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Meditation Practice
How often should we practice meditation? When you feel a lack of peace, return to center. When mind controls you, return to center. When you don’t know what you feel or what to do, return to center. How often are these things for you? That is how often you should look within. Perhaps twice, morning…
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What is Meditation?
What exactly is meditation? There are many definitions. Meditation isn’t an action. That is the tricky thing. Meditation is a settling. A disengagement from action. The techniques are for stilling the mind. We seek to meditate not so much to find a new level of awareness. It isn’t a special state. It’s a primal state.…
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A Look at Morality
I have been accused of being amoral because I can view action in that way, mine and others. But if you judge, can you also be compassionate? Mercy matters, but can you show mercy if your actions or those of others are somehow about your person? Cause and effect. Energy is a dance. We consider…
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Relationship with Religion
Can people have a healthy relationship with religion? Yes, they can. The word religion comes from the latin word “religio” meaning a body of practices. Religion is like meditation. It’s the social aspect of factionalism. It is false identification (to use a Buddhist concept) that is toxic. The interfaith movements are a powerful force for…
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Your Life
Meditation is not something you can achieve. Meditation is when you sit and allow yourself to be where you are, and maybe not do anything in that moment. Even if your mind is spinning, just realizing that your mind is spinning. That is meditation. You did meditate. The experience of being where you are, and…
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Do You Know Yourself?
I don’t mean for today to be an introductory talk on meditation. I have already done that work before. I hope to get to the essence of the meditative practice and experience. Is everyone already familiar with meditation in one form or another? When you hear people talking about meditation, the conversation often winds up…
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We Are Meant to be Active Components
How do you know when you are thinking? To know that you are thinking there has to be a you and then there has to be thinking, something the you does. If thinking is something the you does, then it shouldn’t happen unless you do it. Is this not so? I can gauge how well I…
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You Are The World
How much of your life seems autonomous? How much of your life experience seems to happen on it’s own? A lot more than I previously thought. Science would say it all does. It’s a very popular view in the mainstream scientific thinking. The more I notice, the less it seems to be me. I feel less…
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You Experience You
What things become associated with what other things has nothing to do with those supposedly independent things. There are no independent things. Even you are not an independent thing. What gets associated with the next thing depends on your personal attentional behaviour. Attentional behaviour is also called intention. My attentional behaviour will differ from yours.…
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Striking the Target of your Brain
Attention is like breathing. If you want to understand the landscape, get to know it better before you try something purposeful, then watch what it does on it’s own. Watch where your thoughts and feelings go on their own. If you do this you will see why your life and the world as you know…
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Activity Occurs Through You
So any questions or comments about today’s topic of Meditation? Did I cover it adequately? Yes, very much. I liked the part about making your brain like a target and being aware of it without looking directly at it, and that’s meditation. You aren’t your brain or any other single part of your body. And…
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Exploring Sensory Experience
First off, what is meditation as you understand it? The practice of focusing in the present. Witnessing with clarity in continual interactions. A quiet, peaceful and inward process. All true. What is the purpose of meditation? A variety of purposes. Sometimes I just do it to get myself back on a relatively even “keel.” To…
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Accessing Fluid Intelligence
Do you know how you think? Can you describe to me how a thought happens? I don’t think I can describe it, no. I know I can’t or at least can’t verbalize it. I see something and make an association. It usually just seems to ‘pop’ up. I go through levels of “re-activeness.” Most of…
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Full Immersion in Consciousness
I’ve heard that self talk goes away when one is enlightened. I’ve noticed that it goes away when I’m watching TV or a movie. What is going on there? Well, science has another word for the processes I have been describing, and they are discovering more and more about how it happens, why it does…
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Advocate for the Devil
Is being enlightened having everything you contact hold your interest? Ah, excellent question. It is. Compassion is having everything hold your interest. Artists feel compassion for their art. They describe their creative works as their children, even begin to imagine their art has a desired destiny, place and state of being. Artists typically experience some…
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Break Your Rules of Thought
In general, creative meditation is learning to break your own rules of thought in a conscious, self directed way, and the easiest way to do this may be in active mindfulness, active meditation. What’s something routine you do without thinking? I will use an example. Myself, I dislike cooking. I want to do it, both…
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Home Fu
So shall we describe the ultimate creative meditation? With each activity undertaken mindfully, with growing depth of experience in this mindful activity, new associations can be formed. If you combine mindful cooking with mindful cleaning and household upkeep, you will arrive at a way of being at home. This way can come to be like…
Category: Meditation
Mediation is a rather foundational practice for getting to know the mind. And by mind I mean the whole thing, including the environment it arises in.
Meditation can also be an invaluable guide in seeing, and allowing informed choices about your life’s manifestation. In meditation there can be silence, and yet revelation occurs. The original students of Christ speak of going into silence. Which funny how that gets ignored by orthodox Christianity, and yet the church would paint a picture of the apostles lecturing and praying and doing nothing else. I suspect their prayer practices differed. They were likely more akin to mantra meditation or recitation of the sutras than modern ‘please god to do them favours‘.
“Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.” Buddha