Remain in maître, learn to stay in complete acceptance of yourself until you directly experience a compassionate wisdom emanating from your center, to your very core. My tree of life giving fruit, you are the bearer of these mental fruits labeled as thoughts. Make an effort to quickly burst the bubble that stems from my ego, a defensive, self cherishing Gollem with an unquenchable appetite for desirable experiences. Heart practice on a daily basis helps in cultivation of compassionate wisdom. Seeing from someone else’s perspective and POV (point of view), and staying in that person’s image for a few meditative breaths. The body has cellular memory of every pain it has ever experience, the cells used this pain to find a host body to occupy. The physical body is the consciousness contained within a cell that becomes the seed and source of my previous pain and ignorance. These latent compulsions arise when the conditions are ripe. We must cultivate the practice by not reinforcing our negative emotions through escape, staying with your breath and not breaking meditative stabilization. To see reality as thoughts that have been conditioned to create our false identification with self, the I.
Posts Tagged ‘meditation’
Who am I without these thoughts?
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009Now
Monday, June 15th, 2009What does it mean to be free from thought? Is it the same as being in the moment. Living for today can be a chore when our thoughts only wander from past to future. I cannot understand why the human brain never stops thinking. What drives the brain to continue this incessant chatter and noise? Sometimes I think thoughts hold up the illusion we create for ourselves. The processing never ends, even in our sleep, thoughts continue in our dreams. The mind may sometimes be difficult to manuever but with practice, the mind can be cultivated to focus on one thing, and one thought only. Although this excercise is easier said than done, it does not necessarily take a long time to be focused on a single object. I sometimes play a game telling myself that if I did not understand language or know my ABCs what would my senses be paying attention to? The now I suppose. No labeling, no naming or comparing, just being.
Technology and Meditation
Sunday, March 1st, 2009Technology and meditation:
What if technology was able to assist people to reach heightened states of consciousness? A technological short cut to the evolution of the human mind might be possible. With the invention of binaural beats, the brain can be influenced in subtle ways through the entrainment of brain waves and can be used to induce relaxation and increased awareness depending on the frequency of the sounds being used, these sound frequencies or waves are called Beta, Alpha, Delta, and Theta. Listening to these different brain waves may not immediately induce any changes in consciousness. A person must also have the proper motivation. Delta (1 to 4 Hz) and theta (4 to 8 Hz) waves may induce relaxed, meditative, and creative mental scripts, it may also help individuals who have trouble sleeping to fall asleep. The alpha frequencies (8 to 12 Hz) can aid in meditation and increase mental clarity and the beta frequencies (16 to 24 Hz) may increase concentration and improve memory. These frequencies can be combined to create various effects on the brain’s ability to process data. These examples are a brief summary of the benefits of this technology, and I recommend doing your own research into this field of brain entrainment. Binaural beats can be applied to many aspects of daily life as a substitute to memory supplements, sleeping pills or caffeine. Binaural beats can also be complimentary to meditation and studying for a test. This all depends on the will and motivation of the observer. Fair warning, this technology may not be recommended for everyone because all of us are unique with varying degrees of intelligence and understanding. Self inquiry and discernment is your best filter in determining which tools to use to raise your consciousness.