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 Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 4:34 pm
Well, I have realized that with my meditation, I have been anger to withhold anger. But by the end of this week, I have found that I have gotten somehwat short-tempered and easy to aggrivate. Is it because I am angry? And is there a way to get this anger out? Thanks in advance biggrin
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:42 pm
I would say to write it down and then make a big ceremony of destroying the paper it was written on.
that way you're not hurting anyone, and you get rid of your anger.
then again, I'm not that great of a buddhist.
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Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:03 am
That's true. I've actually found a way to do it. Before I meditate at night, I will "talk" to Buddha, the Siddhrarta Gaurma? (sp?) And kinda let my emotions out. And then when I'm done, I meditate, and find it easier biggrin
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Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 4:27 pm
mazuac That's true. I've actually found a way to do it. Before I meditate at night, I will "talk" to Buddha, the Siddhrarta Gaurma? (sp?) And kinda let my emotions out. And then when I'm done, I meditate, and find it easier biggrin I'm glad this helps you! "Confession" prior to meditation or rituals is common in many Buddhist sects, though I'm not in the habit.
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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 3:22 pm
Well, until I get better at maintaining this kind of life, I will do it until I feel I am strong enough I can control my actions. And I am proud of myself, I almost meditated for 15 minutes last night (until my dad interrupted)
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 7:40 pm
mazuac Well, until I get better at maintaining this kind of life, I will do it until I feel I am strong enough I can control my actions. And I am proud of myself, I almost meditated for 15 minutes last night (until my dad interrupted) Hey, 15 minutes is a lot more than many of the fidgety folks can do! With the twin evils of "business and pleasure" plaguing me of late, I've seldom had the time and will power to meditate for 15 minutes at a sitting for the past few months xp
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:17 am
From my reading and understandings, frequently in Zen there are teachings that mention meditation such as this:
You clean. You sweep, or clean your room, or the dishes, or whatever.
and as you do this, you say, "I am cleaning out the [in your case] anger in my mind..." and so on and so forth.
This may help.
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Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 8:39 am
Ahh, thanks biggrin I will try it out biggrin
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Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 9:50 pm
Anything therapeutic works in the style of Zen writing that Ningyou mentioned works. (That's how we get famous books like "The Zen of Motorcycle Repair"). Plus, if what you're doing is constructive, it's an added bonus!
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Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 8:56 pm
mazuac Well, I have realized that with my meditation, I have been anger to withhold anger. But by the end of this week, I have found that I have gotten somehwat short-tempered and easy to aggrivate. Is it because I am angry? And is there a way to get this anger out? Thanks in advance biggrin Have you tried getting your own personal blog (doesn't matter which kind) and just typing it all down? I write in my own, and it helps me release the angry energy and after that, I'm not so mad anymore. smile
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 3:18 pm
mazuac Well, until I get better at maintaining this kind of life, I will do it until I feel I am strong enough I can control my actions. And I am proud of myself, I almost meditated for 15 minutes last night (until my dad interrupted) I'm sorry, I've got to nit-pick this. Pride. The purpose of meditation (as least as I've always heard it) or perhaps my general outlook on it is to calm your mind. It provides practice for stepping back out of your ego-self, and examining things as they really are. Now pride, that's the ego-self coming right back in saying "Hey, I really did that!" Which is a dangerous trick of the ego-self. Don't let pride invade your practice. The very practice of Buddhism involves the elimination of pride, or the ego-self. It isn't just pretty robes, shaved heads, and weird sitting positions. So, you might take some time to meditate on the existence of the notion of 'self.' Thanks. smile
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Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 7:22 pm
Well, if we're speaking on meditation:
It's actually a practice I personally picked up during my time as a pagan.
I do it in various forms: prayer (after I returned to christianity), a gentle, repetitive movement (such as sweeping, as mentioned above), or the popular yoga form - with, perhaps, one difference.
As a pagan, instead of attempting to blank my mind, I would sit in (lotus?) position and imagine the natural energy of mother earth as a gentle light, slowly but surely filling me with each inhaling breath, pushing out all the shadowy darkness of stress and bad thoughts with each exhale.
Once I felt that there was only a gentle rhythm of earth's energy humming through me, I then let my mind rest (being already blank at this point) a few moments. Whenever I felt the time was right, I would thank the earth for cleansing me, and let go of the light which I imagined was running through me.
Still works to this day, despite what my beliefs might be today or tomorrow.
And who knows? Maybe that energy is of the earth. Maybe it's of God. Maybe it's of God through Earth.
Either way, it's healing, and relaxing.
And that's all that matters.
When I'm angry, but don't have time or place for full meditation?
I simply call on the imagery and memory of the feeling of a full meditation.
Kind of like counting to ten, in a way.
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 7:39 pm
Although it's not very productive, I'll usually just sit down and just let something else calm me down, like watching TV or playing a video game.
I hate to say it, but I've never been able to meditate in my life... All the descriptions I've read on how to meditate either confuse me or trying them just makes me bored and tired...
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:01 am
mazuac Well, until I get better at maintaining this kind of life, I will do it until I feel I am strong enough I can control my actions. And I am proud of myself, I almost meditated for 15 minutes last night (until my dad interrupted)
And Yukio-Vil- I think you're a better Buddhist than you think you are. heart I think that a suprising amount of people tend to underestimate themselves way too often.
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