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Mindfulness In Plain English: Meditation Manual
I’ve recently started meditating, and came across this excellent introduction and manual to meditation, Mindfulness in Plain English which I discovered via Reddit. It is a superb introduction to...
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Using One Tenth of Your Mind
I like this meditation quote, seems like a great way to visualize the chatter: "When the mind is nowhere it is everywhere. When it occupies one tenth, it is absent in the other nine tenths." ~Takuan—...
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Ego & Meditation Benefits
Another good quote for meditators. "Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit." ~Chogyam Trungpa #quotes— Zen and Tao (@ZENandTAO) August 14,...
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Practice
"It is better to practice a little than to talk a lot." ~Muso Kokushi #quotes— Zen and Tao (@ZENandTAO) August 19, 2012 Filed under: Meditation Tagged: mediatation, practice, quotes
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What To Reject
"The foolish reject what they see. The wise reject what they think." ~Zen Proverbs— Zen Essentials (@ZenEssentials) August 19, 2012 Filed under: Meditation Tagged: meditation, quotes
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Meditation Tips From A Beginner
I’ve been having some discussions with a friend who’s been wanting to get into meditation, and I thought I’d share the following email I sent him. I know in other areas of my life where I am no longer...
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Meditation with Advanced Yoga Practices Techniques: The First 30 Days
I started meditating about a year ago. I was pretty consistent for about 4-5 months and then kind of lost the momentum. I picked it back up in December and have been doing it pretty much daily since...
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The Physicality of Spirituality
My experimentation with meditation keeps bringing up this question: why there is such a major focus on physicality as the basis of what are constantly referred to as spiritual practices, as opposed to...
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The Prodigal Mind
Looking back over my past year of twice-daily meditation, I had a lot of erroneous preconceived notions when I first started. Many of these seem to be pretty common. One of the biggest misconceptions...
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Meditation: One Year
So it’s been about a year since I started doing regular, twice daily meditation sits. I’ve been meaning to post much more on this process than I have — but just like any sit is a good sit in...
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Upgrading Your Mental Operating System
This lecture that Gary Weber gave for a Buddhist Geeks conference was extremely inspiring and informational to me. I like his non-nonsense, direct experience, scientific approach to the process of...
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Yögå: Is Denmark the Origin of Yoga Asanas?
Yoga is commonly associated erroneously with only the poses or postures, called “asanas” in Sanskrit. In actuality, yoga is more of a system of which the asanas are but one part. And a lesser one at...
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The Mental Matrix
Inspired by my recent binge-reading over at David Cain's superb blog, Raptitude, I've been practicing mindfulness as a new companion to my regular meditation practice. Quite soon into the practice, I...
View ArticleThe Zen Of Fixing Mini-Blinds
If you ever try to deep clean your mini blinds, as a bonus you will also learn how to repair one of the slats. It will be one near the top, of course. But as an added bonus, it will also help you reach...
View ArticleMeditation Technique: Virtual Reality
Here’s a simple way to cultivate the state of mind that meditation techniques are designed to help you achieve: pretend the environment around you is actually a virtual reality simulation. Years ago, I...
View Article3 Signs That Your Meditation Sits Are Going Well
Nothing much seems to be happening Your mind wanders constantly, and your thoughts keep taking your attention away from the object of focus (breath, etc.) Nothing “mystical” is happening If any of the...
View ArticleMeditation Analogy: The River Of Thoughts
I was talking to some people I’d just met while on a hike, and the conversation made it’s way to meditation. That tends to happen if you’re talking with me. I was trying to find a simple analogy for...
View ArticleMeditation Is Like That Feeling You Get When Traveling Solo, All The Time
You know that excellent feeling you get when you’re traveling solo, and you’e on the first full day of the trip after the journey to get to your first destination? You know how you realize, “Wait a...
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Inspired by my recent binge-reading over at David Cain's superb blog, Raptitude, I've been practicing mindfulness as a new companion to my regular meditation practice. Quite soon into the practice, I...
View ArticleThe Zen Of Fixing Mini-Blinds
If you ever try to deep clean your mini blinds, as a bonus you will also learn how to repair one of the slats. It will be one near the top, of course. But as an added bonus, it will also help you reach...
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