They look like they are so easy to overcome. Its sad. I think one could add a few more fears though, and what is easy to some may not be to others. As for meditation, It seems to be about occupying ones attention. The best way to this is to use ones attention to monitor the activity of the brain without engaging the brain.This allows for thoughts to come, be noted and then to past, which in turns allows for more thoughts to be exposed in lesser depth. Soon deep inner sub conscience thoughts begin to arise. One learns by paying attention to the brain that the brain and the attention are separate. We can't control the brain, we can only control the attention. So what is the brain if it is running on its own? More importantly thoughts are not initiated by us, so we are not thoughts. We are only our attention. Everything else is just noise. getting out of the noise through the use of attention allows a key separation to occur. Emotions are not in us but in our brain, so they become removed. People are simply things to keep our brain entertained, people are kept in our lives for emotional needs. We have now disconnected from emotions so there is no need for people. hence the meditation schools in the mountain. It is the turning point for most, to let go and admit that their loved ones are simply a distraction for their attention. One must let go, most cant out of fear. as they know they will loose the ability to miss people. and will have no motivationneed to be around people Those who let go have no bounds. Their brain is an organ it is not them. There attention learns how to manipulate the brain. Miss lust? well dial it up. want love or happiness command it. Other people are not needed. Nothing is needed. Only food. Love is not something that others give you, it is something you yourself allow your self to experience. It has little to do with another party. The amazing part here is that our brains can be changed in this way. Imagine having "no" thoughts leads to more happiness. So why all the buzzing in our heads? To keep us occupied ? to keep us dependant on one another? To scare us from "danger"? The brain is a program dipped in a solution of hormones that effects conductivity of electrical pulses. Attention is the disk operating system. Since windows came out DOS has been hidden. Situations allow us to modify these hormones to bring on happiness. But if we can modify the solutions we dont really need the "situation". It is hard to understand or appreciate this without looking in to Quantum Physics. The only reason we are alive is out of fear of being dead. But it just may be that life is a chore of the dead.
I think it's a personal choice for everybody to feel relaxed. When having a terrible day it's best for me to dive into the gym. I can't do any yoga or mind-stuff, I just need to workout in the gym or doing some cycling.
I am not really technosavvy Is there somewhere to grab audio files of budhist, zen, or meditation lectures to listen to? I guess they are podcasts?
So I started meditating after viewing this thread a month ago. So far some things I've noticed.. coming from a natural born skeptic - I don't hesitate my entries nearly as much. I don't find myself questioning my decisions nearly as much trash talking my ability (e.g.. "don't take this trade, you don't know what you're doing", "you're going to loose money dummy!") -PATIENCE improved A LOT.. -Much more accepting of my losses and letting go of the ego's drive to WIN. -Can concentrate better allowing myself to be be more in tune with my mind in the moment -Overall in a better mood, regardless of how my trading went for the day Want to say thanks for all that contributing in this thread... I can honestly say so far it's changed my life for the better. I'll keep you updated as months go on in my progress.
Don't listen anything outside the 4 Main Sampradays of our Universe!Or you are risking to encounter cheaters and scams.
thanks for the advice. Do you have any examples of these scams? Just so as to know how far the scammers are willing to go, and what methods they use.
They can go very far.So far as to announce themselves as Gods.There was a meeting once with about 200 of Jesuses Christs on it. Osho Rajneesh and Sai Baba are from the same opera.Scoundrels posing themselves Gods.Same thing with any sort Rishi`s and Maharishi`s.All Rishi`s stay in Saptarishi-graha,what you can observe in the Sky as Ursa Major The Real Knowledge is considered to be handed down via Parampara only,in one of the authoritative Sampradays, which are 4 in our particular Universe.Everything outside of those 4 is bluff and scam. Here is how a "branch" of one of the authoritative Sampradaya(Sri Sampradaya,or Lakshmi Sampraday)looks like:
They can go very far.So far as to announce themselves as Gods.There was a meeting once with about 200 of Jesus` Christs on it. Osho Rajneesh and Sai Baba are from the same opera.Scoundrels posing themselves Gods.Same thing with any sort Rishi`s and Maharishi`s.All Rishi`s stay in Saptarishi-graha,what you can observe in the Sky as Ursa Major. The Real Knowledge is considered to be handed down via Parampara only,in one of the authoritative Sampradays, which are 4 in our particular Universe.Everything outside of those 4 is bluff and scam. Here is how a "branch" of one of the authoritative Sampradaya(Sri Sampradaya,or Lakshmi Sampraday)looks like: