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Meditation Instruction - After You Meditate - Quotations by Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz
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| Buddhist Monk 2005-11-14, 12:59 am |
| Organized Quotations on Meditation Instruction, Buddhism and Mysticism.
By Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz
Main Page:
http://www.ramaquotes.com/index.html
After You Meditate:
http://www.ramaquotes.com/html/after_you_meditate.html
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After meditation, it is a good idea to bow and offer your meditation to
god, to that stillness and perfection that is existence. Feel that you
are giving your meditation away.
At the end of meditation period we always bow and we touch our head to
the floor and say "Buddha's name be praised."
After the meditation session you have to be a little bit careful. If
you start to think a lot of thoughts and become very active, you can
prevent some of the meditative awareness from coming into your mind.
Learn not to judge your meditation. Just meditate, do your best, set a
minimum period of time and meditate.
How do you end a meditation session? It's nice to chant a mantra
again. Maybe repeat it a few times. It seals the meditation. Do your
best and then just give it to eternity.
Don't judge your meditations. Don't rate them. The physical mind
cannot tell how well you did. As long as you are sitting there trying,
something will happen.
The force that drives the green fuse, as Dylan Thomas said, cannot be
understood. So self-discovery is to accept your daily meditation, to
observe yourself meditating and not be concerned with the results.
The only bad meditation is when you don't meditate.
- Rama
www.ramaquotes.com
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| Crowfoot 2005-11-14, 12:59 am |
| In article <1131941576.576514.237860@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"Buddhist Monk" <learn_to_meditate@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Organized Quotations on Meditation Instruction, Buddhism and Mysticism.
>
> By Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz
>
> Main Page:
>
> http://www.ramaquotes.com/index.html
>
> After You Meditate:
>
> http://www.ramaquotes.com/html/after_you_meditate.html
>
> *******************************************************************
>
> After meditation, it is a good idea to bow and offer your meditation to
> god, to that stillness and perfection that is existence. Feel that you
> are giving your meditation away.
>
> At the end of meditation period we always bow and we touch our head to
> the floor and say "Buddha's name be praised."
>
> After the meditation session you have to be a little bit careful. If
> you start to think a lot of thoughts and become very active, you can
> prevent some of the meditative awareness from coming into your mind.
>
> Learn not to judge your meditation. Just meditate, do your best, set a
> minimum period of time and meditate.
>
> How do you end a meditation session? It's nice to chant a mantra
> again. Maybe repeat it a few times. It seals the meditation. Do your
> best and then just give it to eternity.
>
> Don't judge your meditations. Don't rate them. The physical mind
> cannot tell how well you did. As long as you are sitting there trying,
> something will happen.
>
> The force that drives the green fuse, as Dylan Thomas said, cannot be
> understood. So self-discovery is to accept your daily meditation, to
> observe yourself meditating and not be concerned with the results.
>
> The only bad meditation is when you don't meditate.
>
> - Rama
>
> www.ramaquotes.com
My recipe (bearing in mind that I do not claim to
be "enlightened" nor a "Zen master" nor a, the, any
Dalai or other Lama, nor am I able to surf the
universe and save it from a terrible fate, a la Lenz
according to him anyway):
Sit (on a chair, if your body doesn't do various
lotus/semi-lotus etc. positions on the floor), eyes
half-lidded and gaze on the floor or the wall, back
reasonably straight. Count your breaths, 1-10 and
over again, silently. Let thoughts, ideas, images
float through consiousness without getting hung
up on them one way or the other, or for that matter
upon "enlightenment" or what feels like it. When
it feels right to stop, stop. Get up and go about your
daily business. Meditate again later; twice a day
is good. I usually only manage once. That's it.
IMO, the trouble with Zen is the simplicity at the
heart of it. You have to dress it up in all kinds of fancy
nonsense to be able to sell it for enough $ to be worth
the effort.
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| Curly H. Wade 2005-11-14, 5:58 pm |
| I don't think Castaneda's Don Juan worshipped idols by acknowledging
some places on the earth are easier to meditate than others...nor did
Milarepa who went into the caves of Tibet.
What do you mean?
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