How about one line? There's an old quote from a farmer
"Sometimes I sits and thinks. Sometimes I just sits."
Describe Meditation in one sentence
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Not turning away.
Not twice, not three times, not once,
the wheel is turning.
the wheel is turning.
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tiltbillings wrote:increased concentration, mindfulness and insight.Collective wrote:What then does this achieve?Bhikkhu Pesala wrote:“Be mindful of each and every mental and physical phenomenon throughout the entire day, without a break.” (Chanmyay Sayādaw U Janaka)
Yeah ~ you know .... exactly what the Buddha taught.
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
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"Please don't meditate".
It has been the misfortune (not, as these gentlemen think it, the glory) of this age that everything is to be discussed. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France.
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"The Optimization of the Mind."
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Karma Dondrup Tashi wrote:"Please don't meditate".
Ha! This one almost slipped past me as a meaningless attempt at paradox.
As I moved on to the next post I saw what it meant. Very good.
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Meditation, in the Buddhist context, consists of right effort, right mindfulness and right concentration which are the 3 factors of the Noble Eightfold Path leading to total liberation.
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Meditation is cultivation of the mind.
Short and simple.
Metta -smokey
Short and simple.
Metta -smokey
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Meditation is a skillful tool that helps a practitioner find and then follow the Noble Eightfold Path.
Regards: AdvaitaJ
Regards: AdvaitaJ
The birds have vanished down the sky. Now the last cloud drains away.
We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains. Li Bai
We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains. Li Bai
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iiiiiiiiiin.......should I cook the tomatoes first?...[back to the breath]....oooooouuuuuut......
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adeh wrote:iiiiiiiiiin.......should I cook the tomatoes first?...[back to the breath]....oooooouuuuuut......
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iiiiiiiiiin.......should I cook the tomatoes first?...[back to the breath]....oooooouuuuuut......no! onions first....iiiiiiiiiin
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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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He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
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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He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
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I like it!adeh wrote:iiiiiiiiiin.......should I cook the tomatoes first?...[back to the breath]....oooooouuuuuut......
Although I would agree with Manapa - fry the onions lightly in some oil until they go soft first, or else they might be a bit crunchy
"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn