MEDITATION INFORMATION ARTICLES

Contemplation Meditation

Read a quotation, a poem, or any kind of writing and contemplate on the contents as precisely as possible.

Contemplation
Kind of Meditation	Contemplation
Degree of difficulty	Beginners and more advanced students
Advised duration	5 to 15 minutes
Posture	Sitting or Lying
Advantages	+ it helps you to reach deeper levels of insight + it helps to let a text not only affect your brain but also your emotion + it gives you a relaxed, peaceful feeling
Remarks	Now and then, you should allow the deeper meaning of texts, poems, and other forms of writing to really affect you.

At the end of a normal Meditation or when you have just read an interesting text, it may be a good idea to let the text really affect you. After reading the text, we take the time to become quiet inside and to really feel and experience the text. Pay attention to how your emotions react and the realization of recognition that you will feel deep inside. In a meditative state, this happens easily because we are not hindered by the constant stream of negative thoughts that easily distract us or obstruct the view. As in the case of any form of Meditation, we try not to judge, we try not to get angry with ourselves when things do not go so well, and we try not to be too goal-oriented. You are totally free in choosing any text you like. To give you some examples, we have put some nice texts on this page.

Hope

The greater danger

for most of us

is not that our aim is

too high

and we miss it,

but that it is too low

and we reach it.

Michelangelo (1475-1564)

Shine

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure