Meditation: Why bother?
Gillar min bok Mindfulness, den är tänkvärd. Och eftersom min blogg är lite som en dagbok för mig tänker jag tråka ut er, skriva av mig och dela med mig lite av innehållet. Värt att läsa. Om man vill.
You find yourself heir to an inherent unsatisfactoriness in life that simply will not go away. You can suppress it from your awareness for a time and distract yourself for hours on end. There you are, and you suddenly realize that you are spending your life just barely getting by. You keep up a good front. You manage to make ends meed somehow and look good from the outside. But those periods of desperation's, those times when you feel everything caving you- you keep those to yourself. You are a mess, and you know it. But you hide it beautifully. Meanwhile, way down under all of that, you just know that there has to be some other way to live, a better way to look at the world, a way to touch life more fully. You click into it by chance now and then; you get a good job. You win the game. For a while, things are different. Life takes on a richness and clarity that makes all the bad times and humdrum fare away. "Okay, now I ve made it. I will be happy". But then that fades too, like smoke in the wind. You are left with just memories. The world looks like the usual foul place. It is an emotional roller coaster, and you are spending most of your time down at the bottom of the ramp, yearning for the heights.
So whats wrong with you? Are you a freak? No. You are just human. And you suffer from the same malady that infects every human being. A voice who keeps saying: "Not good enough yet. Have to make it better." We are all there. Moment by moment life flows by, and it is never the same. It is incessant: change, change, change; no two moment ever the same. There is nothing wrong with this. It is the nature of the universe. But human culture has tau
ght us some odd responses to this endless flowing. We categorize experiences; Good, bad, and neutral. We grab onto the good ones, try to keep it from escaping. We try to run away from the bad things, and ignore the neutral moments in life. The direct result of all this is a perpetual treadmill race to nowhere, endlessly pounding after pleasure, endlessly fleeing from pain, and endlessly ignoring 90 percent of our experiences. Then we wonder why life tastes so flat. This system does not work. Our minds are full of opinions and criticism.
Happiness and peace are really the prime issues in human existence. That is what all of us are seeking. If you learn to control your mind, if you step outside of the endless circle and learn to recognize desires but not be controlled by them you will find happiness. This sort of mental training is difficult, but worth to learn.
Most people knows that we have overdeveloped the material aspects of existence at the deeper emotional and spiritual aspects. But it is one thing to talk about degeneration of moral and spiritual fiber today, and another thing to actually do something about it. The place to start is within ourselves. You can not make radical changes in the pattern of your life until you begin to see yourself exactly as you are now and accept yourself for who you are in present. Best way to do this is by meditating. Meditation sharpens your concentration,intuition and your thinking power. Reason enough to bother? Try it. See for yourself.
Så fint..
Power of Loving Friendliness.
Each of us is born with the capacity for loving friendliness. Yet only in a calm mind, a mind free from anger, greed, and jealousy, can the seed of loving friendliness develop; only from the fertile ground of a peaceful mind can loving friendliness flower.
We all encounter people who push our buttons. People who makes us mad. Without mindfulness and loving friendliness, we respond automatically with anger or resentment. With mindfulness, we can watch how our mind responds to certain words and action, it gives us time; time gives us choices. We do not have to be swept away by our feelings. We can respond with wisdom rather than delusion.
If we respond to insults or angry words with mindfulness, we are able to look closely at the whole situation. Perhaps the words were not meant to harm you. Perhaps it was your frame of mind at the time the words were spoken. Perhaps you did not hear the words clearly or misunderstood the context. If you respond with anger, you will not hear the message behind the words. Perhaps that person is pointing out something you need to hear.
With the Loving Friendliness, we recognize more clearly the needs of others and need it in order to live and work with other in harmony. Loving Friendliness protects us from the suffering caused by anger and jealousy. We can cultivate passion and appreciative joy for others, which mean that we not only make life more pleasant for those around us, our lives become peaceful and happy. The power of loving friendliness, is beyond measure.
Avslutar det här inlägget med "Live with passion" som Pålle skulle ha sagt ;)
You find yourself heir to an inherent unsatisfactoriness in life that simply will not go away. You can suppress it from your awareness for a time and distract yourself for hours on end. There you are, and you suddenly realize that you are spending your life just barely getting by. You keep up a good front. You manage to make ends meed somehow and look good from the outside. But those periods of desperation's, those times when you feel everything caving you- you keep those to yourself. You are a mess, and you know it. But you hide it beautifully. Meanwhile, way down under all of that, you just know that there has to be some other way to live, a better way to look at the world, a way to touch life more fully. You click into it by chance now and then; you get a good job. You win the game. For a while, things are different. Life takes on a richness and clarity that makes all the bad times and humdrum fare away. "Okay, now I ve made it. I will be happy". But then that fades too, like smoke in the wind. You are left with just memories. The world looks like the usual foul place. It is an emotional roller coaster, and you are spending most of your time down at the bottom of the ramp, yearning for the heights.
So whats wrong with you? Are you a freak? No. You are just human. And you suffer from the same malady that infects every human being. A voice who keeps saying: "Not good enough yet. Have to make it better." We are all there. Moment by moment life flows by, and it is never the same. It is incessant: change, change, change; no two moment ever the same. There is nothing wrong with this. It is the nature of the universe. But human culture has tau
ght us some odd responses to this endless flowing. We categorize experiences; Good, bad, and neutral. We grab onto the good ones, try to keep it from escaping. We try to run away from the bad things, and ignore the neutral moments in life. The direct result of all this is a perpetual treadmill race to nowhere, endlessly pounding after pleasure, endlessly fleeing from pain, and endlessly ignoring 90 percent of our experiences. Then we wonder why life tastes so flat. This system does not work. Our minds are full of opinions and criticism.Happiness and peace are really the prime issues in human existence. That is what all of us are seeking. If you learn to control your mind, if you step outside of the endless circle and learn to recognize desires but not be controlled by them you will find happiness. This sort of mental training is difficult, but worth to learn.
Most people knows that we have overdeveloped the material aspects of existence at the deeper emotional and spiritual aspects. But it is one thing to talk about degeneration of moral and spiritual fiber today, and another thing to actually do something about it. The place to start is within ourselves. You can not make radical changes in the pattern of your life until you begin to see yourself exactly as you are now and accept yourself for who you are in present. Best way to do this is by meditating. Meditation sharpens your concentration,intuition and your thinking power. Reason enough to bother? Try it. See for yourself.
Så fint..
Power of Loving Friendliness.
Each of us is born with the capacity for loving friendliness. Yet only in a calm mind, a mind free from anger, greed, and jealousy, can the seed of loving friendliness develop; only from the fertile ground of a peaceful mind can loving friendliness flower.
We all encounter people who push our buttons. People who makes us mad. Without mindfulness and loving friendliness, we respond automatically with anger or resentment. With mindfulness, we can watch how our mind responds to certain words and action, it gives us time; time gives us choices. We do not have to be swept away by our feelings. We can respond with wisdom rather than delusion.
If we respond to insults or angry words with mindfulness, we are able to look closely at the whole situation. Perhaps the words were not meant to harm you. Perhaps it was your frame of mind at the time the words were spoken. Perhaps you did not hear the words clearly or misunderstood the context. If you respond with anger, you will not hear the message behind the words. Perhaps that person is pointing out something you need to hear.
With the Loving Friendliness, we recognize more clearly the needs of others and need it in order to live and work with other in harmony. Loving Friendliness protects us from the suffering caused by anger and jealousy. We can cultivate passion and appreciative joy for others, which mean that we not only make life more pleasant for those around us, our lives become peaceful and happy. The power of loving friendliness, is beyond measure.
Avslutar det här inlägget med "Live with passion" som Pålle skulle ha sagt ;)
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