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| ====== Meditation ====== | ====== Meditation ====== | ||
| - | I'm a big proponent of meditation. | ||
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| ===== What is Meditation? ===== | ===== What is Meditation? ===== | ||
| It's a brain training technique. You sit comfortably and observe your breath. After a bit you'll notice that your mind has wandered and you're thinking about something that's not your breath. You let that thought go and return to watching your breath. | It's a brain training technique. You sit comfortably and observe your breath. After a bit you'll notice that your mind has wandered and you're thinking about something that's not your breath. You let that thought go and return to watching your breath. | ||
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| ===== Details ===== | ===== Details ===== | ||
| - | * [[Advice on Meditation]] | + | * [[Meditation |
| * [[Advice for Beginners]] | * [[Advice for Beginners]] | ||
| * [[My Meditation Journey]] | * [[My Meditation Journey]] | ||
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| * ...which might be never cause I've got a bit of an organizational issue. | * ...which might be never cause I've got a bit of an organizational issue. | ||
| + | ===== Meditation and Buddhism ===== | ||
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| + | You don't have to believe in reincarnation or karma to recognize that 2500+ years ago a guy in India saw some basic realities of the human condition and came up with a set of teachings that has put countless others on the path to something better. | ||
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| + | Many others have recognized those same basic truths about human nature but AFAIK no one else left us instructions for getting out of the ruts that our animal brains dig for us. | ||
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