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The following is one of the most profound exercises you can do and we’d like you all to try it for at least one day. You may find that it is so revealing and gratifying for you that you do it more and more. The Buddha indicated that this exercise was one of the key steps toward enlightenment. Even the Dalai Lama had to practice this, in a more intense fashion, and for a prolonged period of time, but it is a time-honored meditation and it does provide great results! READ MORE »
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Meditation is recognised as a way to relax and reduce stress. Vipassana meditation teaches people to accept things as they are, and to recognise that everything changes.
Life is filled with work, leisure, television, music, advertisements, commitments and deadlines. In the 21st century, each minute is filled with flashing sights and surround sound. Often, people don’t take time to analyse reactions or body sensations and experiences. Stress and anxiety builds and the individual may not realise what’s happening. People get angry, depressed, intoxicated, and hyperactive. People impede on others’ harmony with blind passion and ego, affecting their vitality. Imagine a unique ten days in which none of this is normal, ten days where you cannot communicate with anyone and must practice ten hours of vipassana meditation daily. READ MORE »
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Any of us have at one time or another found the toll of living in the modern world hard to bear. Stress, depression and disillusionment are some of the diseases of modern times that leave us yearning for a solution, a cure, so to speak. More and more people are turning to meditation as they fail to find the answer through worldly paths.
Meditation is found in some form or other in all major religious traditions. Even those who are not religious use it to focus the mind, to hone it, so that it works better. In Buddhism, meditation is the integral to the eight-fold path to enlightenment. One trains one’s mind so that it can see the four-point Supreme Truth that forms the core of Buddha’s teachings: suffering, what causes it, the end of suffering, and the path to that end. Even if you are not interested in Buddhism,
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Mind is the forerunner of all (evil) conditions.
Mind is their chief, and they are mind-made.
If, with an impure mind, one speaks or acts,
Then suffering follows one
Even as the cart wheel follows the hoof of the ox.Mind is the forerunner of all (good) conditions.
Mind is their chief, and they are mind-made.
If, with a pure mind, one speaks or acts,
Then happiness follows one
Like a never-departing shadow.
These words, which are the opening lines of the Dhammapada, were spoken by Gotama Buddha 2500 years ago. They illustrate the central theme of Buddhist teaching, the human mind.
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Meditation in Buddhist traditionsWhile there are some similar meditative practices — such as breath meditation and various recollections (anussati) — that are used across Buddhist schools, there is also significant diversity. In the Theravāda tradition alone, there are over fifty methods for developing mindfulness and forty for developing concentration, while in the Tibetan tradition there are thousands of visualization meditations.[4] Most classical and contemporary Buddhist meditation guides are school specific.[5] Only a few teachers attempt to synthesize, crystallize and categorize practices from multiple Buddhist traditions.
[edit] In early traditionThe earliest tradition of Buddhist practice is preserved in the nikāya/āgamas, and is adhered to by the Theravāda lineage. It was also the focus of the other now-extinct early Buddhist schools, and has been incorporated to greater and lesser degrees into the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and many East Asian Mahāyāna traditions.
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Buddha Meditation
The Basics of Buddhist Meditation
Dr. C. George Boeree
Shippensburg University
Buddhism began by encouraging its practitioners to engage in smrti (sati) or mindfulness, that is, developing a full consciousness of all about you and within you — whether seated in a special posture, or simply going about one’s life. This is the kind of meditation that Buddha himself engaged in under the bodhi tree, and is referred to in the seventh step of the eightfold path.
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