The Practice of Meditation
Why meditate?
Everyone wants happiness but it seems that few of us found it. In our pursuit of the satisfaction we get from one relationship to another, from one job to another, from one country to another. We spend our money with sophisticated sound equipment, computers, holidays in the sun. Or try to get back to nature, eating whole foods, yoga and meditation. Virtually everything we do is an attempt to find true happiness in interesting things and avoid contact with us even deeper. We fear that contact because it is based on fear of ignorance, anger and attachment.
There is nothing wrong with any of these things, there's nothing wrong with getting relationships and possessions. The problem is that we look as if they have some inherent ability to satisfy us, as if the causes of happiness. But they can not be - simply because they do not last. Everything is constantly changing in nature and eventually disappears: our body, our friends, all our possessions, environment. Our dependence on impermanent things and our attachment to the happiness they bring multicolor only cause disappointment and pain, and not satisfaction and contentment.
We actually experience happiness with things outside us, but that does not truly satisfy us or free us from our problems. It is a happiness of inferior quality, inconsistent and short-lived. That does not mean we should abandon our friends and our possessions to be happy. Rather, we need to give are our misconceptions about them and our unrealistic expectations about what they can do for us.
According to Buddhism, there is a lasting happiness, stable, and all have the potential to experience it. The causes of happiness are within our own mind, and methods to achieve it can be practiced by anyone, anywhere, in any lifestyle - living in the city, working on a job eight hours a day, taking care of a family having fun on the weekends.
Practicing these methods - meditation - can learn to be happy at any time, even in the most difficult.
Meditation is a method for acquainting our mind with virtue. The more familiar our mind is with virtue, more quiet and peaceful it becomes.
The more calm you are, the more we will be free from worries and mental discomfort or experience true happiness.
If our mind is not peaceful, then even though our situation outside is nice, we are not happy. However, if we train our mind to become peaceful we will be happy all the time, even in harsh conditions and difficult.
Meditation is a mental activity of consciousness: it involves a part of the mind that observes, analyzes and deals with the rest of the mind.
If we can see we are no longer totally unconscious. We are conscious we become.
The goal of meditation is to awaken an extremely subtle level of consciousness and use it to discover reality directly and intuitively.
Meditation analytical
conceptual understanding how things are. It is an intensive study session that may arouse a level of conceptual thinking much more subtle and powerful that we have in everyday life.
Before we can know how things are we must first identify our misconceptions. Therefore, meditate on the LAM RIM initially to develop renunciation, the determination to escape from suffering, not being under the influence of these misconceptions. Then meditate to awaken the sincere love and compassion and ultimately eradicating the design meditate erroneous, staying calm and making sense of emptiness.
analytical meditation is contemplation, is the basis for stabilizing meditation. Meditation analytical depends on listening, reading and receive the teachings of the Dharma.
contemplate the lessons that comes up an experiment: an inspiration virtuous, as a deep feeling of compassion that takes our mind to clear thinking and determined. When this feeling arises, meditate on it single-pointedly. If the mind loses this concentration, we turn to the contemplation of meditation until you feel aroused and can focus on it again.
Meditation stabilizing (or placed in single-pointed concentration) Concentration
directed at a single point: the breath, the nature of mind, a concept, a preview image - without interruption.
Say Think and mind to feel it! The meditations
stabilizers and chemical properties are complementary and used in the same session. The views Tantric meditation also involves these two steps.
Bibliography: How to Meditate - a practical guide. Kathleen McDonald. Ed.Pensamento
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