Marsha: Why do I so often mention mindfulness & meditation and "agrees with my experience"? Here is two simple paragraphs from 'Mindfulness in Plain English' that might explain my persistence:
"Vipassana is a form of mental training that will teach you to experience the world in an entirely new way. You will learn for the first time what is truly happening to you, around you and within you. It is a process of self discovery, a participatory investigation in which you observe your own experiences while participating in them, and as they occur. The practice must be approached with this attitude. "Never mind what I have been taught. Forget about theories and prejudgments and stereotypes. I want to understand the true nature of life. I want to know what this experience of being alive really is. I want to apprehend the true and deepest qualities of life, and I don't want to just accept somebody else's explanation. I want to see it for myself." If you pursue your meditation practice with this attitude, you will succeed. You'll find yourself observing things objectively, exactly as they are -- flowing and changing from moment to moment. Life then takes on an unbelievable richness which cannot be described. It has to be experienced." Marsha: I hope you will forgive the above use of the word 'objectively' and replace it with 'directly'. RMP wrote "Remember that the central reality of the MOQ is not an object or a subject or anything else. It is understood by direct experience only and not by reasoning of any kind." The practice of meditation/mindfulness is the pursuit of Quality, both Dynamic and static, beyond the limitations of language. It does not end the appreciation of language or intellect or static patterns, it actually enhances the wisdom associated the appreciation. Anyways... On Aug 31, 2013, at 6:31 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings, > > RMP WROTE: > > "The purpose of mystic meditation is not to remove oneself from experience > but to bring one's self closer to it by eliminating stale, confusing, static, > intellectual attachments of the past. " > (LILA, Chapter 9) > > Marsha: > Why bother with meditation? > > > "Meditation is not easy. It takes time and it takes energy. It also takes > grit, determination and discipline. It requires a host of personal qualities > which we normally regard as unpleasant and which we like to avoid whenever > possible. We can sum it all up in the American word 'gumption'. Meditation > takes 'gumption'. It is certainly a great deal easier just to kick back and > watch television. So why bother? Why waste all that time and energy when you > could be out enjoying yourself? Why bother? Simple. Because you are human. > And just because of the simple fact that you are human, you find yourself > heir to an inherent unsatisfactoriness in life which simply will not go away. > You can suppress it from your awareness for a time. You can distract yourself > for hours on end, but it always comes back--usually when you least expect it. > All of a sudden, seemingly out of the blue, you sit up, take stock, and > realize your actual situation in life." > > > http://www.urbandharma.org/pdf/mindfulness_in_plain_english.pdf > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
