Through meditation, many people from all walks of life have learnt to reduce stress and be free from harmful states of mind such as anger, uncontrolled desire and ignorance. Meditation helps us develop positive minds such as love, compassion and wisdom, and in this way help us come to experience lasting peace and happiness. These…
Meditation is a training of the mind in concentration. To be absolutely correct, meditation is training the mind in concentrating on a neutral object such as the breath or virtuous object such as, but not limited to love, wisdom, compassion, kindness and patience. These objects and others will be discussed later in subsequent lessons. The…
So, in short, meditation is particularly training in neutral or virtuous concentration and it functions to calm the mind and acquaint the mind with virtue. During meditation we use two main functions namely: Mindfulness and Alertness which are essentially the building blocks of concentration. It may seem as if I am repeating myself below, but…
In General, the meditation object is what you are meditating on. Whether it be a sound, a word, a visualization, a sensation, a feeling or a concept, we use the word Object to indicate what we are meditating on. In meditation, there is a stage called placement meditation. In this stage we place our minds…
When we practice meditation we need to be comfortable while maintaining a good posture. If you are too comfortable like lying in your bed you may fall asleep and if you force yourself into a posture that you are not capable of sitting in then you will simply get irritated and distracted. The most important…