Why Meditation?
*Tough Thoughts, Tough Discipline to support us to realise our fullest humanhood.
* Meditational practices created
- Early in India
- 5th to 12th Century in Syrian &Jordanian deserts
- 10th Century in Japan in medieval European Monasteries
- 18th & 19th Century Poland and Russia.
- Primarily created by Mystics
- Mysticism is search for and encounter of the individual himself and the totality that makes up the universe.
- To transcend the painful and negative aspects of everyday life and live with a serenity, an inner peace, a joy and a capacity to enjoy.
- Mystical coaching schools
* Zen, Hesychasum, Yoga, Sufi, Christian, Hindu, Jain Mysticism
- Tuning and coaching the mind as an athlete tunes and train his body is the main aim of Meditation.
- Higher Efficiency in everyday life
- Comprehension of One more view of reality.
How A meditation Feels- 15 Minutes ?
* Just count your breaths 1...2...3...4...
* And start off again 1...2...3...4.....
* Thoughts keeps on thinking rather than simply counting the breaths
* Thoughts is an unbroken horse that would go any where except where you wanted it to go
- Saint Teresa of Avila
* A ship on which sailors mutinied and locked the captain and the navigator beneath the cabin.
- Plato
* The wind turns a ship
From its course upon the water
The wandering winds of the senses
Cast man's mind adrift
And turn his superior judgment from its courses
When a man can still his senses
I call him illuminated - Bhagavad Gita
Psychological Effects of Meditation :
1. The attainment of yet another way of perceiving 2. Relating to reality and a higher efficiency and enthusiasm 1. Bring a powerful serenity and inner peace that stay stable even in the face of much adversity. 2. Strengthens the will, purpose, aim oriented behavior, ability to bar distractions and facilitates the personality reorganization, endless growth to actual maturity. 3. Increased levels of competence and confidence 4. Deautomatization of perception and behavior.
Varieties of Meditation :
Four Paths Of Meditation
1. The path through the intellect (Jnana Yoga in East), HASIDISM in Hebrew 2. The path through the emotions (Bhakti Yoga) 3. The route of the body 4. The path of action (Karma Yoga)
The Path By means of The Intellect (JNANA YOGA) :
1. Use intellect to go beyond the intellect, the will, direct the believed approach to transcend themselves.
* Werner Heisenlury:
The fully unexpected realisation that a consistent persuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the incredibly basis of physics.
2. Student maches an intellectual understanding of the two realities - two ways of perceiving and relating to the globe - by a series of coaching (meditation) deepen the understanding.
3. Very same time strengthens his personality structure by discipline.
4. These three parts of the intellectual path combine to force his understanding of the two ways of relating to reality to come to be a total orgasmic comprehension.
5. In Bhagavad Gita this if first path taught by Krishna to Arjuna.
6. Christian Mysticism - Richard of St.Victor brought the path of intellect.
7. Habad Hasidism - Hebrew tradition HABAD - HOKMA (wisdom) BINAH (intelligence) DAAT (Know-how).
The Path By means of The Emotions (BHAKTI YOGA) :
1. Most widely followed of the mystical paths 2. Christian Monastics spends years practicing his devotions ceaselessly operating at his ability to enjoy, to really feel, to accept, expand and express his 'Caritas' his caring is on this route. 3. So is the student of Bhakti Yoga in the East 4. Sufi Poet Rumi - The astrolabe of mysteries of God is enjoy. 5. Baal Shem Tov ( The founder of Hasidism)
o Insists on significance of enjoy and feeling in approaching 1.
6. This path concentrates on meditations that loosen the feelings and expand the ability to care and to enjoy. 7. The significantly more cost-free, untroubled and complete human being is, the significantly more he has more than come the stunting of his growth due to his cultural coaching and early experiences, the significantly more he will naturally enjoy and the superior he will relate to other individuals. 8. Understanding to enjoy self, Other people and god and understanding to full care for 1 leads to full caring for all.
The Route Of The Body :
1. Learns to be aware of one's body and bodily movements and to heighten this awareness through practice till this practice fills the field of consciousness to the exclusion of anything else. 2. Eastern Forms :HATHA YOGA
TAI CHAI and DERVISH Dances
3. On the complete absorption in one's bodily integration and bodily movement, the meditator is brought slowly and gradually to carrying out just 1 thing at a time. 4. This path integrates the numerous bodily aspects with every other and with the personality in distinct.
The Path Of Action (KARMA YOGA):
1. Consists of understanding how to 'be' and to perceive and relate to the globe during the efficiency of a distinct kind skill 2. East
Archery, Flower Arrangement
Aikido and Karate in Zen Tradition
Rug weaving in Sufi tradition
Singing and prayer in Christian Tradition
3. In the course of efficiency of a certain skill, the extended, tough practice disciplines and strengthens the personality. 4. The pure concentration on carrying out what you are carrying out and being aware of nothing else - gradually forced in to consciousness.
How Do We Meditate :
1. The meditation of contemplation Advertise on this website Powered By AdBrite
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2. The meditation of breath counting 3. The meditation of the bubble 4. The meditation of the veda kind 5. The mantra meditation 6. The meditation of 'Who Am I '
The Meditation Of Contemplation :
1. One POINTING: Eastern Schools to look at some thing actively, dynamically, alertly but with out words. 2. CONTEMPLATION: is a structured meditation of the outer way. Take an object, hold it comfortable eye range and really feel cost-free to move closer or farther and just look at it. 3. When searching again and again your will be thinking about some thing else or translating your perception in to words - so keep coming back to searching. 4. Patanjali, an Eastern sage known as this strategy 'Fixed Attention' and described it as 'Binding the mind staff to a spot". 5. Zen people today call MAYKO the illusions that we project on reality as an aid to escaping from the directions. 6. In the words of Bhagavad Gita - to hold the senses and imagination in check and to keep the mind concentrated upon its object. 7. Objects- flower, paper match, brass knobs, cross, a fire, jewel 8. ten minute periods for the first 2 weeks on a day-to-day basis, 15029 minutes for 2-3 months.
The Meditation Of Breath Counting :
1. Zen strategy - structured meditation of outer way 2. Doing just 1 thing as complete by and totally as doable 3. Just be fullyaware of counting the exhalations of the breath 4. Thoughts, feelings, impressions, sensory perceptions are a wandering away from directions 5. Count 'one' for the first exhalation, 'and' for the next exhalation, 'two' for the second exhalation 'and' for the next exhalations and so forth 6. Close eyes - 15' at a time day-to-day for a couple of weeks 7. To 30 minutes for two months.
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Alex Simring