--- In [email protected], Maria Lopez <flordeloto@...> wrote:
>
> Steve;
> Â
> I don't know whether if you are familiar with the meditation book "The
> Blooming Of A Lotus" by TNH. This was my very first introduction into
> meditation. I recommend it to everyone who is not familiar with the
> subject. It's a book of a range of exercises with the purpose of healing
> and transformation. They are guided meditations to better to be done in a
> sangha. Amongst the exercises there are some pretty good visualisation
> over getting old, sickness, death, impermanence.....Amongst this
> visualisations there is one very moving and that is the one of visualisation
> of seeing first one as a five years old child....then one father as five
> years old....then one mother as five years old...This meditation have
> brought tears to all of us who have done for first time. It was amazing the
> first time we did this one during a retreat with my sangha. I recall it as
> amongst the most moving experience had with the sangha at that time. Do
> mind that
> the Scotts are very reserve people and that seeing them expressing
> themselves in such courageous openness was an overwhelming experience.  Â
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> Agree with you Steve and we have to be opened as different ways of meditation
> are for different purposes. For instance I entered a couple of years ago
> into just sitting down. This could be well change at any time. There is
> no better or worse methods here but just whatever help us to be in contact
> with reality at different periods, moments in our lives.
> Â
> MaykaÂ
> Â
>
> Thank you, Mayka. I will look up The Blooming of The Lotus, by Thich Nhat
> Hanh. I do enjoy his books.
Steve
>
>
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