If each day you can meditate for an hour, it would be excellent! If you can do it only half an hour, it is still helpful. You can split your meditation. Half an hour in the morning plus another half an hour in the evening gives you an hour of meditation for that day. Any …
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Once your mind becomes more and more still, experiences will gradually and naturally develop. A mental crystal ball, bright sphere, sun or moon can become suddenly clearer and brighter. If anything arises by itself, let it be. Just observe and continue. An experience is a good sign to show that your mind is starting to …
Most people in our modern time have been trained to be managers. We learn to manage everything in our life. When you meditate, be careful not to be a good manager. Rather, you have to be a good observer. When any experience, feeling or thought comes into your meditation, you should only observe. To observe …
Experiences and pictures are not the objective of meditation practice. What is important is your mind development. All experience is just natural consequences of your practice. Without expectation your mind can be stilled easier. The expectation is always accompanied by worrying. We spend more of our mental energy when we expect things. One right solution …
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If you fall asleep, don’t be concerned. It can be a good sign since it shows that you are relaxing well, though perhaps just a bit too well. Take several deep breaths, move your body a little and continue practicing. Many people have a good experience after this step. Take care to also use a …
The Wandering Mind Visits If the ‘wandering mind’ turns up, please don’t pay any attention. Treat it as an uninvited guest. When you don’t pay it any attention, it will leave you. In this way, you can keep continuing focusing to picture, feeling or mantra at your center. The more continuously you can be peaceful …
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Thinking processes are necessary to cope with the environment. In our life from the moment, we wake up each morning, we start to interact with our surroundings. In almost every moment there are signals coming from our five sense organs: eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin. We need to think in order to interpret and …
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If you remember using a microscope or telescope in science class, you will realize how importance of patience needed to tune lenses to obtain a clear picture. It’s similar to when we tune a radio or used to tune televisions to receive a channel. We are used to being careful to tune devices to get …
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According to our practice, the mind has several ‘bases’, or resting places, in the body. When you meditate, you can imagine your object such as a crystal ball, sun, moon or star. Let it become small and move to our nostril. Let it stay at your nostril for a few seconds and then move it …
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When you close your eyes, you will bring your mind to your center of gravity. We know that we can’t simply grasp or catch our mind to achieve this. People don’t even know where their mind is during each moment. The way of knowing where our mind is located is actually very simple. When we …
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