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    July 24, 2020

    Meditation: Meditation is literally saving my life.

    Meditation is literally saving my life.

    Posted: 23 Jul 2020 05:01 PM PDT

    I come from an alcoholic gene pool. Both my brothers woke the gene up early, in the early 20's. I lost one brother three years ago when he drank himself to death alone in a hotel room t the age of 59. I am now 60 and have been trying to stop drinking seriously for about 4 years. It's been difficult. The longest I went was thirty days. Started meditating about 5 weeks now at the pleading of my counselor. I am now 6 weeks sober and I feel completely different. No anxiety, calm, serene, happy, grateful, and without any desire to drink thus far. For the rest of my life I will drink the drug-free elixir of meditation. I cannot believe what it's done to me. Cheers all!

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    #200days meditation challenge in Mumbai

    Posted: 23 Jul 2020 04:17 AM PDT

    Im 32 ( Mumbai - India) currently pursuing the #200days meditation challenge. I started it in late feb, early March. The early days are honeymoon when 20min seems like eternity. Our city followed pure lockdown since 19/03 & even today (23/07) we are still in a lockdown scenario.

    This lockdown has been turmoil in many lives around me, i was blessed to start this journey sooner than the lockdown. The lockdown only got me bad - worst or horrific news around and about my country. There are some news that took me days to process like a close friend of mine who lost his mum due to COVID.

    Meditation acted as my coping mechanism in the beginning. I felt more calmer and things slowly got a lil easier for me to process. Since then I realised the true value of it and I have since been on this journey of meditation which brings me peace in times of comfort or in pain. Regular practice ( specific time ) helped me bring discipline in me during chaotic times. Discipline got me momentum and I started meditating for 30 minutes in May/ June and slowly to 40minutes in July.

    Though the situation is still not that great, meditation has been my medicine - my therapy and my principle. I'm currently on my 130th day approx, even 40 minutes seems like few seconds at times. I would highly recommend people to start their meditation (spiritual journey) with a time limit and a day (like a 90day) challenge.

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    Sooo many unexpected benefits

    Posted: 23 Jul 2020 12:06 PM PDT

    I come from a proper spiritual meditation family (dad sits for like 1.5 hours and grandfather used to sit for 3-4 hours straight!), but I never garnered interest towards this probably because I never realised how powerful it is, and was too much involved in the world. Started off about a month and a half ago, cause I was diagnosed with hypertension and parents told to just try giving it a shot once. Seriously regret not doing it earlier, it has helped me in sooo many ways, mainly brining peace and focus, making me calm, and obviously, bringing my hypertension down quite significantly to almost nil...but there are also other positive effects that can be felt but cannot be described, like it's there you can just feel it. I just hope I am able to continue this 🤞🏼

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    Answer to all of your problems

    Posted: 23 Jul 2020 11:57 PM PDT

    Here it is:

    Sit down and meditate. Just do it

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    I'm Starting To Dread Meditation

    Posted: 23 Jul 2020 12:49 PM PDT

    I used to be able to meditate everyday with no problem. Now it just seems like a chore. Something I have to get done before the end of the day. I meditate everyday and it feels like I'm burning out. I never feel like doing it. Maybe its getting boring? How do I keep meditating and actually WANT to do it.

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    Meditation has helped me quit MJ

    Posted: 23 Jul 2020 03:43 PM PDT

    Recently quit smoking MJ and just wanted to say meditation has helped a lot in terms of self-awareness and not letting withdrawal mood swings get the best of me.

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    Getting back into a relationship with meditation/binaural beats

    Posted: 23 Jul 2020 10:57 PM PDT

    About 5 years ago i was consistently mindfully meditating on a daily and consistent basis... over time i've fallen off. i definitely do it subconsciously but have been feeling a lot of distress lately and want to get back into some more intensified practice of mindfulness

    I was introduced to binaural beats recently and i have noticed that my physical body feels genuinely different after. Has anyone experienced the same? my arms and chest feel lighter and floatier. I've experienced this before just surprised at how quick and also intense it can feel. maybe it's just placebo but hey! i'm into it.

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    A fundamental mistake that I used to make while practicing meditation that caused a lot of pain

    Posted: 23 Jul 2020 05:15 AM PDT

    When I got started with meditation a couple of years ago, I used to really find it hard to sit and concentrate. Random thoughts used to come to my mind and some of them were extremely uncomfortable.

    So the first thing that came to mind was to try and stop thoughts willfully. Needless to say, that was a recipe for disaster. Fighting with thoughts led to me greater distress and irritation. Meditation was supposed to calm me, and exactly the opposite was happening. It was getting more and more restless, irritated, and angry ever day.

    We are so used to taking up things like a task "that needs to be done perfectly". The worst part is that we also start judging ourselves for not being able to meditate properly. I was treating meditation as a hard task that needs to be done efficiently. Now when I look back, I realize that I was falling into the same old trap due to the past conditioning. It's so fascinating what our minds are capable of.

    So I decided to create a video about this ( https://youtu.be/j5e6WwTpops ), where I talk about the common mistakes beginners make when starting meditation. I know a lot of you are much more experienced and knowledgable than me. Maybe, you guys can shed more light on this topic and help learn more.

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    How on earth do you just "stop thinking"?

    Posted: 24 Jul 2020 01:50 AM PDT

    After reading about it, I've concluded that my brain is really lacking in alpha waves. I actually don't have the ability to just stop. My mind is constantly occupied and I'm always fidgeting, which is how it's been my entire life. I really struggle to sleep sometimes as I just close my eyes and lay there thinking.

    So I decided I'd try some meditation, but that fell through when I couldn't even concentrate on not thinking. I found an article for "how to meditate when you can't meditate" and it said to just count to 10 but as soon as you think of anything, start again. I tried that last night and I found I couldn't get past one.

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    A Zen teaching for peace and happiness, ending chaos and suffering.

    Posted: 24 Jul 2020 01:49 AM PDT

    pics of the case : https://imgur.com/a/MpCyEdl

    Teaching case nr. 45 From The Book of Serenity:

    Four Sections of The Enlightenment Scripture

    Introduction: The presently forming public case is just based on the immediate present: the fundamental family style does not aim beyond the fundamental. If you forcibly set up divisions and foolishly expend effort, it's all drawing eyebrows for chaos, putting a handle on a bowl. How can you become peaceful?

    Case: The Scripture of Perfect Enlightenment says, "At all times do not produce delusive thoughts, also don't try to stop and annihilate deluded states of mind; in realms of false conception don't add knowledge, and don't find reality in no knowledge."

    Commentary: Guifeng, classifying this section, called it "the deluded mind suddenly attaining realization" and also named it "forgetting mind, entering awakening." I add the word 'no' to each of the four clauses, meaning, "not producing, not annihilating, not knowing, not distinguishing." These four lines everywhere are considered illnesses; here they become medicines. Now as for what everywhere is considered illness, not producing delusive thoughts--is this not 'burnt sprouts, ruined seed"? Not annihilating deluded states of mind--is this not 'losing your life while taking care of illness'? Not applying knowledge--is this not 'being temporarily absent, like a dead man'? Not finding reality--is this not 'presuming upon the enlightened nature, enshrouding true thusness'? Now tell me, what are the four medicines? It is necessary for Tiantong to concoct them and bring them:

    Verse:

    Magnificent, clearly outstanding:

    (If you go on investigating further, you'll have to say the words 'dull and inconspicuous.)

    serene, at ease.

    (Nose stuck up to the heavens.)

    Clamor pierces the head;

    (When the bed is narrow, lie down first.)

    Quiet is where to tread.

    (When the gruel is thin, sit down later.)

    Underfoot, the thread breaks, and I am free:

    (Walking freely to the land of the immortals.)

    The spot of mud on the nose is gone--you don't have to chop.

    (Both get a break.)

    'Don't budge' --

    (Already this is arbitrarily administering a disturbing measure.)

    On a thousand-year-old scrap of paper medicine's compounded.

    (There's great miraculous effect.)

    Commentary: When Huangbo first called on Baizhang, Baizhang said, "Magnificent, clearly outstanding--what did you come for?" Huangbo said, "Magnificent, clearly outstanding--not for anything else." Magnificent, outstanding, serene, at ease--these are all characteristics of a great man. In a forest of shields and spears, freely going directly through, in a thicket of brambles, going right on with open hands; no five-colored string under the feet, no crossroad barrier on the tongue, no trace of mud on the nose, on gold dust in the eyes--is this not a peaceful, happly life?

    Try taking Tiantong's three words 'do not budge' and substitute them for my four 'no's and then you will see that the one-word teaching cannot be completely written down even with an ocean of ink. Deshan said, "The whole canon is old paper for wiping filth" --this is because those who already comprehend fear to pierce oxihide; a prescription for compounding medicines on thousand-year-old paper is because those who don't yet understand unavoidably block their eyes. Cijiao said, "The Scripture of Complete Enlightenment and the Heroic March Scripture are my constant companions."
    From the World Honored One's demise up till 1220 has already been two thousand, one hundred and seventy years; is it just thousand-year-old paper? According to the Biographies of the Wizards, Ge You carved a wooden ram and rode up Sui Mountain on it: later he met Fu Zhong, who said, "If the strings under your feet aren't cut off, you won't be free." This happens to accord with Yongjia's "Let go of the gross elements, don't grasp: within the nature of quiescence, drink and eat as you may. All activities are impermanent, all is empty; this is the great complete awakening of the realized ones." Even so, there is still lacking the chant of 'how can we transcend?"

    From The Book Of Serenity , translated by Thomas Cleary, containing 100 Zen Teaching Stories.

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    Pretty upset with myself - Failing interviews .. No sleep ..

    Posted: 23 Jul 2020 10:00 PM PDT

    So about 5 months ago I gave multiple interviews and had this issues of not been able to sleep pretty much all night because of the anexity of interview room the next day. I tried my best around those nights to calm myself down with no luck and awake like an owl all night, tossing and turning on my bed, failing interviews one after the other because I was tred and sleepy for those 10 am in person panel interviews. I could sleep fine on most of the other nights, just not the night before the interview. I am otherwise quite sharp and good at my job but tends to fail the interview because of no sleep night before. It was crazy time as I failed interviews in about 5 different companies!!

    I then gave up looking for any job for 4 months during these 4 months I started doing meditation twice a day daily for abut an hour. My over all health and anxiety definitely went away and I have been feeling so much better for these 4 months, always aware about what goes on in my body and mind and able to calm it down. Meditation had a profound effect on my focus and mental piece and clarity in my mind.

    Yesterday I had first interview again after 4 months. I prepared really well for it BUT some how that feeling of anxiousness still creeped up a night before the interview, even though I did my best by doing meditation twice, not looking at computer or any screen or preparation for this interview by 7 pm. I was yawning, went on bed, was about to fell asleep but for some reason that anexity some how creeped up in my brain again and caused me not to sleep all night, tossing and turning again. I did my best to somehow sleep but all attempts failed. My interview went ok because I prepared really well so that's good.

    But I just don't know why I can't sleep a night before these crucial interviews. Without sleep I am a zombie the next day failing these interviews which are otherwise piece of cake for me. The fact this happened again after 4 months of practice makes me think I need to keep trying and look for tactics to somehow sleep.

    Do any of you have any recommendations for me, I got many more interview coming up and I am tired of myself not able to sleep the night before these big days.

    Thanks in advance!

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    Just felt my third eye

    Posted: 24 Jul 2020 01:43 AM PDT

    It feels like a sort of pressure right between my eyebrows.anyone else experience this?

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    what's that crackling noise ?

    Posted: 24 Jul 2020 01:30 AM PDT

    meditation tips?

    Posted: 23 Jul 2020 05:12 PM PDT

    i'm trying to get into meditation ( to help my anxiety) , i've tried before but i could never be able to actually clear my head and be focused on it. but i've heard so many stories of how successful meditation was for some people, so i'm deciding to give it another try.

    does anyone have any tips for starting meditation?

    and any video/ audio/ app recommendations ?

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    Meditation routine

    Posted: 24 Jul 2020 12:38 AM PDT

    What's the best routine for meditation. Should I body scan or do I skip it and just feel aware then meditate ?

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    Trouble with breathing

    Posted: 23 Jul 2020 02:14 PM PDT

    Looking for some help or resources for breathing correctly. I've had a very difficult time finding good information on the subject. Most everything I read is breath through the nose and place your hand on your diaphragm.

    The problem I've been having for years is that it just feels like I'm getting even more tense when I focus on the breath. In turn it hurts my mediations because I focus on the breath and can't relax or release the tension that I have.

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    Meditation music, meditation music to relax the body and mind, sleep mus...

    Posted: 23 Jul 2020 08:08 PM PDT

    Seeing a skull

    Posted: 23 Jul 2020 11:38 PM PDT

    I was in deep meditation today when I started seeing a flowing behind my eyelids, it was very vague but I saw what looked to be a skull behind the flowing, has anybody else experienced this or anything like it? What does it mean, if anything? I am very new to meditation and am also wondering if visions like this happen often

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    Does anyone know the scientific reason behind the pauses or gaps between breaths ?

    Posted: 23 Jul 2020 08:41 AM PDT

    I've been really trying to understand the purpose behind the pauses in between the breaths. Does anyone know ?

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    3 states of consciousness

    Posted: 23 Jul 2020 11:02 PM PDT

    Human beings routinely experience three states of consciousness:

    Waking

    Dreaming

    Deep sleep.

    When the inner faculty is in the waking state of consciousness, it is aware of the physical body and is involved with the outside objective world. In the dreaming state of consciousness, it is aware of the inner dream world, but is not aware of the physical body. In the deep sleep state of consciousness, the inner faculty is not functioning at all and is not aware of anything. In this state, dualities such as pleasure and pain, good and bad, etc., are not experienced. There is no experience of stress, anxiety, guilt, greed, envy, jealousy, anger, etc. The only experience in this state of unity is peace and bliss. This is why deep sleep or a "good night's sleep" feels so good.

    The deep inner Self is always witnessing, or watching, the activity of the inner faculty. The experience of watching one's thoughts or daydreams occurs when the deep inner Self witnesses the activity of the waking state. During the dreaming state, this is experienced as watching one's dreams. During the deep sleep state, however, the inner faculty is asleep and not functioning on the level of duality. This is experienced as the peace and bliss of unity, and upon waking one feels refreshed from a good night's sleep.

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    Negative effects of meditation

    Posted: 23 Jul 2020 10:07 PM PDT

    Beware and be aware.

    Negative effects of #meditation if catharsis not involved.-

    Any meditation method that doesn't involve catharsis-

    One may experience delusional, irrational, or paranormal thoughts well as a change in executive function.

    One may turn negative towards everything in life with profound pessimistic approach.

    The way one sees, smells, hears, and tastes could be altered for worse due to meditation.

    One may have increased sensitivity to smell, light and noise and a distortion in time and space.This may lead to paranoia.

    Loss of interest in doing things, laziness, frustration, a mindset that is unproductive and unwilling.

    One may feel demotivated and stolid akin to the effects of depression.

    It can lead to a deluge of very negative feelings that can be hard to handle.

    One may feel depressed panic, anxiety, fear, depression, and grief.

    Probable physical side effects -

    Pain, backache, headaches, fatigue, weakness, pressure, involuntary movements, gastrointestinal problems and dizziness.

    It might change the sense of self affecting all other relationships around. It definitely changes other's view about the meditator.

    Possible loss of sense of basic self, and a loss of ownership.

    Plus,the boundaries blurring between the meditator and the rest of the world.

    Possible social impairment, or a difficulty behaving normally around others, having trouble integrating back into society.

    A hassling issue.

    It definitely makes one indifferent to the people, things and incidents around him.

    It makes one feel aloof in the beginning.

    In absence of proper guidance, a new out of the world experience in meditation may lead one to develop suicidal instincts.

    Meditation melts the stiffness and makes one effeminate without affecting ting manliness and virility.

    Take a look at Swami Jeevan (@rightbreathingg): https://twitter.com/rightbreathingg?s=09

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    Dealing with negative views on meditation

    Posted: 23 Jul 2020 01:59 PM PDT

    https://youtu.be/T0Sbs0YOGk8

    Someone posted this video a while ago and it intrigued me very much. The video is on the Christian perspective of why meditation and eastern religous practices are bad and demonic. I would love some responses and insight into this very negative view on meditation!! Cheers to you beautiful people of reddit

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    Amazing Guided Sleep Meditation!

    Posted: 23 Jul 2020 09:07 PM PDT

    If you have trouble getting asleep this guided meditation is for you!

    - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2OHMB8OFeA

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    Satori experience??

    Posted: 23 Jul 2020 08:48 PM PDT
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