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Meditation advice

Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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"Meditation is a process of lightening up, of trusting the basic goodness of what we have and who we are, and of realizing that any wisdom that exists, exists in what we already have. We can lead our life so as to become more awake to who we are and what we’re doing rather than trying to improve or change or get rid of who we are or what we’re doing. The key is to wake up, to become more alert, more inquisitive and curious about ourselves."

~ Pema Chodron

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it."

~ Sylvia Boorstein

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Buddhist Quotes

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
And what really happens the moment you say, "OK, thoughts, come up, I welcome you!" Suddenly there are no thoughts! What is happening? "Come on, thoughts, where are you?" Except for an occasional blip, they stop arising.

~ Dennis Genpo Merzel
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
In the Theravada Buddhism tradition, it’s taught that the antidote to anger is loving-kindness and compassion. If you’re angry with someone, you hold them in your heart with loving-kindness and compassion; if you’re angry with yourself, you do the same. But because you sometimes get swept away by anger, you forget your intention to respond with loving-kindness and compassion. Also, anger isn’t always so easy to recognize—sometimes it’s disguised as numbness, depression, helplessness, or fear. By applying mindfulness to your moments of anger, you can begin to see anger as it is arising and its harmful effects. As you continue to stay present to the anger, you realize that “This anger is not me, nor mine. It is just a mind state that like the weather will change before long.” This insight releases you from the prison of your anger. Although this may sound simplistic, it truly works.

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Working Mindfully with Anger | Dharma Wisdom
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don’t realise this because almost everybody else is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from being."

~ Eckhart Tolle

You Are Not Your Mind > Eckhart Tolle

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
When I teach meditation, I often begin by saying: “Bring your mind home. And release. And relax.”

To bring your mind home means to bring the mind into the state of Calm Abiding through the practice of mindfulness. In its deepest sense, to bring your mind home is to turn your mind inward and rest in the nature of mind. This itself is the highest meditation.

To release means to release the mind from its prison of grasping, since you recognize that all pain and fear and distress arise from the craving of the grasping mind. On a deeper level, the realization and confidence that arise from your growing understanding of the nature of mind inspire the profound and natural generosity that enables you to release all grasping from your heart, letting it free itself to melt away in the inspiration of meditation.

To relax means to be spacious and to relax the mind of its tensions. More deeply, you relax into the true nature of your mind, the state of Rigpa. It is like pouring a handful of sand onto a hot surface, and each grain settles of its own accord. This is how you relax into your true nature, letting all thoughts and emotions naturally subside and dissolve into the state of the nature of mind.

~ Sogyal Rinpoche
 
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