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Akanishi Makoto Vice Captain
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 Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 2:34 pm
Seijuro of the Jade Sky I meditate about once a week. I use it as a way to relieve the immense stress of high school. and of college, and parents... and car payments, and work ... and this... and that... the list can go on and on.
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Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 3:27 pm
Unfortunately I'm lucky to get any time to meditate, period. However this, I believe, is currently for no other reason than my lack of discipline. Fortunately I'm lucky in that one of the humanities teachers at my school is Buddhist and leads weekly meditation sessions that I plan on beginning to attend this coming week (They occur every Tuesday). Of course 20 minutes a week (the length of the sessions), isn't even close to enough time for any serious buddhist (or for that matter any serious meditation practitioner) to get much out of it, but I don't plan on using that as my only time to meditate.
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Akanishi Makoto Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 7:45 pm
I'll tell you what I tell everyone who points out the time in which they meditate: Quality over quantity. It could take 10 minutes or 200 lives to be enlightened, depending on the person and their personal attachments.
Just as death can come at any moment, the cessation of the self can come just as quickly.
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Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 10:33 pm
Hmm, I'm not very familiar w/ meditating in general. I've had many friends meditate, but I don't know exactly why people meditate, how they meditate and/or if anyone can meditate. Anyone game on answering? ninja
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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 9:10 pm
I'd recommend you check out "Meditation for Dummies". As for "I don't know if anyone can meditate", it isn't some special ability or something. Meditation isn't making the mind blank, thats almost impossible (although it can occasionally be a neat side-effect), most of the time I meditate for three reasons, 1 it allows an extreme degree of focus on an issue, 2 once you are sitting still its easier to pay attention to the world around you, and at least for me my sense sharpen immensely (its common for me to hear cars and people 5 or 6 blocks away when I'm engaged in this form of meditation!), and three, to "become freinds with yourself", basically, in order to reach enlightenment, and cease strong emotions, you need to know yourself better than anyone, including yourself (I know that probably makes no sense, but I don't really know any other way to explain it).
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Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 9:44 pm
Wow, okay, I'll try to get to that, thanks for answering my question. 3nodding
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Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 7:37 am
I've just joined the meditation society at University, and so I should now do it alot more.
I find it always helps to do it in a group (for example, for "Oh Mani Padme Hun", if I'm on my own I find it difficult to generate the feeling, but when someone is leading, i find it alot easier)
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 11:48 am
Just thought I'd point out that the chant is "Ohm Mane Padme Hum", not "Oh Mani Padme Hun".
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 5:21 pm
Ah, well. The spelling doesn't really matter that much - it's the chanting and focus that counts.
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 5:50 pm
Lets see... three times a day for a half a hour....
3*30=90
90/60=1.5
So that a hour and a half... hehehe a hour and a half each day. 3nodding
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Akanishi Makoto Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:01 pm
Iarecarzy Lets see... three times a day for a half a hour.... 3*30=90 90/60=1.5 So that a hour and a half... hehehe a hour and a half each day. 3nodding The kids got me beat. domokun
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:39 pm
Akanishi Makoto Iarecarzy Lets see... three times a day for a half a hour.... 3*30=90 90/60=1.5 So that a hour and a half... hehehe a hour and a half each day. 3nodding The kids got me beat. domokun I just like to meditate... I have a lot of spare quite time. Plus, it is the most realzing thing ever... I like to do it for a long time before I take a big test.
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Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 6:28 am
As some of the others have said: I don't meditate as often as I'd like to. I'm lucky whenever I can. When I do have a chance, it's normally a quick session of focusing on my breathing, in between classes or meetings. xd
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Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 8:10 am
Zoutout Ah, well. The spelling doesn't really matter that much - it's the chanting and focus that counts. I just want to point out Zoot, that there's a difference between meditation and chanting, which is what you're reffering to. Meditation is the practice of understanding your mind, which is probably a very poor explanation, although coming from someone who is relatively new at this stuff, what do you expect? Whereas chanting and Mantram recitation is the practice of chanting certain words or phrases in order to express devotion to a certain Boddhisattva, and or the Dharma in general.
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Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:37 am
Merlin the White Zoutout Ah, well. The spelling doesn't really matter that much - it's the chanting and focus that counts. I just want to point out Zoot, that there's a difference between meditation and chanting, which is what you're reffering to. Meditation is the practice of understanding your mind, which is probably a very poor explanation, although coming from someone who is relatively new at this stuff, what do you expect? Whereas chanting and Mantram recitation is the practice of chanting certain words or phrases in order to express devotion to a certain Boddhisattva, and or the Dharma in general. Really? I thought it was a means to help you focus on understanding aspects of your mind better. Oh, well. The Metta Bhavna I'm doing in the meetings at the moment doesn't involve changintg anyway.
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