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  The Myths of Meditation: Why It's So Hard to Begin
  In the midst of crisis, meditation helps to manage anxiety. Yet it remains a mystery to many. Lori Landau shines a light on the myths and helps align our ability to meditate with our desire.
  by lorilan / on Mar 19, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “meditation practice”

 

• What is suffering?

  
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  In cultivating compassion we’re responding, with kindness, to the suffering we encounter in life — especially others’ suffering. And the essence of compassion is wishing that beings be free from suffering. But what do we mean by suffering? There’s an unfortunate tendency for us to think of suffering in grand ...
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• Avoiding cruelty, the “far enemy” of compassion Day 30)

  
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  Yesterday I wrote about the complexities of the “near enemy” of compassion, which is the grief that arises from attachment. So we might feel bad when we see someone suffering, but not actually have any empathy for them. That’s not compassion. It’s “grief” at having our normal experience disrupted by ...
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• Retailers: Meditation Provides You A Key To More Sales

  
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  I used to pride myself on how busy I was when I worked retail. Four Cokes, a couple of iced teas, and a couple of sugary snacks kept me pumping sales. I was the bomb . I kept this up for most of my professional life, whether I was speaking in front of thousands of retailers, counseling a franchisee, or doing a ...
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• Cultivating self-compassion (Day 29)

  
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  The other week I was walking to work after it had rained hard all night. The sidewalks and roads were covered with worms, who like to migrate when the weather is wet (no, it’s not because they would drown in their tunnels ). Now, almost exactly twenty years ago I made a promise to myself that I wouldn’t walk ...
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• Sorrow is failed compassion (Day 28)

  
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  I’ve had more people asking me about the “near enemy” of compassion. So here goes… The “near enemy” is, by definition, something you might confuse with compassion. You might think you were cultivating compassion but were actually cultivating something else, in the same way that you might water and care ...
  2 weeks ago

• Spontaneous compassion is inherent to us all (Day 27)

  
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  Talking about cultivating or developing compassion can have the unfortunate side-effect of giving us the idea that compassion is something we don’t have, and need to create. Actually, the words cultivate and develop are meant to imply that we already have compassion as a natural attribute, and that what we need to ...
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• Cultivating compassion

  
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  There are four related dimensions of lovingkindness, together called the “divine abodes,” or Brahmaviharas. These four are (1) lovingkindness itself, (2) compassion, (3) appreciation, and (4) even-minded love. I devoted the first quarter of our 100 Days to lovingkindness, and I’m going to write about ...
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• Lovingkindness as a path to awakening (Day 25)

  
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  The Buddha’s recorded as having said : For one who mindfully develops Boundless loving-kindness Seeing the destruction of clinging, The fetters are worn away. If with an uncorrupted mind He pervades just one being With loving kindly thoughts, He makes some merit thereby. But a noble one produces An abundance of ...
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• Breaking the boundaries (Day 24)

  
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  Yesterday I wrote about how, in the fifth stage of the development of lovingkindness practice where we’re cultivating metta for all beings, it’s enough simply to sense the space around you and to allow that space to be filled with kindness. Your mind is filled with kindness. Your mind is aware of the space around ...
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• The expansive mind of lovingkindness (Day 23)

  
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  The Buddha’s instructions on lovingkindness — at least those that have been passed on to us — don’t include the five stages of cultivating lovingkindness for oneself, the friend, the “neutral person,” the person we have difficulty with, and then all beings. There are some scattered instructions about ...
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• The tender heart of lovingkindness (Day 22)

  
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  In previous posts I’ve suggested an approach to cultivating lovingkindness that begins with contacting our innate lovingkindness. Now the expression “contacting our innate lovingkindness” is a problem for many people, because they look inside themselves, don’t see anything at that moment that they could call ...
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• Buddhism, wealth, and happiness

  
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  Be forewarned. You’re going to see a bunch of headlines soon like this one from Business Week: Economists Nail It: You Can Never Be Too Rich . The Business Week post is rather breathless: “I just spoke with Justin Wolfers, co-author of a short but important new paper that concludes the more money you have, on ...
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• A Daily Meditation Mantra Practice

  
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  When I first learned The Secret a year ago, I was encouraged to begin a daily meditation practice . I had never meditated, so I started with just three minutes a day. I didnt know how to meditate, so I began by taking a suggestion made in The Secret . The book recommends repeating a mantra that goes as ...
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• Lovingkindness: when the rubber hits the road (Day 21)

  
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  When the rubber hits the road is a great time to practice lovingkindness, and I mean literal rubber and a literal road. There’s a lot of irritation involved in driving, right up to the extreme of road rage. It can be irritating to be in slow traffic, or busy traffic, or to be cut off, or to be held up by ...
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• Walking with love (Day 20)

  
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  When I walk, I usually do a “walking lovingkindness” practice. Since it takes me 15 minutes to walk to work and another 15 to walk home again, I get a “bonus” 30 minutes of meditation on the days I don’t have to drive. So even if I only manage 30 minutes of sitting practice I end up meditating for an hour, ...
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• Dealing with guilt and shame (Day 19)

  
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  People use the words “guilt” and “shame” in different ways. I use “shame” to translate the Buddhist word “hiri” and see guilt as being something entirely different. And I think an awareness of this difference is very important to recognize when we’re trying to live with more kindness. In Buddhist ...
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• When you have trouble being kind to yourself (Day 18)

  
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  Sangharakshita, the founder of the Triratna Buddhist Order and Triratna Buddhist Community, is asked by Ratnaguna in this video from (I think) 1991 why some of us have difficulties feeling kindness towards ourselves, and what we can do about it. PS Feel free to join our Google+ 100 Day Community , where people are ...
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• Speak kindly to yourself

  
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  The other day I found myself having one of those odd, but common, daydreams where I was complaining to one friend about another friend. I was telling him about a situation where this third party was emotionally cutting me off. The conversation went on for a minute or so, and then I slipped from my daydream back into a ...
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• Cocooned in lovingkindness

  
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  We’re almost two weeks into this 100 Days of Lovingkindness, but even after just five or six days the quality of my experience was radically different from usual. I’ve felt considerably happier than I normally do. Blissfully happy, often. I’ve been much more patient with my children. I’ve been buffered from ...
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• Breathing with love (Day 12)

  
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  Do you find it a bit much doing lovingkindness practice every day? Do you feel the need to stay in balance by doing other practices, like mindfulness of breathing? I don’t blame you! In our last special project, which was to meditate for 100 days (the 100 Day Meditation Challenge) we got about a week into it and ...
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