Why
to Meditate
Part
I
HOW TO MEDITATE
(Why to Meditate)
Every day we all take care of our body, we dress him, we wash and
polish him and we feed him.
How much time we passes by in that way?
But how much time we dedicate at least to care for our mind?
From this point of view seems it that we give more importance to our
body then to our mind, what results strange, considering that it is our
mind and not the body, which interprets our experiences and makes
decisions every day.
Our body lives almost one hundred years or little more, but our mind
has the potentiality to felicity.
We spend a lot of attention to feed our body with sane and good food at
least we polished him once a day so that he doesn't offend our-self's
and others, but when we'll polish our mind?
If our body is sick, we try, as fast as possible, to cure him to become
free of suffering, but the sickness of our mind - the desire, the
aversion and the illusion- are considered normal and we do little or
nothing against that.
Then, with a mind fastened of the food of Dhamma (mental-physically
events of short duration), and dirty because we never polished him, hit
from the three fundamentally sicknesses and without any medicine, we're
wondering about our suffering.
Who of us want to be unhappy? Who does not desire felicity?
Our will and the desire alone do not produce a reduction of our
suffering or a growing of our felicity.
It needs the attention to our mind; only the attention is able to
produce a reduction of our suffering and felicity, since the attention
contains the factors that produce both of them.
A wise person knows that truth and acts only in such a way that the
reason for felicity, for him-self and others, are produced.
A human being has three doors to communicate with the external world:
the mind, the language (words) and the body.
The practice of meditation regards fundamentally the first of these
doors, the mind, nonetheless the first door controls the other two,
they cannot be seen as separated one from the others.
So if you desire to order your mind - body situation, language and body
has to be trained following the Dhamma, which stays for following the
road that leads to felicity and wisdom in your heard.
If your mind, the language and the body proceed in the same general
direction, you perceive absence of conflicts and a certain peace.
Who trains all these three doors of communication with the external
world on the road of Dhamma, is a real Yogi; he puts a common yoke
(rule) to the mind, the language and the body in the way that all three
together drag in the same direction. In such way meditation, has a
result.
This means that for meditating with success can be necessary some
modification in your lifestyle.
But you'll notice very early that what your meditation disturbs, and if
you appreciate the calm and intuition you obtain from meditation, will
it not be difficult for you to put apart the things that disturb or to
dispose them in a way so that arise less conflicts possible.
Yoga signifies literally placing a yoke (rule) onto the mind, the
language and the body that guides in the same direction of a harmonic
spiritual development.
For many people in the occident Yoga signifies almost only some physic
exercises that should conduct to meditation.
To exercise the body is certainly a good thing - but not to exaggerate.
Drilling the body is surely easier then to train the mind.
A exceedingly practice of Hatha Yoga leads to evolve an excessively
research of the body which is an obstacle and not an advantage.
Being able to manipulate the body in various ways seems to distract the
mind from the roots of many problems.
It's the mind, which causes many of the sicknesses of the body, and
it's for this that Buddha teaches:
The Dhamma
are scoured from the mind
The mind governs them
And they're made of mind (Dhammapadda)
Should your time be limited is it better to dedicate the most of your
time to meditation and limit the exercises to a view relaxing postures.
Continues here:
Part II: The mental Factor
in Meditation
Part III: What is Yoga
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