a engagement of silence

Two thousand five hundred years ago, there has been a lot of the world in the pursuance of the truth came to North India, a quiet place, sitting under the bodhi tree. He swore up and if you do not find that truth is not. Legends, to the evening, he overcame the power of delusion; next a.m., breaking through the sky of Venus, his long insistence, practice and successful meditation,toronto escorts, and finally achieved the ultimate goal of human existence - the awakening.
in that divine moment, the earth vibration, as if is known as the Buddha. The retinue is Vietnamese Thich Nhat Hanh describes the beauty of the awakening of the Buddha:
Gautama his detention BES thousands of students felt the prison had broken, and ignorance has been the jail custodian. Because stupidity, his heart been deceived, as if black clouds covered the moon and stars are common. mind blinded at the infinite waves of paranoia, erroneous into the real world:
landlords and passengers, and his own, the presence and want, life and death; These were beyond generate false views - feeling, craving, grasping, and changes in prison life. ailment and death in the painful, but it thickened the wall of prison. The only job is to catch the jailer, to see his real face. jailer is stupid? -? - Once the guards left the prison will disappear, never to rebuild.
discern the Buddha for the authenticity of our ignorance, the root of all undergoing reincarnation; ignorance is the basis of their own is accessible strewed in the habit of the heart. dispersed over the heart, will be the end of wheel; he realized that the opener of which is via meditation, the heart of home, back to its true nature.
peaceable and serious Buddha Zen sitting nigh in his sky above, as whether to differentiate us: meditation, your mind should be favor the sky are generally open, yet secured to the globe. The sky is our total nature, no boundaries, limitless; the globe is the reality is comparative, comparative heart and Bono of our hearts.
our meditation pose when the character of absolute and relative we are connected, the sky and earth, heaven and earth, like a bird's wings, the integration of the sky if we like no fantasies of, and the mediocre human with restricted heart illusory.
knowledge meditation, in this life can give you the greatest gift of their own. It is only through meditation, you can embark on a excursion to explore authenticity, and accordingly find Do you want to live well, anyone, to die peacefully and confidence essential. Meditation is the road guiding to enlightenment.
cultivating
that there are many ways of meditation, I would have said a thousand times However,this wantonly, each different, direct and fresh every time.
Fortunately, we have many people living in the epoch of awareness meditation. Meditation is increasingly seen as further the cultural and religious barriers of Famennian, granting the meditator directly touched the lives of their truth, be the moment to go beyond religious dogma, is the core of all religions.
Broadly speaking, we are a grain of truth the true self, the activities in the absence of Xiezhi the waste of life; and meditation can take us back to real me, beyond our habits, so that we really realized that and enjoy our whole life.
our lives are consumed in the struggle with anxiety, stress rate of expense and work hard in the whirlpool, consumption in the emulation, grasping, possessing and accomplishments, as always, the activities around them and make their own preconceived prejudices breath.
meditation is just the inverse, it completely changed our does not accept nor reject, nor hope nor fear; in this realm, we can take to soften the atmosphere of restraint, to all the sensations and ideas, into the void of natural naive.
Buddhist Zen main to know the heart is how amenable and flexible. If we practice it, nothing can be done. In fact, we yet trained; the cycle, we were trained to spite, adhering, solicitude, grief, despair and greed, was Once trained to face stimuli to fly into a wrath.
fact, we have been trained to a very serious stage, we do not quest to invoke, these negative emotions will automatically appear. Therefore, all the problems of training and habits . If we are aboveboard, we are clearly into the heart of situations of confusion, it is easy to be confused with dismal specialists, indulge in addiction, easy to develop servility.
in Zen meditation, the mind is committed to release stupid We will find, a long time, with perseverance, punishment and appropriate exercise, our hearts will begin to release its own end, and recognizing some of its own joy and the Ching Ming.
pressed down or forced to be brainwashed mind.
first to directly and specifically look at the heart of the action of the ways that you can from the teachings of spiritual or private experience in meditation to get this wisdom. then you can start to tame your heart, and skill to hone it and make it more flexible; This way, you can become master of your own heart, the heart of the most successful activity, the most rewarding point.
s eighth century Buddhist main Shantideva (Shantideva) said:
mind that if elephants are all aspects of mindfulness tether knotted,
then all fear disappears,
complete happiness will come ,
all enemies: our emotions tiger, lion, elephants, bears, snakes,
and the guardian of hell; evil and horror,
will all be because you control the heart and tamed the heart,
be tied, but was subdued,
because of all the fears and worries get busy the heart of many.
as if the writer must go through long years of hard learn, to jot, such as fill the gap; also like dancers must spent considerable effort and patience worked hard to disco, so once you begin to understand the effects of meditation, you will make every effort to learn, which requires your greatest perseverance, eagerness, wisdom and training.
Zen take heart meditation is to awake to
like the sky like our own heart and mind, let us know their true colors - the same, and constitute the fundamental naturalness of the overall sense of life and death.
heart of the engaged and scattered , a long time we have seen of the interior self, but in the silence of meditation, we can arrest a peep of it, and return to the Self. our hearts, can not maintain even a moment's quiet;
us heart could be so worried, full of prejudices, so that I sometimes think that they live in the modern world metropolis, like the bardo after death like superseded, many suffering. According to some message that Up to thirteen percent of the American soul is not natural, this figure illustrates our way of life for what it?
we are broken up into different parts, we do not know who in the end, do not know coincide or believe what their own part. so many contradictory voices, bid and control our sense of inner life competing, so we feel scattered everywhere, no one at home.
and meditation, it is to heart to take family.
in the Buddha's teachings, there are 3 things that greatly differentiate your meditation, just brought a transient relaxation, serenity and joy, can become aware of your consciousness, and additional major causes. The three things we shriek Finally, the cessation of suffering. Therefore, every time before we begin meditation, we must be motivated in this awakening to the following prayer over the morale of all the Buddhas, engagement to our practice and life, devoted to all sentient beings consciousness:
the power and truth of this practice:
May all beings know joy and happiness are the causes;
May all beings from suffering and the cause of suffering;
May all living beings are not from the holy happiness without pain;
May all beings always calm mind, without too much attachment and too much resentment,
believe that all creatures are equal Fuji.
of good practice is to enter the core of our mind It is creative by the sort of understanding out of Mind, produced from this viewpoint is not decided attitude, without anyone notion of fastening, all awakening to the pith of all entities is br> later the good is the end of our meditation, back to all merit, and sincerely vow: the behalf of all creatures the occasion of the sea. immediate level, you return to the good actions, chant for world peace, pray for everybody completely free from want and ailment, can experience the overall well-being and everlasting delight.
then realized namely everything is illusory because such imagine, you contemplation that, in the maximum mysterious sense, is behind to the merit of you, you are returned apt the merit of the object, alternatively even back to the merit it, they are really of the bardo said, this is the path the end of meditation, the train tin ensure you not consume merit.
the three sacred principles - adept motivation to practice success is not determined attitude and practice back to the end - to make your meditation inspiring but powerful. the great masters of Tibet Long Qing Ba (Longchenpa) praise that they are There was once an age female came before the Buddha, what method of meditation, the Buddha told her that draw water from the well when the hand of every behavior had to be a clear, do this, she will soon find yourself in the quiet {awake|awake} and broad-minded, and that is meditation.
mindfulness to attend, is to take the scattered mind home, take this to different aspects of their lives together, this is called security to live (peacefully remaining or calm abiding). Ann lived to complete three things: First, they have been torn to chips all the parts, in the quondam has always been at campaign, now live and settle down due to safety, while the melt, and become friends. In Among the kind of stability, we begin to understand themselves, and sometimes can even catch a glimpse of light from the nature.
Second, mindfulness attend, can alleviate many lifetimes we have amassed since the negative attitude, aggressive and perplexed emotions. this time, not depressed mood, or sink, but broad-minded tolerance as far as possible to inspect an open mood, thoughts and things from all students.
guru, said that as the boundless wisdom of tolerance void, it is warm and comfortable wrapped to protect you, as if the sun carpet. Gradually, as you maintain an open and mindfulness, and later I will annotate using a method of increasing concentration of your heart, your negative mentality will slowly ease; you start to feel the body flat, or as the French call etre bien dans sa peau (comfortable feel in the skin), resulting in the liberation and the width and depth of comfort. I call this practice as is the most effective psychological therapy and self-treatment reach.
Third, this practice you do not uncover and reveal the kindness, because it eliminates the hatred in your heart or injury. only to exclude the damage our heart, we can become a useful person to others. by slowly removing the heart of our detest and harm the heart, from the nature of our basic bounty and euthanasia in the heart of launching out into a lukewarm environment, let us be blossoming of true put.
you now know why I said that the practice of meditation is a real peace, it is truly non-invasive, non-violent practice, is the most real, the most important armed heave.
excellent serenity of nature < br> When I teach meditation, I often begins like this: heart home, lay down, relax, focus on every word contains many levels of signification.
to your heart take home, which means attendance through mindfulness, the mind into the realm of safe living. The deeper meaning is to turn the hearts of your inner and rest in Mind. This has in itself the maximum meditation.
down is to the heart from the persistent prison freed, because you know all the grief, alarm and frustration are greed from the additions. at the deep level where you get to know as a result of understanding the nature of mind and confidence can inspire broad and deep and natural tolerance, free your mind of all attachments, so that no heart at ease barriers, in the melt inspired meditation.
Finally, the so-called relaxation is the heart to a broad, relaxed mood. more in-depth point, relax yourself into the real nature of mind, which is among the slumber. This inspired The process, in Tibetan means relaxing in this sense. It is as if the handful of sand fell on the plane; every grain of dirt are automatically settled. This is what you relax in the true way, and let all thought and emotions naturally subside into a state of Mind.
the time when I meditation, Niushu Khenpo of this poem often gives me a lot of inspiration:
in the natural serenity of the big rest!
This exhausted mind,
karma and delusion is too helpless to war,
marble anger in the coarse sea,
the boundless ocean in reincarnation,
in the natural serenity of the huge rest!
most important thing is to easy, as far as feasible to maintain the natural and broad-minded. silently anxiety from your ego in the habit of lurking out, put down all the devotion and relax into your true inside. put your typical, emotional , is thought to control the self, calculate of ice or butter in the sun.
If you are feeling rigid cold, let it be intrusive in the meditation of the sun melted. so calm on the role you have in order to your scattered mind to focus to linger with the righteous thoughts, and in your heart wake up morrow, see (clear seeing) the awakening and the conception of wisdom. you will find all your negate attitude all disarmed, your intrusion dissolved, your muddle slowly disappeared, as the smog dissolve a crowd of you that flawless, absolute self-General of the sky.
sat silent, his body straight nailed, a vow of calm, peace of mind, and let all thoughts and emotions come and to go, what are not persistent.
this realm and it seems like what? Dudjom Rinpoche often said, like a person in the field act hard labor for a entire day at home, sit in front of the bombard darling Yi Gulu chair. He has been working all daytime and kas long asthey want to do has been done; not have to worry about anything, and no as yet completed, he can completely put alongside all worries, satisfaction, ease.
so When you meditation, it is essential to establish the right surroundings inside. all the struggle and the struggle comes from the narrow frame of mind, so creating the right environment that will help you achieve true meditation. When the humor and broad-minded when presented , played a meditation on the birth effortlessly.
Sometimes when I meditation, I do not use any particular method. I just let the peace of mind settle down, particularly by the revelation in, I soon found that his heart home and relax.
I sat quietly, asleep in the nature of mind; I do not doubt if in the When I was in the nature of mind being, the ordinary person the heart vanished. no need to maintain or declare their subsistence; the moment I'm just me. a elementary trust on the show, and do not have to do anything special.
meditation method
If your heart can naturally settle down, you find that you can live in safety and purity of awakening, you do not need to use any method of meditation. In fact, if you have in this state of awakening in these meditation methods are still used, but is self-defeating by. If That said, most of us can not be present to enter that realm. We do not know how to waken the heart, our hearts are so wild scattered, so we need a skillful means, a way to wake up the heart.
I call kas long asin every second, how to face yourself. With this effort, you studied the art of adaptive, ready to become your state of mind.
but remember: This method only method of meditation itself is by no means . When you practice meditation after skillfully in array to fulfill the kind of entirely satisfactory state, that is the real meditation.
Tibet has a very inspiring words: In other words, only to learn meditation meditation practice to familiarize themselves with it. There is a saying: slow-starting. meditation is not before the first heart should quiet down. ordinary, like a candle flame-like heart, thoughts and emotions are pushed by strong winds, flickering flashes, prevalent changes.
only when we put the air around the bougie and settle the blaze to flame permanence; Similarly, only when we put the chaotic state of thoughts and emotions to settle down, we can glimpse nature of mind and living in the nature of mind. On the other hand, once we get into the meditation settled, no rumpus and persecution will greatly reduce its influence.
enchanted Westerners seem to me so-called The most important trait is not sitting capabilities, but in spirit: we may call in the body and the environment to create peaceful conditions, and realized that meditation will naturally arises. environment in order to enter the meditation, awakening the consciousness. body posture will affect the attitude of the heart, mind and body are interrelated, and once inspired posture and attitude, meditation naturally arises.
if you're sitting there, mind and body is not completely proper - for example, are you anxious about or analytic about something - your body will feel uneasy, the problem is relatively easy to produce. Conversely, if your heart is quiet, there are inspiring state, will affect the whole body posture, you can sit comfortably.
Therefore, it is important to let the body's posture and body confidence generated by concentric card together.
next to speak about position, you may be accustomed to using a slightly different position. It comes from the antique Great Perfection (Dzogchen) tradition of teaching, but also on the teacher taught me, and I find it very useful.
Dzogchen view, you see (vision) and your posture should be like a mountain in general. you see, is your understanding of the nature of mind. So, you see can be converted into position, and be inspired by you from sitting out the plenary existence of the expression the core.
Therefore, you should sit as a mountain, like a mountain so solid, strong and magnificent. No matter how the wind hit, no material how dark clouds rolling, mountain, or balanced. like the mound to sit down and let your heart mushroom , bound, fly.
to memorandum this position is to keep your back straight, very signals, solid as a mountain. so, climate (prana) can easily flow through the body's capillaries, the heart can also find it a real break premises. Do not compel anything. the second part of the spine has a natural curve, must remain easeful, but not twisted. head must be comfortable balance in the neck. shoulders and upper body with the power and beauty out of position, they nourish posture equilibrium, but do not compel.
sitting legs crossed. down without double-disk, it is only A greater emphasis on advanced yoga level location. legs crossed that life and necrosis, agreeable and evil, and wisdom, yang and yin, the unity of samsara and nirvana; this be the best state of mind. You can also prefer to sit in a preside, legs relaxed, but his back have to remain straight.
in my meditation tradition, the two eyes must be opened, this is a very important point. started to learn to meditate, if you are susceptible to outside interference, meantime his eyes closed, quietly go to look in will help you concentrate.
presently as you feel the heart quiet, we should gradually open the eyes, you will ascertain that your eyes become extra serene. now look down, by with four 5 degrees snout looked by the front. There is a chief point: Whenever you fretting it is best to decrease the line of sight; each period while you are idle, we should sight dragged.
soon calm down, the outlook began to explicit and shine, and you can freely pulled the line of sight, the eyes look for front of you is insignificant. This is great way to complete the suggested practice.
Dzogchen meditation and stress your eyes must be like the vast sea of: all overthe place, open and boundless. as you can not be separated in general, meditation can inspire vision, the two into an.
Do not gaze at what particular thing; Instead, gently look inside yourself to let your eyes expansion, agreeable more broad, increasingly The more scatter. you will find a line of sight become more vast, but also become more peaceful, compassionate, calm and lightness.
Avalokiteshvara Tibetan transliteration is , re the turns, zig is to look at. means that the Bodhisattva in his mercy saw the need for all living beings. Therefore, you should gently out of compassion meditation emitted, emitted through your eyes, so you line of sight into a vision of compassion, bring an end to ...the place, such as the sea is vast.
opened his eyes for several reasons. First, the approximation is not drowsy. Secondly, the means of meditation is not to escape the world, nor is it to get rid of the world, and fled to a trance state of feeling; the contrary, meditation instantly aids us truly understand ourselves, and with a relationship to life and the appearance world.
Therefore, meditation, you should open your eyes, do not closed. You're not the life excluded, but to maintain an open mind, free and safe. you let all your senses (hearing, seeing, feeling) of natural open, not to conceal, do not pursue their perception. As Dudjom Rinpoche said: can hear voices, these voices is vacant; but in the air, but you can hear the sound. You also have a cloud of ideas generated, these ideas are empty; but in the air, but you know you have thought . Special feel satisfactory Ming (luminosity) way to enlightenment, wisdom we can (wisdom-energy) light are living in mind all circular, heart chakra, through door and mouth to breathe, scattered thoughts can create the the is happy to mimic a Buddha, to admit that you have a Buddha nature, Buddha nature actually inspire you emerge. In fact, you start to esteem you may become a Buddha.
the other hand, you understand that your world is still relatively being. but you have to trust your Buddha nature happy, inspired by you, so you better proficient to accept your shortcomings, compared to the kind and humorous mood to deal with them.
So when you meditatiin season , so that you feel you're the kind of Buddhist self-esteem, self-respect and a muscular sense of humility. I forever mention, you fair let yourself be inspired by this reassurance to be happy: the meditation will naturally from this comprehending and positiveness generated .
three meditation methods
four thousand Buddha taught the Dharma, to tame and soothe negative emotions; In Buddhism, there are many meditation methods. I found that there are three ways in the modern meditation particularly efficacious in the world,beijing massage, everyone can use and benefit. these three methods is the , all in all Buddhist sects in common. that is easily and intently focus on breathing.
respiration is life, it is our most basic wording of life. In Judaism, the breath is called ruah, averaging Spirit of God created all things;
in the teachings of the Buddha, the breath (Sanskrit is called prana) is the to calm down, you also have to tame and train your heart. In our experience anxiety, if we can be single a few minutes, take a deep breath at the peak of quietly and not be able to feel how comfortable? even such simple practice, can be of great help to us.
So when you are meditation, we should consist in ..., natural breathing. put your care on the breath with ease. every breath When everything is put down and lifting attachments. imagine your in the air into the ubiquitous truth. After every breath, then inhale before you will find the attachment disappears, there will be a natural gap.
Ann live in that breach, On alive in the open space. When you exhale indeed, do no focus especially above the suction above, and to persist to live in peace of mind the gap that has opened ashore.
When you exercise, do not do any of that in mind, thinking or self-gossip. Do not continue to keep your heart the comments (; is important that pure moment.
not to focus too much on the breathing; at the peak of the per Nianwu enough attention on your breathing, and the rest is quiet and seventy-five% open to relax. When you breathe scale up of the the clear, it will find you more awake, you have received the photo back to its own scattered mind as a whole.
this time, do not , so that their fusion is a gradual and breathing, as if you are into breathing. slowly, breathing itself, breathing person, and respiratory campaigns into one; confrontation and separation are gone.
you will find this very easy process of mindfulness, will filter your thoughts and emotions. Then, as if you were peeling in general, something to be stripped of the free.
However, some people can not relax or freely Views breathing; even feel almost claustrophobic view of breathing. For these people, the afterward method might be more advantageous.
2. use an object
second way is to gently placed in a heart objects, many people find this method very profitable. any ideas that you have a particularly natural objects, such as a bloom or a crystal can be. However, the cement exposition of the fact of things, such as Buddha, Jesus like, especially if you're on division of the image, will be more mighty. the department living and the truth you interlock attach; because you and the preceptor mentoring relationship, just watching his face, it will be your inspiration from nature and truth in the link attach.
many people for a sculpture of Guru Padmasambhava (understood as his supernatural power, the presentation of Buddhism in Tibet. Tibetans regard him for the Khyentse Rinpoche said: disabilities, he has the pity and knowledge of all Buddhas. He has a virtue that anyone appeal as him, he can instantly give the congratulating; and that they pray to him what he has the ability to satisfy our instant desires. br> So you can picture this sculpture in your eyes and gently focus on your face, Padmasambhava, primarily his eyes. His eyes are deep and calm, about Flaring ambition get busy the photo, put your awareness into the kingdom of no persistent, profound meditation. and then, very silently to put your heart to Padmasambhava.
3. execration
third Mantra is the sound of heart and jump together, which is common in Tibetan Buddhism (Sufi religion, Orthodox Christian and Hindu also used.) mantra is defined as intellect, or are not under the control of the heart Bono, have called the curse.
When you feel nervous, confused or emotionally vulnerable, the mantra can completely alteration your mood, transforming its energy and atmosphere. how could it ? Mantra is the essence of the sound to the sound rendition of the form of truth. subsumtion each sound is the spirit of power, concentration of the truth, the French Jia Chili emitting Buddhas.
breathing nice ride in the heart of energy, and after the whole body, purify the body's chakras. So when you are hymning, you curse the vigor is joined to your breathing and energy, equivalent to a direct training your heart and sophisticated body.
I Mantra is recommended to students curse. In a turbulent and chaotic era, with a strong quiet, manipulation, transformation and protection forces. quiet and very dedicated to narrate the mantra, so that your breathing, mantra and your awareness slowly into one . or in a special way Songzhou, and then after the peace of mind living in the depth of silence Songzhou.
versed even although I have this Famennian life, periodically I still curse the power to surprise. A few years antecedent, I host a meditation camp in Lyon, France, a aggregate of three hundred people heeded, mostly housewives and psychotherapist. I have been teaching all day, but most of the time they seemed to be narrated to me, no euthanasia to query answers, one by one.
nightfall, I collapsed the whole person, the whole room full of dull atmosphere. So, I read this curse I just said. I was very startled, even a mantra such power; within minutes, I feel more vigorous, the circling atmosphere has changed, all the audience appeared to light up and attractive. This experience repeatedly and anew in my body, so I know it is by no means occasional fashion ...