Enable the power of meditation

• Technique

• Try to ensure privacy and peace before hand.
• Be outside with an expansive view of the sky if possible.
• Sit with a triangular base (fold the legs into a very stable, mountain-like base but sit on a cushion and do not strain the legs.)
• Keep the back perfectly straight - this is most important.
• Move the head into a rewarding angle - explore with your eyes closed for a position which feels good. Generally about 45 degrees to the floor is good - adjust for mood.
• Close the eyes if you prefer.
• Look within - that is - monitor your thought stream. Notice the gap that exists between thoughts.Explore this gap by stretching it.
• The last can be aided by the Buddha Dharma to monitor the breath.
• On the intake think in. On the out breath think out. Avoid the temptation to control the breath - simply monitor it. Disregard thought that arises by ' dropping it like a piece of dead wood' - Zen aphorism.
• After a time you can cease to watch the breath and enter the gap of meditation - no thought.

  

  
  
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