happyfish
Advanced Intermediate
Posts 202
Points 202
|
|
|
hello everyone, newbie to meditation forum  ...
want to share something interesting with you all, well, just heard it yesterday from a dharma talk on meditation, If you are holding a glass of water in hand during meditation... how or what you are going to do to make the water in the glass still???
share your thoughts  ...
|
|
Yogas Chitta-Vritti-Nirodha
|
|
|
Steve G
Advanced Intermediate
Posts 221
Points 223
|
|
|
Got to drink it happyfish 
|
|
|
|
|
happyfish
Advanced Intermediate
Posts 202
Points 202
|
|
|
yes, steve, this perhaps one of the ways...well, there is no definite answer for this question, but i just want to share with the below form this talks abt meditation....
" To clarify what meditation is and how to do it, Ajahn Brahm likes to perform a little demonstration. He holds up a glass, with the water in it sloshing from side to side. How can one make the water still? Ajahn Brahm stares intently at the glass and screws his face up with exaggerated effort, intoning, "I'm going to meditate! I'm going to 'concentrate'! I'm going to hold this cup of the water until it is totally still!" He pauses briefly, then asks with mock anxiety, "Is it still yet? Is it still yet?'
"That's the way many people meditate," he chuckles. "The problem is, the water never gets still that way, and people just get frustrated. The way to do it is to "put the glass down". At first, the water moves more, but then soon after it gets totally still, like it could never do if you were holding it.
"The same is true for meditation: At first, when you let go, the mind gets more restless. But then it gets still, like it couldn't if you were holding it, trying to make it still. When you put the mind down and let go of all control, meditation becomes so easy." When the mind is still, it is energised, and that energy gives you joy - this is where the happiness of meditation comes from.
Stillness also leads to insight. Once the mind is still and silent, it automatically sees more clearly. "A tadpole can only know what water is when it becomes a frog and gets out of the water. Similarly, only when your mind is still can you know what thinking is, what all the movement and agitation and craving is," he explains."
well, to make the water in the glass still is put the glass down or letting go...
namaste
|
|
Yogas Chitta-Vritti-Nirodha
|
|
|
Steve G
Advanced Intermediate
Posts 221
Points 223
|
|
|
Yes fishi, nice but one small question (answers to be limited to 3 lines or less)
How do you let go?
|
|
|
|
|
happyfish
Advanced Intermediate
Posts 202
Points 202
|
|
|
the answer is "put down on the table"...balance is just an explanation.. 
Btw..what a great question, how to let go??.. i need help!!! 
but i don;t think let go will happen if we desperately "want to" let go ...just like we want to "achieve" something, i would really think it wl happen naturally when u don't intend or purposely to make that happens...for instance, if we ask someone "don't think too much", they will think more... honestly, i don;t know how i let go, but to me, at one time, it just happens after i feel enough with all my attachment and suffering, and i just say let it go..and it just gone...
share your thonghts.......
|
|
Yogas Chitta-Vritti-Nirodha
|
|
|
ga_la
Day Packer
Posts 39
Points 39
|
|
|
hmmm.. very interesting..  might have to think this one over.. haha..
|
|
|
|
|
Steve G
Advanced Intermediate
Posts 221
Points 223
|
|
|
Rather just shoot from the hip
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Basics & Backgrounds
in Dutch
Home
Profile
Pictures
Print
Email
Reply
Quote