on Meditation
Meditation can have a myraid of meanings. From physical relaxation, to concentration, to absorbtion, to awareness, to contemplation, to silencing the mind, to doing nothing, to being present, or it could be refering to a particular type of practice or way of being. Some of the benefits are listed below in the section called '100 Benefits of Meditation'.
I would like to explain several things eventually such as what meditation is, what the benefits are, how to do it, why to do it, the different types / forms and what not. It will take and this page will be a work in progress. Perhaps I can put updates on the front page.
Some of the meditations will include: Yoga Nidra, Faces of Spirit, Big Mind, I AM, Witnessing, States, Quadrants, AQAL, Concentration, Awareness, Dynamic, Flow Based, Active, Tapas / Dopamine
I would like to explain several things eventually such as what meditation is, what the benefits are, how to do it, why to do it, the different types / forms and what not. It will take and this page will be a work in progress. Perhaps I can put updates on the front page.
Some of the meditations will include: Yoga Nidra, Faces of Spirit, Big Mind, I AM, Witnessing, States, Quadrants, AQAL, Concentration, Awareness, Dynamic, Flow Based, Active, Tapas / Dopamine
100 Benefits of Meditation
The benefits of meditation are plentiful. Here are some of awesome ones:
heightened / peak states, emotional stability / awareness, faster cognitive development (and overall development?), willpower, becoming aware of being aware and the ever-present subjective conscious witnessing awareness. In other words working to transcend our currently limited identity by consistently objectifying what we normally identify with leaving us eventually with the seer and the seen until that last separation disolves or so its been said.
heightened / peak states, emotional stability / awareness, faster cognitive development (and overall development?), willpower, becoming aware of being aware and the ever-present subjective conscious witnessing awareness. In other words working to transcend our currently limited identity by consistently objectifying what we normally identify with leaving us eventually with the seer and the seen until that last separation disolves or so its been said.
Meditation as a Practice to lighten laziness
Here is my theory; that sitting down to do 'one thing' or 'no-thing' in meditation for a prolonged period of time is easy cause your not doing much, but it still has a accumulating effect on dopamine in the brain. Since dopamine is supposedly "the motivating chemical" the more of it that builds the more you want to do something, or in the case of meditation anything else. So when your meditating and you want to scratch your nose but dont you get boosts of energy. Since your also resisting wasting your energy on scratching your nose you are also learning how to focus that energy on other things.
This is why meditation can be looked at as a tapa (or practice of purifying laziness)
This is why meditation can be looked at as a tapa (or practice of purifying laziness)
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quotations on meditation
"Meditation is not a means to an end; there is no end, no arrival; it is a movement in time and out of time. Every system, method, binds thought to time, but choiceless awareness of every thought and feeling, understanding of their motives, their mechanism, allowing them to blossom, is the beginning of meditation. When thought and feeling flourish and die, meditation is the movement beyond time. In this movement there is ecstasy; in complete emptiness there is love, and with love there is destruction and creation."
- Krishnamurti
"If you observe your own mind in what you call meditation, you will see that there is always a division, a contradiction between the thinker and the thought. As long as there is a thinker apart from thought, meditation is merely a ceaseless effort to overcome this contradiction."
- Krishnamurti
"Meditation is a single lesson of awareness, of no-thought, of spontaneity, of being total in your action, alert, aware. It is not a technique, it is a knack. Either you get it or you don't." - Osho
"This is the process of concentrated meditation; but a more strenuous method is the fixing of the whole mind in concentration on the essence of the idea only, so as to reach not the thought-knowledge or the psychological experience of the subject, but the very essence of the thing behind the idea. In this process thought ceases and passes into the absorbed or ecstatic contemplation of the object or by a merging into it in an inner Samadhi." - Sri Aurobindo
The methods advised by all these people have a startling resemblance to one another. They recommend "virtue" (of various kinds), solitude, absence of excitement, moderation in diet, and finally a practice which some call prayer and some call meditation. (The former four may turn out on examination to be merely conditions favourable to the last.) - Aleister Crowley
Aha! by Crowley
Wikpedia on Raja(ashtanga) Yoga:
Eight limbs of Ashtanga Yoga
The eight limbs of Ashtanga Yoga are:
Eight limbs of Ashtanga Yoga
The eight limbs of Ashtanga Yoga are:
- Yama – code of conduct, self-restraint
- Niyama – religious observances, commitments to practice, such as study and devotion
- Āsana – integration of mind and body through physical activity
- Pranayama – regulation of breath leading to integration of mind and body
- Pratyahara – abstraction of the senses, withdrawal of the senses of perception from their objects
- Dharana – concentration, one-pointedness of mind
- Dhyana – meditation (quiet activity that leads to samadhi)
- Samādhi – the quiet state of blissful awareness, superconscious(?) state. Attained when yogi constantly sees Paramatma in his (jivaatma) heart.