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Dudits
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meditation
#19073782 - 11/02/13 06:42 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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What does your meditation look like. I have a really hard time grasping such a simple concept. The closest I get Is when im driving slumping Dre Dog , or when im gardening or cleaning my pool. All are shortlived but they are still gaps in my ever moving mind.
1.What do you do?
2.How long do you do it?
3. How often do you?
4. What does it do for you?
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Re: meditation [Re: Dudits]
#19073798 - 11/02/13 06:52 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Always aware, flowing with the mind currents. I don't do any posture, it seems silly to "try". Sometimes I have strange feelings when laying in bed. Occasionally I even see mental images which are interesting. I like watching my third eye tv when it occurs. They say you have better dreams when these images happen before sleep. I used to try when I smoked cannabis, cause it was easy to have a journey with an aid....or other substance. Some drugs force meditation, seems to be their medical property.
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Chronic7
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Re: meditation [Re: Dudits]
#19073921 - 11/02/13 07:48 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Dudits said: What does your meditation look like. I have a really hard time grasping such a simple concept. The closest I get Is when im driving slumping Dre Dog , or when im gardening or cleaning my pool. All are shortlived but they are still gaps in my ever moving mind.
1.What do you do?
2.How long do you do it?
3. How often do you?
4. What does it do for you?
I question the idea that i'm supposed to do anything at all in order to be myself, question the idea that the things i ultimately seek, peace, happiness, love, wisdom, are apart from me and that i need to do something to get them
I find it's not really questioning it through thinking about it, or believing in thoughts that these things are within myself, but more a disbelief in all thoughts in general, in favour of experiencing reality/myself as it is/as i am, beyond thoughts, as it feels intimately obvious to myself that i can not be a thought, no thought can define the essence of my being, yet they have so far dictated my existence, no longer shall it be!
The only obstacle (if there even is one) to a clear mind is thinking 'too much', whatever 'too much' is, really even thinking that you have to clear your mind is a deception of thought, it runs deep, the greatest deception is self-deception through believing in your own thoughts, so i simply do not believe my thoughts about anything, don't believe anything i can ever think of as real, its just imagination so not real, only what i can directly experience right now is important & real to me
What's the most important thing in really living life? Is it something i can think of, something i can imagine? or is it the presence of whatever is already here, beyond all efforts, beyond all striving, beyond imagination, life unto itself
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Yogi1
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I sit in a traditional posture on a pillow to raise the spine, and focus on breathing. There is no forcefully resisting the mind, like a child seeking attention, the mind will shout chatter at you and like a child, you can't stop it from coming. Treat it like the child and don't give it the attention it craves.
Let erratic thoughts that come from the mind flow through it and exit with out paying it mind.
Focus on deep diaphragm breathing and simply be the breath rather than body. Being the breath is how you stop time and thought.
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Re: meditation [Re: Dudits]
#19075028 - 11/02/13 12:55 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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My meditative form is highly distinguishable from the common norm. Noone has ever created a better meditative trance than the one I have employed in my daily life, it is one which no longer ignores the trance state which suggests that the eternal spirit is embraced in your soul. One of those trance states that doesn't wish to acknowledge that the request to be placed in this state was something you initially resisted to, you didn't wish to acknowledge that you first resisted to this force, to the trance that was imposing its form on you. Whether you liked it or not you were going into this trance, and you wouldn't be able to prevent it from putting you into its form. It created a new way for you to fall into states in which you have no association. Sometimes you will discover a state of mind unlike anything similar to what you could have bestowed, and when you try to conceive of this trance you discover that you revealed the gesture which signified that you abandoned the notion to attempt to provide for a state that revealed absolutely nothing in relation to yourself.
My friends hold all these meditative sessions at there house, actually it was first supposed to be held in my house, but then they changed their plans and decided to have it in there house. The house wasn't owned by my friend though, it was owned by someone that knew him in vague connection. Indeed he felt compelled to sell the house the next day to a clown in a circus nearby, and thus he felt he attained such a great gift.
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Quote:
The Chronic said:
I question the idea that i'm supposed to do anything at all in order to be myself, question the idea that the things i ultimately seek, peace, happiness, love, wisdom, are apart from me and that i need to do something to get them
I find it's not really questioning it through thinking about it, or believing in thoughts that these things are within myself, but more a disbelief in all thoughts in general, in favour of experiencing reality/myself as it is/as i am, beyond thoughts, as it feels intimately obvious to myself that i can not be a thought, no thought can define the essence of my being, yet they have so far dictated my existence, no longer shall it be!
The only obstacle (if there even is one) to a clear mind is thinking 'too much', whatever 'too much' is, really even thinking that you have to clear your mind is a deception of thought, it runs deep, the greatest deception is self-deception through believing in your own thoughts, so i simply do not believe my thoughts about anything, don't believe anything i can ever think of as real, its just imagination so not real, only what i can directly experience right now is important & real to me
What's the most important thing in really living life? Is it something i can think of, something i can imagine? or is it the presence of whatever is already here, beyond all efforts, beyond all striving, beyond imagination, life unto itself
I really like the way you put that. Meditation has allowed me to observe my thoughts, and as you say, not believe in them. It allows you the experience of being rather than thinking. If I think of how much of my life has been wasted in thinking, in imagining and worrying...But meditation helps you to be fully present in the moment, and that is real living.
I meditate every morning for at least 20 minutes, longer if I don't have to go to work. I find that if I skip even one morning it really affects my day. I'm less calm, more prone to stress, and less able to just let everything wash over me. I think it's partly because I'm more prone to start believing my thoughts if I haven't started off the day with meditation, but I think there is more to it than that. The actual feeling it creates, the sense of well-being, well it's a bit like taking a drug, there are chemicals involved. I found this interesting article recently.
Meditation and sex are the same to your brain
As to what I do...I sit and observe my thoughts using my breath as a focus to bring me back to the present.
-------------------- Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test. ~ Rumi The day we start giving Love instead of seeking Love, we will have re-written our whole destiny. ~ Swami Chinmayanada Saraswatir
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