Meditation Introduction
December 11th, 2005
How to meditate: Bring your attention back to your breath. Repeat as necessary.
Discussed exercise from Eckhart Tolle to show the energy/aliveness underneath experience. Showed that energy as the oneness of being.
Mentioned that five minutes of meditation a day is all we need to get started down a very important road of growth.
Our mind is capable of opening our focus to many things at the same time.
Discussed real life applications for meditation and presence. Use it to work with anger, sadness, physical pain, etc.
Meditation has two qualities. One is where you sit in the stillness of presence. This is where true joy comes from. This is the experience of now. No judgement, etc. The other state is when the mind is busy. This may not be as pleasurable, but this is where we learn. These are the workout reps for the mind. The is where we grow. Notice you are lost in thought and bring your attention back to the breath.
Mentioned Pema Chodron’s quote about the fact that if we knew where our pain came from, we would meditate like our hair was on fire.
Referenced: Eckhart Tolle, Pema Chodron
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