinking arises from intention.

    - Huinan

    In general, study of the Way requires application in action; don't just remain idle. Twenty-four hours a day, be as if you owed someone an enormous amount of money and are worried you may not be able to pay it all back. If you stay earnest like this, there is no worry you won't arrive. For this reason an ancient said "As long as the great task is not done, be as if you were mourning your parents." There's another simile: people practicing the Way are like chickens incubating eggs; the warmth must be continuous for them to develop. If there is any interruption in the warmth, they'll never hatch, even in ten years of incubation. Longya also said, "Practicing the Way is like drilling for fire; when you see smoke, you still can't stop. Only when a flame appears and starts burning do you succeed."

    If you want to attain intimacy, first of all don't seek. What is attained by seeking has already fallen into intellectual understanding. Indeed, this great treasury has always been clearly open and luminous; for beginningless ages it has been one's own root basis—all actions are completely beholden to its power.

    It is only a matter of stopping until not a single thought arises—this is penetrating through to liberation, not falling into senses and objects, not dwelling in ideas and imaginings.

    People who are determined to master the Way observe themselves and understand themselves twenty-four hours a day.

    - Yuanwu

    Instructions for everyday life and sitting. When sitting one does this, when getting up one keeps doing the same, it is done at all times trough mindfulness and inward awareness, meticulously and carefully, by one's own power trough one's own participation. The practice is done in your own mind. Giving up , avoiding, reducing gross mental objects untill mind is like wood or stone wherein the sun of insight naturally appears.

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    Mindful Eating/Meditation at Work

    Posted: 18 Jun 2020 12:54 PM PDT

    I've been trying to incorporate more meditation throughout my sometimes quite long work day. I've slowly started practicing mindful eating while I eat my lunch, which has been great but is a challenge for me!

    Anyone else practice mindful eating and have tips or experiences to share? Or other ways you sneak in practices on the job?

    :)

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    Overwhelming euphoric feeling whilst meditating, anyone else experience this?

    Posted: 18 Jun 2020 05:51 PM PDT

    Hi all, I've started practicing meditation and recently, during each session, I reach a point where I feel very euphoric and light headed, and this feeling gets more intense until I sometimes have to open my eyes and stop. The thing is though, I feel great afterwards and this didn't start happening until about a week ago, whilst still doing the same meditation. Have I progressed and reached a certain euphoric point in mindfulness?

    I do a counting meditation as I find it helps keep me focused. I inhale for 4 secs, hold for 4 secs, then exhale for 8 secs, and I'll repeat that cycle for about 20 minutes. But about halfway through I start to feel dizzy.

    Could it be my breathing technique that is making me feel light headed perhaps? Would really appreciate some tips on what to do if I'm doing it wrong :)

    Thanks

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