meditation

solas

needed this

Inviting Silence

I become the detached observer
And watch
My thoughts, with lives of their own
Flash and flutter
Rise and fall
Come and Go
So many butterfiles outside my window

And I smile
And I slow
My thoughts
To rest
Kindly I calm them all
To rest

Motionless, effortless, all quite
A great and peaceful ocean
Home to mysteries and treasure
At voiceless rest beneath the sea

With silent contemplation
And inner awareness
The mind clears its way
I enter the vastness
And drift beneth its gentle surface
In slow strong current of deeper self
Currents of serenity
Currents of love
Currents of joy
Currents of bliss

I am suddenly free
Free from a noisy mind
Free from a warring brain
Free to embrace the beauty of all life
Free to connect
With my pure spirit
To know only peace and kindness
Love and joy
A moment of eternal freedom

Liberated by mind
The deepest part of me
Emerges from within
And with the small and subtle gentle touches
Silence speaks to me


Bhante

enjoy

Oryx

Perfect chill out thoughts for a hectic day. Where do you find these gems?

solas

Bhante Wimala
perhaps I should state that he is a buddhist monk just in case people might think I'm trying to subliminally convert them to buddhism. But I consider most meditations a universal philosophy.

Have some of his meditations on cd and he has written a book or two, would highly recommend poems of awakening. He will be in Wicklow in August for a four day retreat which I'm doing my best to get to. Four day's of silence..should be fun

transperson

cheers.

i'd agree, meditation is universal.

i suppose its a technique not a religion

Stabshauptmann

transperson wrote:

cheers.

i'd agree, meditation is universal.

i suppose its a technique not a religion

But each religion trys to promote certain techniques it sees as its own.

What meaning one attaches to the word varies greatly, apparently. Technically its more about contemplation than relaxation. Some religions and philosophies advocate that this contemplation leads to a greater understanding, inner peace and thus relaxation follows. But for others meditation is an effort to become attune to their surroundings and the natural world and for others to become attune to a divine power and contemplate spiritual and ethical matters.

Meditation I suppose put broadly, is opening the mind. IMO and the commonly held definition, this is to relax the mind and shut out external stimuli, so you can find whatever it is you are meditating on (inner peace or answers etc).

For me water seems to work well. I find something very relaxing and natural about water. Its a part of all life.

What works for you?

transperson

anything that can communicate the natural flux of our phenomenal reality is good, water especially, it embodies the flux in the most direct and obvious manner-flowing before our eyes ears and touch. the flow defies conceptualisation by the rational and usually dominant minds. it gives freedom to our intuitive mind which can interpret the the phenomenal experience in a holistic and very real way. this is focus on sensation on what we really are a bundle of sensation.

but for me meditation is all about clearness of all mind, no sensation, no mind, extinction of this self that we sence ourselves as that is just sensation, a manifestation of the metaphenomenal, the one, brahman, clear cosmic consiousness. we must clear all sence to extinguish our self and achieve direct oneness and unity with the metaphenomenal.

i have never practiced meditation seriously, only as an experiment briefly, when i am older i will, so i do not know what it is like to experience true meditation, only the meditation on somethingthat you refer to. and as such it is contemplation of our reality and that leads to inner peace and relaxation through understanding.
meditation in all forms [not just sitting crosslegged you can meditate at all and any time, its just easier when you body is still and outward sensation is shutoff as much as possible] is the key to understanding and to peace and to unity