Living Meditation

nivek

As Above So Below
With all its intellectual acuteness our age is encumbered by the exuberant growth of human vanity. “In the Vedic hymns the ideas and myths appear in their simplest and freshest form,” a Sanskrit scholar would say, many do not see that simplicity and freshness in their outer lives but it is within...Balancing the daily events and demands of life there is what can be nurtured called a living meditation. A form of meditation that dates back centuries, where one doesn't need to take special time to meditate, although that is very helpful too, some days we just do not have time.

I'll elaborate to this in the manner and expression as shown to me, a foundation to build upon, using a mixture of allegorical, metaphoric, and plain prose phrasing.
 

Dundee

Fading day by day.
I have over the decades experimented with many different groups, gatherings, even I guess cults. although at the time I didn't really see that. For decades people have said "OK time to meditate"I have looked at candles, imagines my third eye, looked at nothing, chanted, you name it, but nothing really ever provided me with anything tangible that I could say, "Oh wow, that was really cool" Until a few years ago when I responded to a private hand drawn flyer on a small notice board in the window of a supermarket in my small home town. All it read was "Ninjitsu Classes, private tuition, call....
So I did, and apart from the many amazing lessons I learned the hard way about getting ones but kicked by a small frail looking man, a foot shorter than me, 20 years my senior and very much not the man you would pick as dangerous.
He also taught me after all these years how to meditate in a way that made sense, was easy to do, and on one occasion gave me the most profound experience of my life.
I don't do Ninjitsu any more, but his gift of guided meditation was far more valuable to me than any of the martial arts he taught me. So many people in the past have said,"OK close your eyes, lets meditate" He is the only one who actually taught me how. I have since used it many times to put my kids to sleep or into deep relaxation when they couldn't sleep.
It is the simplest most effective method I have ever found.
 
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