Meditation and Insight
Meditation the Innate Capacity 2
Meditation is a natural human capacity like walking.
The Power of Meditation
Meditation has the power to transform your body, mind and life.
Urges in Meditation
It is liberating to realize that you do not have to do anything now even though you have the urge to do something in your meditation.
Meditation and School
Meditation is like going to school where you gain new knowledge by seeing for yourself instead of accepting words from books and teachers.
True Meditation
True meditation addresses the cause, not just symptoms.
The True Value of Meditation
Meditation grows you within to meet your true teacher, your own life.
The True Value of Meditation 3
Meditation leads us to liberating realization. For example, the things that we try to eliminate in our meditation are our own creations and we often create our own suffering.
Your Breath
Your breath is a bridge connecting your body, your mind and the world including countless living beings, while also connecting you to past and future.
Breathing 2
Breathing is not just a bodily function but the workings of the universe.
Stagnant Meditation
If you watched your breath for 10 years and learned little or nothing, it is like you went school for 10 years and learned little or nothing.
Actionless Action
Meditation is actionless action. It brings changes to your body, your mind, your life and even people around you.
The True Difficulty of Meditation
The true difficulty of meditation is not how to do it but why to do it.
Useful Things Become Useless
A useful thing becomes useless when you do not know how to use it. So do adversities in life and the thoughts that come during meditation.
Mental Chatter
Benefit from your mental chatter in your meditation rather than trying to get rid of it or running away from it.
Mental Chatter 2
Your mental chatter is your creation.
Better Than Trying to Stop Thinking
Not inviting unwanted thoughts is better than trying to stop them.
Breathing 3
Breathing is connecting to the world.
Each Breath
Each breath provides a chance to truly live.
Each Breath 2
Each breath provides an opportunity to live better.
Breath Awareness and Insight
Paying attention to one’s breath reveals deep insights into oneself and the world.
Not Breathing Alone
You are not breathing alone but with the universe.
Self-Knowledge 2
Knowledge empowers, self-knowledge transforms.
Rediscovering Walking
How you use your feet and body while walking is important, but how you use your mind is even more important.
What You See
What you see is because of what you do not see.
Great Intelligence 2
Ordinary intelligence sees only the cup but great intelligence sees the self and the world in the cup.
An Obstacle to Knowing
Not knowing what you do not know is an obstacle to knowing.
From Contradiction to Transformation
Knowing one’s own contradictions is the beginning of knowing one’s own ignorance. Knowing one’s own ignorance is the beginning of knowing oneself. Knowing oneself is the beginning of self-transformation.
Intelligence and Wisdom
Knowing truth is intelligence. Knowing truth from untruth is wisdom.
Three Kinds of Knowledge 3
Knowledge of nonself, the conventional knowledge, helps you get what you think you want. Knowledge of self helps you know what you truly want. Knowledge of both helps you grow beyond desire.
The True Value of Meditation 5
The true value of meditation is inner growth.
Inner Growth
Inner growth is essentially the process of realizing and solving our own contradictions, such as why we often create our own suffering despite not wanting it.
Transformation Through Benefiting Others
By benefiting others, we honor the sacrifices and contributions of all living beings that made our lives possible, and transform ourselves and the world for the better.
World Transformation
Transforming ourselves within transforms our world.
source: New Direction Archive