How to Meditate E-Book

Adrian Tanase

• Herausgeber: Crystal Gate Publishing
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Serie: The Golden Path
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Seitenzahl: 51

Beschreibung

In this book, I am presenting the practice of meditation in simple words, so that anyone can understand it, and start practicing it.

This book is created especially for beginner practitioners who want to pursue the practice of meditation and want to know how to start and how to practice it. Inside the book, there are 13 chapters, describing the process of meditation and general meditation instructions.

All throughout the book, I'm guiding you through this process of Shamatha meditation (which translates to Calm-Abiding), to make sure nothing will stand in the way of your successful practice.

Namaste

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How to meditate - a simple guide

by Adrian Tanase

ISBN: 978-3-98677-941-2

© 2022 Adrian Tanase

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How to Meditate - a simple guide -

by Adrian Tanase

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - What is meditation

Chapter 2 - Why meditate

Chapter 3 - A few benefits of meditation

Chapter 4 - A short introduction to breathing meditation

Chapter 5 - Common mistakes in meditation

Chapter 6 - Practicing meditation

Chapter 7 - Meeting your restless mind

Chapter 8 - Being consistent and assertive in your practice

Chapter 9 - The joy of breathing

Chapter 10 - The gaps of no thought

Chapter 11 - The mind of no thought

Chapter 12 - Meditation, a path toward spiritual awakening

Chapter 13 - Other types of meditation

Foreword

In this book, I am presenting the practice of meditation in simple words, so that anyone can understand it, and start practicing it.

This book is created especially for beginner practitioners that want to pursue the practice of meditation and want to know how to start and how to practice it.

Inside the book there are 13 chapters, describing the process of meditation and general meditation instructions. All throughout the book, I'm guiding you through this process of breathing meditation, to make sure nothing will stand in the way of your successful practice.

Enjoy!

1. What is meditation

Meditation is the core practice of Buddhism, where one uses the right practice to clean and train their wild minds. There are many types of meditation practices, but all of them focus on a particular aspect such as body sensations, breathing, the present moment, and so on, in order to experience fully what is going on inside your mind. Only when witnessing clearly what happens inside the mind, you have the chance to observe it and clean it, thus taming your mind, so that your mind becomes your friend, your ally, on your spiritual path.

Meditation is a simple yet widely misunderstood practice. There are tens of myths or explanations that go about meditation, and usually, people that start on this path can easily lose themselves in the details of the explanation, or in the process of meditation.

To the core, meditation is a thousand years-old practice, that was used to calm and clear one’s mind, and to gain insights from the spiritual realm. Through the practice of meditation, people manage to clear their view on life to such an extent that reality is beginning to be seen and perceived directly, with no filters in between your perception and the solid reality that exists around us. One of the purposes of meditation is to get aside all the mental filters and preconceptions that are in our minds, that were imprinted in our psyche from childhood until now, thus making us see clearly our immediate and perfect reality.

Meditation is usually done while sitting still on a chair or on a meditation cushion, but it can also be done while you lie on your back in your bed. The preferred posture is the one sitting cross-legged on a cushion, and that is because in this way our physical posture supports our endeavor or effort of meditating. The process is simple: you lie down on a meditation cushion and try to root and relax in a cross-legged posture. You place part of your conscious attention on your breathing, and you choose a time frame in which you will meditate, say 5 minutes in the beginning. 5, 10, or 15 minutes should be enough in the beginning, but for experienced meditators, this can extend to 45 minutes or even 2 hours. Because your attention is placed on your breathing, which is a clean and natural process, you will have nothing to think about. When your mind’s attention is on the breath, your usual thinking process stops. Of course, occasionally, different thoughts will arise, but each and every time you will see them for what they are, and you will gently bring back your attention on your breath. After a minute or two, if you manage to stay relaxed but alert in this posture, with the attention on your breathing, your attention will spread around yourself, and you will start to include in your practice not only your attention on your breath but your immediate surroundings as well. You can go on, for the remainder of your practice, and when you reach it, consciously slowly bring your attention back into the room, and when you are ready, get up the pillow, and put it back where you usually keep it. All this time that you are meditating try to maintain an upright posture, not too tight but also not too slouchy, and try to relax gradually all your muscles, and bring yourself to a comfortable position, from the face muscles to your body muscles, to the muscles in your hands and feet.

This is the whole process of meditation, and it helps immensely in relaxing your body, lowering your stress level, and cleaning your mind.

We will explore this simple process in depth in the next chapters and we will also take a look at the hindrances that stop us from meditating properly.