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- Finally grasped the concept that the “watcher” is not *me*
- Came Across this Amazing poem by Alan Watts
- I had a profound experience while practicing mindfulness meditation in prison.
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- BBC Article - negative impact of too much meditation???
- Unable to visualize in meditation
- During my practice, I found it hard to breath naturally and focus on my breath because I couldn’t stop thinking about breathing and ended up trying to control my breath which is very unnatural and distracting. Any advice on how to have a better meditation practice?
- So I do have anxiety and I try to meditate focusing on breath and yoga but I always field real weird after words like spaced out and just kinda numb. Any advice
- Found this beautiful quote by Ichiro Kishimi, Walk away from the noise.
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- Thinking about letting life go on autopilot
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- disscociation/Brain fog/ADD making it hard to meditate
- Object vs Mindless State
- New ‘Buddhist’ belittling his wife..
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- Question about equanimity of sensations & mindfulness
- I need help with deep stomach breathing. I'm feeling a bit of pain.
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| Finally grasped the concept that the “watcher” is not *me* Posted: 07 Feb 2021 08:56 PM PST So much has guided me to this point - it feels like an incredibly trippy realization. That the being watching the arising thoughts is not me in any meaningful sense of the word. It has no gender, preferences, or history. It is only now, and it is just a branch of the universal, one consciousness. This probably made exactly zero sense to anyone else but would be curious to hear about similar experiences! [link] [comments] |
| Came Across this Amazing poem by Alan Watts Posted: 07 Feb 2021 06:07 AM PST The stars in their courses have no destination; The trains of events will arrive at no station; The inmost and the ultimate self of us all Is dancing on nothing and having a ball. So with a chat for chit and with a tat for tit, This will be that, and that will be it! ---------*- Let go .... Or be dragged! [link] [comments] |
| I had a profound experience while practicing mindfulness meditation in prison. Posted: 07 Feb 2021 01:00 PM PST During a short 4 month stint in prison I practiced mindfulness meditation in my cell during our lockdown hours nearly everyday. I practiced intermittent fasting and refrained from eating sugar and decreased my bread intake to 2 sandwiches a day. Also, I did a shitload of press-ups, pull-ups and calisthenics. As I progressed with the mindfulness meditation I was able to still my mind for longer periods. One day, on about the third month of my practice I had what seemed to me to be a profound experience. It's like I was looking on the inside of my body except rather then seeing organs I beheld a vast void of darkness (i.e. I could sense a great amount of empty space around me or within me). Suddenly, what appeared to be a lotus that was of a silvery grey appearance (like metal) was there and it looked very big. It had hundreds of pointy petals and a bright yellow oval shaped light protruding from the middle of it. I don't know if it was a lotus but it had the same structure of an average flower with pointy petals. It was turning counter clockwise and was on about a 40 degree angle from where I was viewing it. It was almost like I was floating around it yet it was still turning very slowly. As I began to pay attention to it I felt myself moving out of the experience and back into what I call reality. I opened my eyes and there I was sitting back on my bed in my jail cell. Since then I have come to appreciate and be drawn to the concept of stillness in the mind. I don't understand to this day the significance of my short lived vision/experience but never in my entire life have I experienced something like this. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Feb 2021 06:16 PM PST Day never truly ends, the sun simply shines on different parts of the Earth. Night never truly ends, the dark emptiness that engulfs parts of the planet simply moves on. The sun appears to circle the Earth, when truly it is the Earth that circles the sun. Everything is as it appears to be, and at the same time isn't. Everything is an illusion, and at the same time isn't. Free the mind from all judgements, and the truth will be laid bare. [link] [comments] |
| BBC Article - negative impact of too much meditation??? Posted: 07 Feb 2021 08:59 PM PST Just finished reading this article; I've probably read 20+ books on meditation and mindfulness in the last year, listen to podcasts on the subject 2-3 times a week and try to meditate at least once a day. Not once have I heard anyone talk about potential issues with meditation. Personally I've had nothing but wonderful results, and enjoy the practice immensely. Is this just journalism trying to find and generate noise for the sake of it or is there a real potential risk? I mean; you can actually die from drinking too much water but no one suggests that being hydrated is something we really need to be careful of.... Interested in the communities thoughts. [link] [comments] |
| Unable to visualize in meditation Posted: 07 Feb 2021 10:02 PM PST I really want to do meditation and get the benefits to improve my life, but every meditation I come across requires me to visualize something or the other during meditation and here is my problem! I cannot visualize!!! None at all ! I sit with my eyes close and try to visualize the imagery being said by the instructor and my mind is blank, black darkness is all there is, no visuals come at all no matter how much I try. I have now got this belief about me that I cannot visualize. The belief itself is acting as a deterrent from trying out meditation anymore. What do I do? How do I visualize? Need help please. [link] [comments] |
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| Found this beautiful quote by Ichiro Kishimi, Walk away from the noise. Posted: 08 Feb 2021 12:29 AM PST Your unhappiness cannot be blamed on your past or your environment. And it isn't that you lack competence. You just lack courage. One might say you are lacking in the courage to be happy. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 08 Feb 2021 12:14 AM PST You must take conscious control of your brain if you want to be successful.Every situation that you face in your life will lead to certain neurons firing.Having some stress in your life is natural but too much is bad for you.Let's Go!!!https ://bit .ly/3q3Cq6u remove the spaces. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Feb 2021 10:42 AM PST Meditation is a systematic approach to a mental activity that everyone does. Siddhartha was not a buddhist. His teachings are not a religion. He was taught meditation, he didn't discover or invent it. [link] [comments] |
| Thinking about letting life go on autopilot Posted: 07 Feb 2021 02:53 PM PST Lately I have been stressing about getting an internship within my career and already faced 3 rejections and countless no responses to my applications. I'm set to graduate spring next year and I need to get an internship before then. so I can secure a job upon graduation. Not to mention I have been struggling mentally for the past year (I started to think reality was all in my head.) After some time spent meditating I thought about just letting life go on autopilot. If I get an internship offer for the interview I gave last week great, if not then whatever maybe I can get a different internship or stay in school longer. I just want to stop the gut wrenching feeling I get when I try to fall asleep at night. The feeling that I have a pit in my stomach or a weird sense of pressure in my head/throat area that accompanies my dreadful thoughts of the future is getting to be too much to handle. I'm just gonna go with the flow from now on and leave my life on autopilot. I feel a strange sense of calm after declaring this but at the same time I hope this isn't depression slowly creeping up on me. [link] [comments] |
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| disscociation/Brain fog/ADD making it hard to meditate Posted: 07 Feb 2021 04:18 PM PST Hi, so after struggling with this in my meditation for a while (and in life in general for years), I decided to post here to hear some similar experiences and maybe get some advice. I've been meditating on and off for about a year now. I try to focus on the breath, mostly the rising of my belly. It's just that, the sensation seems to not be strong enough. It's like, I am maybe 30% in the "body-sensation" and 70% in my head. Now, every advice I read says something along the line of "acknowledge your thoughts - don't push them away - just gently go back to your sensation". The thing is - the stuff that's going on in my head are no concrete thoughts. I feel that there is much going on in there, but mostly I can't make it "visible", and I surely couldn't describe it to anyone. The best description would be a kind of underlying noise, but even that is not very exact. It seems like it is undermining any attempt I make to be truly conscious. A few things about myself: I am male, 32, and have been in psychotherapy for years for depression, anxiety, lack of motivation and severe problems concentrating (I can't work and I live on welfare), but I am not on any medication at the moment. I've recently undergone a few tests for ADD, as that was something I thought could be wrong with me. Apparently it is difficult to determine if my cognitive impairments stem from ADD or longtime depression (pseudo dementia came to mind) and my therapist has agreed to let me try Ritalin (Methylphenidat) to see if it helps my concentration and thus, my mood in general. There's some health checks my doctor wants me to do first, but in two or three weeks I think I'll try this rather divisive drug and see if it can clear my foggy mind a bit. Also last year in june I would have flown to southeast-asia to partake in a weeklong meditation retreat, but the friggin virus made that impossible. I thought that maybe there I would be able to somehow learn to meditate "for real". I'm not so sure anymore. Maybe it was a good thing I had to cancel it, because I might have walked even more frustrated or disillusioned out of it? If you read through all this mess: much wow and thank you:) My questions to you all would be: - Do you expereience similar "brain-fog/disscociative states" and have you found a way to cope with it in your meditation practice and in life in general? - Are you diagnosed with ad(h)d and able to meditate, or did you maybe even find a way in that meditation helped your "cognitive performance/wellbeing"? - Have you tried drugs, especially stimulants, with meditation, and how did it effect you? Any input helps. Thank you! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Feb 2021 08:47 PM PST I am reading a book named the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. However I am bit confused on the instructions of obtaining such state. For instance, it teaches that meditation is without thought and that we must transcend our very own mind/thoughts. However, the book goes on to explain that the first step of obtaining Samadhi is focusing on one object and nothing else. Can someone help clarify the instructions of obtaining Samadhi? Is the object medication simply an exercise for beginners to focus on concentration? But if yes, how can an individual focus on well.. nothing (the mindless state)? [link] [comments] |
| New ‘Buddhist’ belittling his wife.. Posted: 07 Feb 2021 07:44 AM PST Dear meditation community - I know I've read some interesting material on this phenomenon and I'm hoping someone can direct me to a source - maybe Jack Kornfield? My friend's husband started exploring Buddhism a few weeks ago and since then has been (basically) using pieces of what he's reading to "instruct" the people around him. This week, he started belittling my friend - telling her she doesn't love herself, eat healthfully enough etc. I've come across this behavior before when people first start exploring a spiritual path - instead of having the insight and courage to apply the principles to themselves, they focus on the people around them. Does anyone know of any great quotes or short readings on this subject? Thanks for your help [link] [comments] |
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| Question about equanimity of sensations & mindfulness Posted: 08 Feb 2021 12:19 AM PST Hi All, I am still a relative beginner in meditation with around 6 months of practice under the belt so far. I'm using the waking up app, and have also begun reading TMI. I have 2 questions that I would love some insight on: When sensations arise in consciousness, I am meant to observe them with equanimity, as in, they are not good nor bad. Question is, how am I meant to observe pain in my stomach, which might very well develop into violent diarrhoea (extreme example, but you get my point) with complete neutrality? This seems illogical - certain things are just plain bad!? My other question relates to mindfulness. When being in the moment, we want to avoid drifting to the past, or pondering about the future. However, I do actually need to think of the future at times in order to plan my life and make preparations (eg think about moving apartments). In terms of the past, I feel there can be value in reviewing the past in order to shape current beahviour and decision-making based on the mistakes or wrong turns I might have made back then? How else am I to improve or learn and improve? Is the idea maybe to not "get lost" in pondering past & future? Eckhart Tolle speaks about this too, but I found 'the power of now' lacking in pragmatic guidance and steps to take. I would appreciate your input. Have a great day! [link] [comments] |
| I need help with deep stomach breathing. I'm feeling a bit of pain. Posted: 07 Feb 2021 11:57 PM PST From what I've read, stomach breathing aka diaphragmatic breathing is the healthiest and most suited breathing technique for meditation. I'm not sure if I automatically do stomach breathing throughout my day. So I don't know if I just need more practice doing it... Whenever I start meditating, I "obviously " start concentrating on my breathing. It helps me focus and keep my thoughts away. The part that I'm actually struggling with is the DEEP breathing. I sit in a good and natural upright position, so that's not the issue. But when I concentrate on my deep breaths, I can feel my stomach is starting to burn a bit. It might be because I'm... tensing up? I find it very easy to breathe into my stomach, I've practiced it quite a bit. So I'm not tensing up, desperately trying to force the air to go towards the stomach. I can also feel like breathing IN is easy and doesn't feel uncomfortable, but breathing OUT feels weird, like I'm an already empty balloon that you try to squeeze air out of. It feels like I inhale a lot of air and then I SHOULD be exhaling a lot, but there's almost nothing there for me to exhale. It's so strange. As a result of this I feel this weird and very uncomfortable tension when i breathe OUT. So my stomach starts burning a bit, and I think so does my lower/middle back a bit, since that's all connected. (I always get lower back pain instead of stomach cramps when I'm on my period) How DEEP do you all breathe? How much more air are you inhaling than normal? Or does deep only mean slow and not just a lot ? It would be life changing for me if someone could help me figure out what I'm doing wrong or maybe show me a good video or anything really. Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Feb 2021 07:32 PM PST I meditate probably every other day actively for focus and relaxation. As well as wim hof occasionally to spice things up. I'm a very realistic person and don't believe in spirituality stuff or do drugs. One thing that I've always wanted is have an understanding of higher power gods or beings something of that sort. I've read others have used meditation to reach those points, but I don't necessarily believe they had a real experience as drugs may have been used or their strong beliefs in their spirituality vs reality to put it nicely. Those who have been in my shoes how have u used meditation to break that higher power barrier. [link] [comments] |
| Is it possible to experience expanded awareness through meditation? Posted: 07 Feb 2021 11:02 PM PST I recently came across a couple youtube channels with meditators that acquired the ability to see in a "360°" type fashion. I'm wondering if anyone here has experienced this, and if so, what type of practices or exercises can bring someone there? For Example: kailasa https://youtu.be/M6ikTaQeDOE Frank yang: https://youtu.be/DQjKepEv4og [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 07 Feb 2021 02:11 PM PST I realize that we have this void in all of us, and I'm not sure if it's in the same place for everyone, but I feel it in the lower chest/upper stomach area. We fill it with so much, with just about anything. Nicotine, weed, other drugs, alcohol, TV, social media, money, sex, a partner, friends, daydreaming, or even just thoughts in general. A wise man once said don't fill the void, feel the void. I'm starting to understand at a deeper level. Because if that void isn't filled with anything (and we can try to fill it with just about ANYTHING, even hopefulness), I feel this deep sense of sadness accompanied with other negative emotions. Maybe posting this is a way for me to try to fill it through external validation. Regardless, we have to feel it, because until we do, life will not be fulfilling nor will it be meaningful. We will just subconciously be on survival mode, even if we have everything we "want". Sit with your void. Make it a habit. Notice how you fill it, because it seems that on the other side of the void is freedom. [link] [comments] |
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