11-3 How to Make Meditation Joyful: 2
You can make of the place where you meditate a simple paradise, with one flower, one stick of incense, one candle, ... You can make of the place where you meditate a simple paradise, with your favorite flower, one stick of incense, one lamp, one photograph of an enlightened master, or one statue of a […]
11-2 How to Make Meditation Joyful: 1
There are so many ways of making the approach to meditation as joyful as possible. You can find the music that most exalts you and use it to open your heart and mind. Sometimes, when you are in a low mood, you can play your favorite music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV-ufeczf7I&list=PLG59GFmZzsi6y0rppKahVNKdTocWEQizP&index=38&pp=gAQBiAQB Sometimes we also use this method. While […]
11-1 Meditation Requires Inspiration and Creativity
No matter what you do, you should have inspiration. Inspiration and creativity are so important. Don't be rigid and inflexible. What I've taught you is just a method, while the method needs you to flexibly learn through practice and then master it. If you truly master it, it becomes the right method. What I've taught […]
10-5 The Real Miracle of Meditation Is a Subtle Transformation
All too often people come to meditation in the hope of extraordinary results, like visions, lights, or some supernatural miracle. When no such thing occurs, they feel extremely disappointed. But the real miracle of meditation is more ordinary and much more useful. It is a subtle transformation, and this transformation happens not only in your […]
10-4 Meditate and Work Without Attachment
I like the Zen story in which the disciple asked his master: "Master, how do you put enlightenment into action? How do you practice it in everyday life?" By eating and by sleeping," replied the master. "But Master, everybody sleeps and everybody eats." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9PWuxxRs0o&list=PLG59GFmZzsi6y0rppKahVNKdTocWEQizP&index=35&pp=gAQBiAQB "But not everybody eats when they eat, and not everybody sleeps […]
10-3 Experiencing the Illusory Nature of Everything
The best way to experience the illusory nature of things is through visual consciousness. When you close your eyes, you don't see anything and therefore nothing seems to exist; when you open your eyes, everything appears immediately. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCmHFBNK6l4&list=PLG59GFmZzsi6y0rppKahVNKdTocWEQizP&index=34&pp=gAQBiAQB Hence, what you see is actually generated by your visual consciousness. Why is it that when our […]
10-2 Integrating Meditation Into Daily Life
The method that our teacher teaches us is as follows: Suppose you are going to work, when you wake up in the morning, you should first bring up mindfulness, and then brush your teeth and wash your face. Before you drive out, take a minute or two to cut off your wandering thoughts, bring up […]
10-1 Integrating Meditation Into Daily Life
I have found that modern spiritual practitioners lack the tips of how to integrate their meditation practice with everyday life. I cannot say it strongly enough: to integrate meditation in action is the whole ground and point and purpose of meditation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kugyuy1wrFE&list=PLG59GFmZzsi6y0rppKahVNKdTocWEQizP&index=32&pp=gAQBiAQB That is, to apply meditation in everyday life. The violence and stress, the […]
9-3 How to Practice Living Meditation?
Meditation may take only a few seconds, or ten or twenty seconds before you carry out daily activities. This incorporates mindfulness into your daily life. In this way, meditation will gradually be an integral part of your daily life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwvG_5hCWMo&list=PLG59GFmZzsi6y0rppKahVNKdTocWEQizP&index=41&pp=gAQBiAQB Meditation is not limited to sitting there. Wherever you go, you can always be mindful […]
9-2 What Is Meditation?
What is meditation? If you are practicing mindful breathing, then your meditation is mindful breathing. After a period of practice, take a break while maintaining mindfulness. The next step is to be mindful during meditation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDr2bl7Qfdc&list=PLG59GFmZzsi6y0rppKahVNKdTocWEQizP&index=40&pp=gAQBiAQB Let's take the meditation on multiplicity as an example. Meditate for a while, and then take a break while […]