meditation
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The art of sitting and doing nothing.
What’s your meditation routine?
Sitting down to meditate you might get caught in the idea that you need to fix something - that something is wrong and meditations job is to produce a certain state.
Instead, it can be helpful just to be curious about where attention is at any moment and to gently return it to rest in the body if it's wandered.
Instead, it can be helpful just to be curious about where attention is at any moment and to gently return it to rest in the body if it's wandered.
🍃 LEAVES
🍃 IN THE STREAM
🍃 MEDITATION
Whilst sitting quietly, bring your focus to your breath. Start to notice the thoughts that come into your mind. As you notice each thought, imagine putting those words onto a leaf as it floats by on a stream. Place each thought that you notice onto a leaf, and watch it drift on by. There's no need to look for the thoughts, or to remain alert waiting for them to come. Just let them come, and when they do, place them onto a leaf.
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EVERYDAY MINDFULNESS
365 WAYS TO A CENTERED LIFE
04.27.2025
🍃 IN THE STREAM
🍃 MEDITATION
Whilst sitting quietly, bring your focus to your breath. Start to notice the thoughts that come into your mind. As you notice each thought, imagine putting those words onto a leaf as it floats by on a stream. Place each thought that you notice onto a leaf, and watch it drift on by. There's no need to look for the thoughts, or to remain alert waiting for them to come. Just let them come, and when they do, place them onto a leaf.
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EVERYDAY MINDFULNESS
365 WAYS TO A CENTERED LIFE
04.27.2025
If you're going to FarCon next week, on the Saturday you could go and learn from a great meditation teacher at 09:30 and be free by 15:00.
What a blessing it'd be to be in NYC!
https://henryshukman.com/events/nyc-daylong-may-2025
What a blessing it'd be to be in NYC!
https://henryshukman.com/events/nyc-daylong-may-2025
I’ve been regularly fasting on a Monday and it’s been pretty good. Mental clarity is good and I get into some pretty wild places when i meditate fasted. However cannot wait for dinner.
I always start my days with some meditation. It is a short session just to get centered and start in the right track. It makes a huge difference to my day.
Everybody has the potential to change. Anybody who doubts this has yet to meditate.
~ Chamtrul Rinpoche
~ Chamtrul Rinpoche
"In my own experience, I can see that we can act ourselves into a new way of feeling much quicker that we can feel ourselves into a new way of acting.
So, don't just wait to be inspired to do your practice regularly - whatever it is you practice. Start being regular and inspiration/blessing may turn up sooner than you expect!"
- Drikung Lama Hun Lye
So, don't just wait to be inspired to do your practice regularly - whatever it is you practice. Start being regular and inspiration/blessing may turn up sooner than you expect!"
- Drikung Lama Hun Lye
Types of Meditation
There are several different forms of meditation, each with its unique focus and technique:
Mindfulness Meditation: Involves paying attention to the present moment without judgment. This practice often includes observing thoughts, feelings, and sensations in the body.
Loving-Kindness Meditation (Metta): Focuses on developing feelings of compassion and love toward oneself and others.
Transcendental Meditation: Involves silently repeating a mantra to quiet the mind and reach a deep state of relaxation.
Guided Meditation: A meditation practice led by a teacher or guide, often through an audio or video recording, which can be helpful for beginners.
There are several different forms of meditation, each with its unique focus and technique:
Mindfulness Meditation: Involves paying attention to the present moment without judgment. This practice often includes observing thoughts, feelings, and sensations in the body.
Loving-Kindness Meditation (Metta): Focuses on developing feelings of compassion and love toward oneself and others.
Transcendental Meditation: Involves silently repeating a mantra to quiet the mind and reach a deep state of relaxation.
Guided Meditation: A meditation practice led by a teacher or guide, often through an audio or video recording, which can be helpful for beginners.
Benefits of Meditation
1. Stress Reduction
2. Improved Focus and Concentration
3. Emotional Health
4. Better Sleep
Physical Health
1. Stress Reduction
2. Improved Focus and Concentration
3. Emotional Health
4. Better Sleep
Physical Health
Meditation: A Path to Inner Peace
Meditation is an ancient practice that has been used for thousands of years to promote mental, physical, and emotional well-being. It involves focusing the mind, calming the body, and finding a deep state of relaxation. While meditation originated in spiritual traditions, today it is widely practiced as a tool for stress reduction, improving focus, and enhancing overall health.
Meditation is an ancient practice that has been used for thousands of years to promote mental, physical, and emotional well-being. It involves focusing the mind, calming the body, and finding a deep state of relaxation. While meditation originated in spiritual traditions, today it is widely practiced as a tool for stress reduction, improving focus, and enhancing overall health.
im doing a weeklong jhana-focused meditation retreat starting tomorrow evening. any advice for a first-timer?
(also im gonna be offline and incommunicado for a week. dont miss me too much)
(also im gonna be offline and incommunicado for a week. dont miss me too much)
Meditation practice:
Volume all the way up- close your eyes and hear the waves and breathe.
*Waves captured this AM during ocean walk.
I hope these 20 seconds brings you some peace today. Replay if needed 🙏🏾
Volume all the way up- close your eyes and hear the waves and breathe.
*Waves captured this AM during ocean walk.
I hope these 20 seconds brings you some peace today. Replay if needed 🙏🏾
Woke up 30 min earlier today.
Deduced to go to a 10 min meditation.
6 min in and I hear my daughter DAAAAAD.
End of story.
Deduced to go to a 10 min meditation.
6 min in and I hear my daughter DAAAAAD.
End of story.
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@emps·07:05 25/03/2025
Starting tomorrow I’ll wake up 30 min earlier.
Now, what can I do with that time?
Now, what can I do with that time?
“Wisdom invite us to take a breath, to step out of the body of fear, and to recognize that the world is not a problem to solve, but a living organism to which we belong.
Loving awareness says, ‘Take your seat, open your heart, and step into the vast, timeless reality of love.’”
Jack Kornfield
Loving awareness says, ‘Take your seat, open your heart, and step into the vast, timeless reality of love.’”
Jack Kornfield
Anyone else here using "Waking Up" app? I've tried a few different apps over the years and this is the first that seems to be sticking (25 sessions since New Year)
The path of pausing ~ Pema Chödron
“The primary focus of this path of choosing wisely, of this training to de-escalate aggression, is learning to stay present. Pausing very briefly, frequently throughout the day, is an almost effortless way to do this. For just a few seconds we can be right here. Meditation is another way to train in learning to stay, or, as one student put it more accurately, learning to come back, to return to being present over and over again.”
“The primary focus of this path of choosing wisely, of this training to de-escalate aggression, is learning to stay present. Pausing very briefly, frequently throughout the day, is an almost effortless way to do this. For just a few seconds we can be right here. Meditation is another way to train in learning to stay, or, as one student put it more accurately, learning to come back, to return to being present over and over again.”
Know yourself to be the changeless witness of the changeful mind. That is enough.
#Nisargadatta Maharaj
#Nisargadatta Maharaj
day 1 of giving meditation a shot (again).
i really hope that i don’t give up easily this time.
if anyone’s got suggestions/tips that can help me form this habit successfully, i’d love to know what helped you when you got started or even if you failed to form the habit the first time and then tried again and succeeded. 🥺💙
i really hope that i don’t give up easily this time.
if anyone’s got suggestions/tips that can help me form this habit successfully, i’d love to know what helped you when you got started or even if you failed to form the habit the first time and then tried again and succeeded. 🥺💙
Experiencing your life through thoughts is like experiencing dinner by eating the menu
I’ve found cold showers to be a great example of this. Are you experiencing the bright, crisp cold? Or are you experiencing your brains interpretation of those sensations as a bad thing?
I’ve found cold showers to be a great example of this. Are you experiencing the bright, crisp cold? Or are you experiencing your brains interpretation of those sensations as a bad thing?
The first thing to realise in meditation is that there is no authority, that the mind must be completely free to examine, to observe, to learn. —Krishnamurti
training in mindfulness is a training in awareness and understanding of ones own mind so that one can experience freedom from feeling like the victim of ones own impulses
the tibetan for meditation is 'gom', also sometimes translated as 'getting familiar with'
the tibetan for meditation is 'gom', also sometimes translated as 'getting familiar with'
When emotionally or mentally hurting: If you can, visualize the emotional pain in your body, locate it, and imagine yourself energetically pulling it and releasing it from your body. Do this with repetition and the pain will lessen. Also spend some of the time filling the 'wound' with self-love. Worked for me especially for old trauma.
GM all! I ask you:
“How do you know you have a right hand? Or any body part?”
One of my intentions today is to remind myself to just be. Redirecting the “see-er” to the being, the feeling. Therein lies the peace we seek.
All the best, and have a beautiful day! 💙
“How do you know you have a right hand? Or any body part?”
One of my intentions today is to remind myself to just be. Redirecting the “see-er” to the being, the feeling. Therein lies the peace we seek.
All the best, and have a beautiful day! 💙
Mindful change is gradual. It doesn't turn on, it fades in. One day you notice yourself choosing your words as you speak, being at ease in your body, not worrying how others see you, and feeling like you're in control of your future. Then it hits you that you've leveled up. - Cory Allen
Folding pile of fresh laundry feels like meditating🧘♀️
The primary focus of this path of choosing wisely, of this training to de-escalate aggression, is learning to stay present. Pausing very briefly, frequently throughout the day, is an almost effortless way to do this. For just a few seconds we can be right here. Meditation is another way to train in learning to stay, or, as one student put it more accurately, learning to come back, to return to being present over and over again.
Pema Chödrön
Pema Chödrön
Just as Water, if you don't stir it, will become clear.
Remember the well-known Tibetan proverb that says,
"If you do not stir the water, it will become transparent by itself."
Therefore, if you find yourself in a state of confusion or other troubling state, don't change it. It's just that simple.
Peace and bliss arise if you do not change your mind but leave it as it is.
All the different meditation instructions are only a number of ways to reach a moment of courage, sincerity and warm atmosphere in which you can let yourself go.
Chögyal Namkhai Norbu
Remember the well-known Tibetan proverb that says,
"If you do not stir the water, it will become transparent by itself."
Therefore, if you find yourself in a state of confusion or other troubling state, don't change it. It's just that simple.
Peace and bliss arise if you do not change your mind but leave it as it is.
All the different meditation instructions are only a number of ways to reach a moment of courage, sincerity and warm atmosphere in which you can let yourself go.
Chögyal Namkhai Norbu
If you need to meditate on something, writing an extremely detailed prompt for your AI meditation app is already a tenth of the journey.
Five ways to rest the mind in meditation:
Rest in a natural way like a small child.
Rest like an ocean without waves.
Rest within clarity like a candle flame.
Rest without self-concerns like a human corpse.
Rest unmoving like a mountain.
–Milarepa
Rest in a natural way like a small child.
Rest like an ocean without waves.
Rest within clarity like a candle flame.
Rest without self-concerns like a human corpse.
Rest unmoving like a mountain.
–Milarepa
Losar Tashi Delek to all who celebrate!
“I am more than enough”💫🧘♀️ Wanna share inspiration with you ✨ https://insig.ht/4ZrkNipKgRb
GM. Remember that you are not the thoughts images or emotions themselves, but the one who is aware of them.
Rest in the stillness of awareness itself.
Let go of any striving or seeking, and simply be with the ever present awareness that underlies all experience.
Let go of any striving or seeking, and simply be with the ever present awareness that underlies all experience.
Just switched to an AI meditation app that can generate guided meditations on extremely specific topics instead of mass-market fluff.
I’m going to miss Jay Shetty’s corny jokes.
I’m going to miss Jay Shetty’s corny jokes.
After taking far too much time off from meditating and struggling mentally since the holidays, I've gotten back to mindful meditation in the past week, twice a day, and it has been a savior.
"When we put all our energies into a practice, it is quite common for bad deeds from the past to surface, so that all sorts of unwanted things happen to us:
We fall physically ill, feel mentally anguished, experience the manifestations of negative forces and obstacle makers, fall victim to hostile people, bandits and thieves, find ourselves subject to people’s criticisms and false accusations, and so on.
These are said to be signs that we are purifying ourselves, like the dirt that comes out when one washes a container. Therefore, when such things happen to you, don the great armor of diligence that renders the practice impervious to unpleasant circumstances."
~ DUDJOM RINPOCHE
From: "A Torch Lighting the Way to Freedom" - Shambhala Publications
We fall physically ill, feel mentally anguished, experience the manifestations of negative forces and obstacle makers, fall victim to hostile people, bandits and thieves, find ourselves subject to people’s criticisms and false accusations, and so on.
These are said to be signs that we are purifying ourselves, like the dirt that comes out when one washes a container. Therefore, when such things happen to you, don the great armor of diligence that renders the practice impervious to unpleasant circumstances."
~ DUDJOM RINPOCHE
From: "A Torch Lighting the Way to Freedom" - Shambhala Publications
Difficult circumstances are an opportunity to deepen your practice. If you don’t rely on your inner strength during hardships, when will you? - Khenpo Munsel Rinpoche
The only video that becomes more enjoyable at 0.75x playback speed.
https://youtu.be/z867dlHCq9c?si=cJpHx2ryj9fbifeQ
https://youtu.be/z867dlHCq9c?si=cJpHx2ryj9fbifeQ
I started my day with a short meditation. I’ve been doing this for 20 days. It has a great impact in my day.
Do you meditate? For how long? And how often?
Which app do you use? Do you do guided meditation?
I am looking for some inspiration. ✨
Do you meditate? For how long? And how often?
Which app do you use? Do you do guided meditation?
I am looking for some inspiration. ✨
