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Meditation

Meditation will lead you to access the natural core of strength that lies at the centre of your being. It permits a connection to your inner source, allowing the release of the things and roles you are caught in; work, parenting, concerns, and any other duties and responsibilities. Happiness, health and success are all locked within, anxiously awaiting release. Trying to find happiness outside ourselves, only leads to expectations and frustration. The more attention given to objects and relationships as the source of happiness, the more we are frustrated, lose control and experience anger and injury to our mind. Your emotions affect your health, and stress exacts a terrible toll on your body. Meditation results in improvements in your overall well being. It will help each individual find peace and wisdom from within. The practice of meditation and mindfulness will support the individual in taking those qualities into the world. Learn to meditate now and take control of your life by reducing stress, anger and frustration. Discover true happiness today.

 

The Ideal Meditation Method.

Many people turn to meditation because of dissatisfaction with life due to unhappiness, lack of success or bad health. This motivation to ease tensions or cope with anxieties is only the first step and many meditation methods will provide relief on this worldly level. The beauty of the Dhammakaya method is that it leads directly upwards from this plane to more and more refined and purer levels of awareness. This method does not require blind faith. You do not even have to be a follower of Buddhism to benefit from it. It is a method for training the mind to become concentrated and keenly aware, and to focus inward at

the centre of the body. With practice, people who use this method will encounter new experiences for themselves and will develop a greater confidence. The effectiveness of the Dhammakaya approach derives from focusing attention to the centre of the body and combining three meditation techniques simultaneously. Meditators often debate the efficacy  of concentration versus light. The Dhammakaya method employs elements of both. Higher and higher levels of concentration enable insight to progress from more Right Understanding to super mundane Right Wisdom. The main advantages of the Dhammakaya method are as follows.It will help to reduce agitation of the mind as it will help to anchor the mind in tranquility and calmness. It will reduce defilements and craving which dull, darken and sadden the mind. It will help one develop mindfulness, clear comprehension, and wisdom.

 

A concentrated and calm mind enables a person to analyze and solve problems correctly and in a precise manner.  Meditation also improves one’s physical and mental health. Those who come into contact with a healthy person need not suffer from the poor mentality of that person. On the other hand, there will be peace in society due to an increase in the number of people having their verbal and bodily actions in accordance with the Dhamma.Meditation with morality as a basis, will yield the highest benefits to those who practice it. When the store of merits through the Dhamma practice supersedes the demerits, the benefits from those merits will be realised first. Therefore, those who always practice meditation and possess good ethical conduct will experience joy and happiness in their worldly and spiritual lives.                        

Power of Meditation

Meditation is a technique of mind training which allows us to better focus it.  Everyone is familiar with meditation, even if not by name, because it is something which we already do in everyday life. It allows us to concentrate on the task at hand.  However the depth of such meditation is superficial as the events around us soon rob us of our attention and we lose concentration. The mind that wanders outside is the source of all types of suffering.  By deepening our meditation until our mind comes to a standstill, we can unlock the potential and the unused ability within. During meditation we maintain a balance of mindfulness and happiness for ourselves which bring contentment and a direction to our life that is not possible through any other technique.  It is not difficult to learn to meditate because it builds on skills and abilities we already have. By developing our meditation formally, we can free our mind of unwanted thoughts, allowing it to come to a standstill, at which point the depth of concentration is increased. 

The only difficulty with meditation is that we have to do it by our own efforts as no one else can do it for us. Furthermore, we will never become skilled by just talking or reading about it.  To be successful  we must  make an effort to as expertise will only come about by practice. Thus we must rely on our own self discipline to integrate meditation into our daily routine. Progress in meditation is gradual as reversing the mental habits of a lifetime do not happen overnight. Consistent diligence is rewarded by success in the long term.  In answer to the question “Why meditate?”. The obvious importance of meditation is that it serves as the most direct and practical means to solve health problems. Several illnesses such as stress, depression and insomnia can be improved by meditation which helps to re-balance the body and mind. It will also help to speed up the recovery from an illness. However it is only a minority who meditate due to a problem. It is never too early to start meditating as many children have discovered around the world. The majority of people meditate because they want to improve or enrich themselves, their personality or their lifestyle in the spiritual dimension. To this end meditation can enhance ones potential for study, sporting performance, self confidence and decision taking.  Beyond this, are those who meditate with a deeper spiritual vocation to learn more about themselves and to explore the eternal questions of life and the world itself.


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