• Breaking News

    Wednesday, December 16, 2020

    Home Unlabelled Meditation: It’s all a test.

    Meditation: It’s all a test.

    December 16, 2020

    Meditation: It’s all a test.

    It’s all a test.

    Posted: 15 Dec 2020 08:06 PM PST

    All the wandering thoughts, worries, distractions.

    It's all a test about how present you can be in the midst of "the noise".

    Meditation cannot work if you do not learn how to discipline your focus. Instead of seeing the noise as a nuisance, see them as their true nature, opportunities to grow in presence and consciousness. The universe, god, ephemeral energy, whatever you call "it", giving you "training" to prepare you for a higher level of consciousness.

    It is a blessing in disguise. In Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism there is the idea of duality. The difficulty of meditating is painful because it is worth it.

    You cannot appreciate the silence, the now, unless you have been tormented with anxiety, overthinking, and thoughts of the PAST and FUTURE (which, by the way only occur now).

    Rejoice if your meditation is extremely difficult now. Your ability to be deeply present and aware is directly mirrored in intensity by your tendency to be distracted. As above, so below. The roots of the trees and the branches reaching to the sky.

    submitted by /u/SpectroLight
    [link] [comments]

    How easily I abandon myself

    Posted: 15 Dec 2020 03:06 AM PST

    How easily I abandon myself.

    For family, for lovers, for friends, for enemies.

    For plans and ideas and expectations.

    For ideas about plans and expectations.

    For hunger and discomfort.

    For comfort and safety and love.

    For ambitions and goals.

    For God, or ideas of Her.

    For peace and meditation.

    For enlightenment.

    How easily I abandon myself.

    submitted by /u/flezk
    [link] [comments]

    Don’t meditate to get better at meditating, meditate to get better at LIFE❤️

    Posted: 15 Dec 2020 09:35 PM PST

    Meditating with one eye open

    Posted: 15 Dec 2020 03:10 PM PST

    Just wanted to share a tip which I found very helpful for focusing during practice .I often find myself getting either very sleepy or just not able to focus at all , due to a very active mental chatter and keeping one eye open helped very much , especially with focus . You can switch attention from whatever you are seeing with an open eye to a focus on darkness which your closed eye is "seeing" .I found hope someone will find this useful <3

    submitted by /u/Suuusi
    [link] [comments]

    What's the longest single sit you've had?

    Posted: 16 Dec 2020 02:50 AM PST

    I meditated the other day for an hour straight - no audio, just a timer. I expected it would be difficult, but it turned out to be really nice.

    I know duration isn't the goal, and it's kind of antithetical to seek a "high score", but what's the longest single sit you've attempted?

    submitted by /u/_jcrossley
    [link] [comments]

    Will I be okay? Super deep meditation

    Posted: 15 Dec 2020 10:47 PM PST

    Okay, so about an hour ago, I did some yoga. It was very light yoga, but I was feeling good. Afterwards, I sat down and began to meditate. I don't know what the meditation started out as, but I got to this crazy point that I can only describe as similar to a DMT experience.

    I noticed a ringing in my ears, which is normal if I meditate or focus on it, but it got really loud. It was incredibly intense. The space behind my eyelids began to expand and I began to feel as though I was in another space. This was very, very intense and I was nervous. My only experience with anything of the sort is when I pull back from a DMT pipe and exhale before blasting off.

    I've always thought that an experience like that could only be achieved through drugs or death, and I was nervous to die, like my soul was ready to dissolve, but I was still gripping onto my ego, afraid that I might not come back or that I might come back into a reality completely different than when I left it.

    Has anyone had an experience like this? I am very curious and think I can achieve that level of meditation or go even deeper, but I want to make sure someone else had experienced that without dying or completely dissolving and not returning. I want to know whether that state is a safe place where I'll be able to return from.

    submitted by /u/tarzanflowerchil
    [link] [comments]

    meditation + marijuana ?

    Posted: 15 Dec 2020 02:31 PM PST

    i've noticed it's easier for me to slip into deep meditation under the influence of marijuana. by focusing on my breath and observing the patterns i see behind my closed eyelids it's easier for me to experience without conscious thought. these closed eye patterns started to become more noticeable after a DMT experience i had. i used to be a heavy user of marijuana, now i only partake on occasion. still, i can't help but feel as though i'm cheating. my most successful meditations have all been under the influence. should i stop entirely? would appreciate some advice. thanks in advance :-)

    submitted by /u/noodleman_420
    [link] [comments]

    What is that bright flash of light?

    Posted: 16 Dec 2020 03:03 AM PST

    Hey guys, I'm a beginner, I was meditating then suddenly a white flash of light covered my vision for a split second, I opened my eyes right after the flash of light like my body did it, not me. It's like my body's reflexes opened my eyes and my heart was beating fast for a few seconds. My question is what is that light? Should I keep on closing my eyes? Is it good? Is it bad?

    I'm a beginner.

    submitted by /u/ZoiZois
    [link] [comments]

    Quick survey about awakening

    Posted: 15 Dec 2020 08:23 PM PST

    Short survey of anyone feels like taking it. Thank you.

    https://forms.gle/85ByQCLyR5RaYDrZ8

    submitted by /u/Material-Air
    [link] [comments]

    Will this help

    Posted: 16 Dec 2020 02:07 AM PST

    On a binge to fix myself and I'm a very angry person with anger issues and a lot of its built up. I want to better myself and have a calm mind but never meditated before. Will this help and what should I do to start meditation

    submitted by /u/Infectedfrag
    [link] [comments]

    For those in self doubt

    Posted: 15 Dec 2020 09:49 AM PST

    We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment - Alan Watts

    submitted by /u/Cricky92
    [link] [comments]

    Meeting Higher Self

    Posted: 15 Dec 2020 03:35 PM PST

    I am writing this because I have an experienced to share for others. I was meditating, (usually I meditate for 20 minutes at once) and decided that when the 20 minutes was up, I want to keep going. So I went onto YouTube, and searched for a higher self guided meditation. I do not do higher self guided meditations often, usually third eye ones. Anyway, I sat there for the 10 minutes the meditation lasted, and when it was a few moments from finishing, I opened my eyes. There it was. A very tall and bold figure, appeared on the closet of my room, (it was pitch black and I was facing the closet). It had an outline, with patters of blue, purple, red and green, but no features. I shut my eyes again, then reopened them. It was there, this time holding it's hand out to me. I just sat there, in shock. I had goosebumps, and kind of felt "exposed". I have never dread tears of joy, but then I was, in it's wonderful presence.

    submitted by /u/shundoo
    [link] [comments]

    How can conviction not lead to volition?

    Posted: 15 Dec 2020 02:37 PM PST

    I'm tired of not changing things I know I can, both within myself and in others for the benefit of all. I know there's something important I am supposed to do. I feel it pulling me and I don't know how to respond. So I sit, or move, or lye there, with tears filling my eyes. It's not depression as much as it is a deep longing to fulfill some action or purpose. I'm lost in this feeling lately and nothing else seems to matter. It's like work (both personal and for a living) are falling flat. There's no real substance to any of it. It's all meaningless without the clarity of the meaningful. Where are our realized beings? Must this be faced without them? Maharaji please come to me in form.... 🙏

    submitted by /u/MLTSaveThePrincess
    [link] [comments]

    777 stay safe and positive����

    Posted: 15 Dec 2020 06:21 PM PST

    .. just did a quick video about December 21 2020 the shift is happening right now .. time to keep our vibrations high 🚀✨ tell me what you think about it ✨ all love 💯 https://youtu.be/A9onrCqSYAA

    submitted by /u/Kiinglouiee
    [link] [comments]

    “It’s okay not to be okay” – 2020 in 6 words!

    Posted: 15 Dec 2020 11:35 PM PST

    Just thinking of all the effects the coronavirus pandemic has had on our lives is exhausting, as is the daily drone of trying to keep going even as it feels as if the world is crumbling. It's okay not to be okay right now and to just do your best to get through this truly unprecedented time. Here's my latest article of what 2020 was supposed to be like in my life, and how it is ending up becoming something else: https://kaushiksridhar.com/2020/12/10/itsokaynottobeokay/

    submitted by /u/kaushiksridhar83
    [link] [comments]

    Why are the majority of meditators men?

    Posted: 15 Dec 2020 11:21 PM PST

    Mindfulness community Plum Village needs your help

    Posted: 15 Dec 2020 11:06 PM PST

    I'm not a representative of Plum Village - I just want to share their message and ask for financial support especially in these challenging times. This is the official donation form, and this is their website where you can read up more about the community and its service. Thank you!

    And now their message:

    Dear friend,

    We are so very grateful to each of you who have helped sustain the Plum Village monastics and practice centers since the start of the pandemic in March. Please know you have our deepest gratitude for your support this year. Our monastic brothers and sisters are always there for us, and we have come together this year to care for them. Together, we are all the continuation of Thay's lifelong work.

    With our monasteries still closed, we need to continue to help our monastic community. We want to ensure that our teachers are cared for, and that the practice centers can be maintained so they can re-open when the time comes.

    We know that the monastics' teachings are like a compass guiding the way. We need that compass in good and in difficult times

    For me, the practice was a compass during a very difficult year. The year had brought so many hardships: the uncertainty of health issues following the loss of a baby, constant medical testing to determine if chemotherapy was needed, and the loss of a good friend to cancer. It seemed everything that could go wrong was. I grew disillusioned by the notion of hope but still returned to the cushion, invited the bell, and kept breathing.

    Sometimes our life experience is like this; sometimes our breath is like this. I would tell myself this each day as I grew slower from illness and more out of breath during my walk up the hill to the meditation hall. Through all of this I realized that even in these difficult moments, difficult years, there is beauty all around us in the present moment. The crisp morning air, birds taking flight through an amber sky, and flowers covered in dew are all an invitation to return to the present moment. They are all a reminder that moment-to-moment awareness is the foundation of healing and transformation. Even in despair, there can be joy, and in vulnerability there is strength. It brings to mind one of Thay's teachings on mountain/solid in which he said:

    "When you look at the tree during the storm you can see that the top of the tree is not solid. You can only see the tiny branches and a number of leaves on the top of the tree swaying back and forth under the effect of the wind. You have the impression that the tree is very vulnerable but if you look down to see the big branches and the trunk of the tree and also if you see that the tree is strongly rooted in the ground. The impression that the tree is vulnerable will vanish. You see that the tree is much more solid than it looks at the top. We, the human body, the human person are like that too.

    If you feel agitated, not solid, vulnerable, breakable and then you practice this in order to get solid again. The solidity, the stability of the body will help bring about the stability of the mind and therefore sit in a stable position and practice breathing in and out, you become more stable in your mind. Breathing in I see myself as a mountain, breathing out I feel solid."

    Thay's teachings helped me find a path forward through his gentle and poetic words. The simplicity of his teachings made me realize that if I can do nothing else, I can do this. My heart felt at home. Now I feel held in knowing that the practice can sustain us all if we can awaken to the present moment.

    Like you, I have been profoundly transformed by the teachings and how the miracle of mindfulness has unfolded in my life. Will you join me in offering an end of year gift in support of our monastic community.

    You may have read over the past year about the financial situation of our monasteries. The centers in Europe and overseas used to have two main sources of income: retreat fees and donations. With the monasteries being closed, they've lost the income from retreat fees. Now they are almost entirely dependent on our generosity for even their basic needs. But aware of the importance of supporting and nourishing our collective practice in these challenging times, our monastics will continue to share their teachings with you online.

    On average globally, € 650 a month (€20/day) provides essentials like food, housing, utilities, taxes, etc. for one monk or nun. We currently have around 600 monastics living at 10 monasteries around the world. If the monasteries have to be closed for the first half of 2021 -- and depending on the availability of a vaccine distributed around the world -- the need from January through June will be about € 2 million.

    Thank you, dear friend, for your practice, your generosity, and your loving presence. May you know peace and joy in this moment.

    submitted by /u/InWisdomITrust
    [link] [comments]

    Joint pops and clicks

    Posted: 15 Dec 2020 05:02 PM PST

    I consistently get joint clicks in my spine about ten minutes in and long after. After about an hour my hips experience a pleasant pain and slowly build up to a big pop. (They kinda feel like a bunch of giant lead legos slowly being move around and assembled/disassembled in different ways. The main spine pops sorta sound like ping pong balls being dropped on a table. Will it harm my practice to chase down/embrace the big pops? Any idea why this is happening?

    submitted by /u/FerrousFir
    [link] [comments]

    21 days of abundance. *Highly recommend *

    Posted: 15 Dec 2020 07:04 PM PST

    I have always wanted to meditate for long term but need a little push. I think going through 21 days of abundance has truly been experience for me and works as good stepping stone for anyone who wants to try meditating for the first time. If anyone wants to know my experience just PM.

    submitted by /u/abdul_bino
    [link] [comments]

    Today I took a step to overcome my challenges

    Posted: 15 Dec 2020 03:28 PM PST

    I've been an on/off again meditator for a few years now. I've seen great benefit from meditation in the past but I've been easily discouraged from sitting regularly. I have narcolepsy and I regularly struggle staying awake while meditating, even while sitting in a good upright posture.

    Today I sat for 20 minutes while looking at a candle and I didn't doze off even once! I'm sure there will be good and bad days ahead but I feel very encouraged by my experience today. I'm looking forward to more (hopefully wide awake!) meditations.

    You all have been a great encouragement for me. Thank you so much.

    P. S. if any fellow narcoleptics/sleepy people have any meditation advice feel free to drop a tip!

    submitted by /u/beepsack
    [link] [comments]

    Can somebody explain this to me

    Posted: 15 Dec 2020 11:49 AM PST

    Hello everyone

    I've been meditating for about 2 weeks now and when I meditate I usually lay flat on my bed.

    So today, I experience something that I haven't experience before. 15 minutes through meditation, I felt a pulling sensation to the left side of my chest. I tried to brush it aside but my heart was beating rapidly and and then it scared me beacuse I thought I was going to fall, which made me open my eyes. Any explanation on what's the cause of this? And what should I try to do?

    submitted by /u/kylekUZz
    [link] [comments]

    Looking for a meditation that can soften me as a person

    Posted: 15 Dec 2020 11:33 AM PST

    Hello, I find myself sometimes to be very snappy and impatient sometimes (ADHD). I've been meditating for around 3 years now. I'd like a course of a specific type of meditation than can soften me as a person.

    I've done loving kindness before which I really enjoy, but it does feel forced sometimes. I'd like to be a calmer person all around. Please no abstract answers about what softness and meditation is. I'm kind of just looking for a course or a specific meditation that could help

    Thanks for any info

    submitted by /u/triggercut93
    [link] [comments]

    Im looking for accountability partner for a 21 day meditation challenge

    Posted: 15 Dec 2020 01:47 PM PST

    We do daily check ins Like 5 minutes per day Im going for 20 minutes per day🙏🙂

    submitted by /u/alirezah_1377
    [link] [comments]

    Keep seeing demons when Visualizing

    Posted: 15 Dec 2020 06:51 PM PST

    How do I stop this? I am sick of not being able to visualize anything, Its not scary its just very annoying. Is this evil eye by any chance?

    submitted by /u/AndreJKH97
    [link] [comments]
    Read more
    at

    No comments:

    Post a Comment