Qualities of meditation
Apr. 24th, 2025 07:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
micki“Sitting in mindfulness, both our bodies and minds can be at peace and totally relaxed. But this state of peace and relaxation the first fundamentally from the lazy, semi-conscious state of mind that one gets while resting and dozing. Sitting in such a lazy semi consciousness, far from being mindfulness, is like sitting in a dark cave. In mindfulness 1 is not only restful and not be, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; It is a serene encounter with reality. The person who practices mindfulness should be no less awake than the driver of a car; If the practitioner isn't awake he will be possessed by dispersion and forgetfulness, just as the drowsy driver is likely to cause a grave accident...
“For beginners, I recommend the method of pure recognition: recognition without judgment. Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; Because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard beads I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have where I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred.
“When possessed by a sadness, an anxiety, a hatred, or a passion or whatever, the method of pure observation and recognition may seem difficult to practice period if so turn to meditation on a fixed object, using your own state of mind this meditation subject. Such meditation reveals and heals. The sadness or anxiety, hatred or passion, under the gaze of concentration and meditation reveals its own nature--A revelation that leads naturally to healing and emancipation. The sadness or whatever has caused the pain can be used as a means of liberation from torment and suffering, like using a thorn to remove a thorn. We should treat our anxiety, our pain, our hatred and our passion gently, respectfully, not resisting it, but living with it, making peace with it, penetrating into its nature by meditation on interdependence….
“Meditation on these subjects, however, can only be successful if we have built up a certain power of concentration, a power achieved by the practice of mindfulness in everyday life, in the observation the recognition of all that is going on. But the objects of meditation must be realities that have real roots in yourself- not just subjects of philosophical speculation.”
“For beginners, I recommend the method of pure recognition: recognition without judgment. Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; Because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard beads I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have where I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred.
“When possessed by a sadness, an anxiety, a hatred, or a passion or whatever, the method of pure observation and recognition may seem difficult to practice period if so turn to meditation on a fixed object, using your own state of mind this meditation subject. Such meditation reveals and heals. The sadness or anxiety, hatred or passion, under the gaze of concentration and meditation reveals its own nature--A revelation that leads naturally to healing and emancipation. The sadness or whatever has caused the pain can be used as a means of liberation from torment and suffering, like using a thorn to remove a thorn. We should treat our anxiety, our pain, our hatred and our passion gently, respectfully, not resisting it, but living with it, making peace with it, penetrating into its nature by meditation on interdependence….
“Meditation on these subjects, however, can only be successful if we have built up a certain power of concentration, a power achieved by the practice of mindfulness in everyday life, in the observation the recognition of all that is going on. But the objects of meditation must be realities that have real roots in yourself- not just subjects of philosophical speculation.”
