Meditation can be in the recreation category, as opposed to the work category of human activity. And it’s the best form of recreation if we consider it’s quality and effectiveness of charging our mind. It has some differences to a lot of other forms of recreation. If you play sport you will be required to …
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Then we can assume that some of the time we spend our mind energy and other times we recharge it. We use our mind energy during our studying or working time. We simply recharge it when we are free from our work or study commitments. From this we can summarize: When our mind is concentrated, …
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In the morning when we wake up, we feel fresh. Then we go forwards to do some form of work during the day. Young children spend time in school, young adults may study at college or university, but it is still work of a sort. Each day at our study or work place, we will …
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If we imagine a meter which shows the status of our mind energy, sometimes it will show a high level, and sometimes a low level. When you drive a car and the petrol gauge shows an empty tank, you need to find a petrol station. If you see lower battery sign of your mobile or …
Once we know nature of an element or energy, we can use it. Techniques can be developed until eventually it becomes technology. We can use water power to generate electricity. Likewise we can use sun to create solar energy. If we know the nature of our mind and know how to handle it, we will …
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The mind can be considered a kind of energy. It’s the same as the sun, wind, flowing water, electricity and so on; it moves. The body is the material part which is fixed and concrete. The mind is the spiritual part which is moving. We use different natural energies in our daily life. They serve …
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Meditation is an activity we do with our mind. It’s 100% a mental activity. Why? Because during meditation we do not move any part of our body. If you have ever seen a Buddha image or statue, you normally see him sitting with his eyes closed. It’s the image representing his enlightenment and also his …
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Neuroscience is the study of the our brain function. With sophisticated detectors we can see which part of our brain becomes active at certain times. We study our brain as hardware and try to understand how it functions. However, neuroscience is limited in that it cannot explain clearly what happens when we think. Knowledge of …
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To talk about meditation, we should start first with the existence of the mind. Do you think that the mind exists or not? For a long time in school and university we study a lot about ourselves. Most of what we learn when we are young is about our body. What we know about ourselves …
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We have seen more and more people becoming interested in meditation in the last few decades. Everythingaround us has become faster and faster. We can communicate with people who are in another part of the world very easily. Information technology changes our world continuously. Inspite of this we wouldn’t say that people of our modern …
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