what is also good to think while meditating,i like to thing about mountains,or how im going to achieve something in this meaningless life.
Can someone gives me some tips what to think while meditating
What are you thinking while meditating?
What are you thinking while meditating?
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your not supposed to be thinking about anything while meditating unless your practicing some kind of samatha meditation.
Take care of mindfulness and mindfulness will take care of you.
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Thinking will be even very subtle always present, just do not follow it, and let it go again. Observe the process if you are aware that you are thinking.
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Re: What are you thinking while meditating?
Sometimes I inwardly recite a reflection on a specific theme, such as metta would be the Karaniya Metta Sutta, or may I abide in well being...
or even the Buddhas advise to rahula on the elements when I have a bout of anger...
There are also quotes I use from teachers.
these are useful to help reflect upon the teaching and internalise these tools for when they are needed.
but I quite like the image you use, would be useful if feeling trapped in a city or an environment to help set the troubles aside for a session.
although be cautious as to how you use that.
or even the Buddhas advise to rahula on the elements when I have a bout of anger...
There are also quotes I use from teachers.
these are useful to help reflect upon the teaching and internalise these tools for when they are needed.
but I quite like the image you use, would be useful if feeling trapped in a city or an environment to help set the troubles aside for a session.
although be cautious as to how you use that.
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
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In meditation, the first step is to clear the mind and to purify and let the fog settle like sediment settles in a clouded pond. It takes time and, if you "think" then the sediment clouds the pond again just like it would if you move around in the water. Keep still and clear all thoughts.
Once the fog is cleared and the "pond" is clear, I.E. the mind is clear, then you move onto "thinking" about a single one thing that you want to understand and/or develop. For instance in Metta meditation you develop loving-kindness and there are many steps of what to think about and how to go about doing that in general practice.
Once the fog is cleared and the "pond" is clear, I.E. the mind is clear, then you move onto "thinking" about a single one thing that you want to understand and/or develop. For instance in Metta meditation you develop loving-kindness and there are many steps of what to think about and how to go about doing that in general practice.
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"breath"Buddha wrote:what is also good to think while meditating,i like to thing about mountains,or how im going to achieve something in this meaningless life.
Can someone gives me some tips what to think while meditating
or, "lovingness."
Or simply, "focus."
A seed sleeps in soil.
It's cold and alone, hopeless.
Until it blooms above.
It's cold and alone, hopeless.
Until it blooms above.
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What am I thinking while meditating?
All sorts of things, but the thoughts arise spontaneously, and naturally dissipate.
All sorts of things, but the thoughts arise spontaneously, and naturally dissipate.
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Hi Buddha,
lately I have been experimenting with 'internal self-guided meditation'. Instead of trying to let go of all thinking straight away, i use it, especially early on in the sitting. Alot of the thinking consists of relevant lines from the suttas (for example, the anapanasati section of the satipatthana sutta), as well as quotes from respected teachers & guides. But if the mind begins to calm down, I then can let go of thinking more and more, moving towards 'silent witnessing'. But that is a longer-term project for me.
manas
lately I have been experimenting with 'internal self-guided meditation'. Instead of trying to let go of all thinking straight away, i use it, especially early on in the sitting. Alot of the thinking consists of relevant lines from the suttas (for example, the anapanasati section of the satipatthana sutta), as well as quotes from respected teachers & guides. But if the mind begins to calm down, I then can let go of thinking more and more, moving towards 'silent witnessing'. But that is a longer-term project for me.
manas
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Think about being in the present moment in this "Meaningless life"
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Preferably, not at all. Thinking sucks.
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Usually nothing at all
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So what is the benefit? Because, by way of the simile of the infant, it seems that lack of thinking as meditative attainment means infants are masterful meditators, and that putting them in a box would maintain their mastery. But this is absurd; so, of what benefit is this lack of thought, mentioned by so many?
Even the first jhana has thought...
Even the first jhana has thought...
- "And how is it, bhikkhus, that by protecting oneself one protects others? By the pursuit, development, and cultivation of the four establishments of mindfulness. It is in such a way that by protecting oneself one protects others.
"And how is it, bhikkhus, that by protecting others one protects oneself? By patience, harmlessness, goodwill, and sympathy. It is in such a way that by protecting others one protects oneself.
- Sedaka Sutta [SN 47.19]
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The suttas do talk about the benefits of cutting off distractive thinking and stilling thought.daverupa wrote:So what is the benefit? Because, by way of the simile of the infant, it seems that lack of thinking as meditative attainment means infants are masterful meditators, and that putting them in a box would maintain their mastery. But this is absurd; so, of what benefit is this lack of thought, mentioned by so many?
Even the first jhana has thought...
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"When one thing is practiced & pursued, ignorance is abandoned, clear knowing arises, the conceit 'I am' is abandoned, latent tendencies are uprooted, fetters are abandoned. Which one thing? Mindfulness immersed in the body." -AN 1.230