An Ode to Morning Meditation
May 3rd, 2012
April 23rd, 2012
Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It’s a way of entering into the quiet that’s already there buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.
Deepak Chopra (via nirvikalpa)
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April 12th, 2012
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April 10th, 2012
April 3rd, 2012
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March 28th, 2012
March 24th, 2012
Awareness is observation without choice, condemnation, or justification. Awareness is silent observation from which there arises understanding without the experiencer and the experienced. In this awareness, which is passive, the problem or the cause is given an opportunity to unfold itself and so give its full significance. In awareness there is no end in view to be gained, and there is no becoming, the ‘me’ and the ‘mine’ not being given the continuity.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti (via yogaprivatelessons)
March 22nd, 2012
You don’t have to make thoughts go away in order to enter stillness.
Just pause, look deeply, and you will see that thoughts depart on their own.
Just pause, look deeply, and you will see that thoughts depart on their own.
Eric from Wisdom Heart
March 9th, 2012
Trying to control thought is like trying to lasso the wind. The harder you try, the more frustrated you become.
So, when thoughts blow around - you’re not doing something wrong. You can’t lasso the wind. Why waste your energy there. The realization of stillness doesn’t come through controlling your mind, your life, the world.
And thinking spiritual thoughts (whatever that means to you) doesn’t help either. Thoughts fighting thoughts - just intensifies the wind. The practice of meditation offers a different path. A way of relating to all patterns - including the control pattern - with loving awareness.
Eric from Wisdom Heart
March 8th, 2012
March 1st, 2012
Morning Meditation
February 28th, 2012
Post-Meditation Technique: Extending Gratitude
Many lives are lived on a moment to moment basis revolving around survival. You see it today in third world countries or the most impoverished stratum of a society.
Free time is a luxury, a moment’s rest can be a luxury. If you go back thousands of years, perhaps around the time of the agricultural revolution, you will see that humanity had to focus on survival. Food and protection, procreation and parenting, humanity was little more than the human animal.
Therefore, ask yourself this: How much had to happen for an individual to have the privilege of sitting for a meditation? How much evolution, how much revolution, how much invention, discovery, philosophy, fate, experimentation, understating, had to happen?
When you come out of meditation, don’t just jump back into the world. Take a few moments and breathe as you open your eyes. Extend your thanks and appreciation to your ancestors, to your teachers, to the universe, for providing and leading you to the pinnacle activity of existence.
What are the odds that a human in modern society turns away from the endlessly available diversions to look inward and learn what exactly it is that they are diverting?
When you can appreciate the opportunity to meditate and understand what a blessing it is on behalf of the cosmos, it transforms the activity into a prayer of its own. It isn’t a chore, a rejection of the ego, a wriggling away from our mortal bonds. It is a rejoicing of how far we have come to be able to begin to recognize what we really are.
When you feel gratitude, it keeps things in perspective.
Namaste, sangha.
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February 16th, 2012
—Dalai Lama
“As you breathe in, cherish yourself. As you breathe out, cherish all beings.”photo : Meditation by Yang Tee Mon
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January 19th, 2012
“Any experience that brings you into contact with the silent level of awareness can be called meditation.”
-Deepak Chopra
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January 18th, 2012
Meditation is the key to aligning yourself to the flow of the universe
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