What is meditation really? In this month’s podcast, Kelly and I explore how meditation relates to the rest of your life. You’ll learn:
- How meditation can affect our lives both on and off the cushion
- The difference between meditation technique and meditative experience
- A broader, all-encompassing definition of meditation.
Click below to listen. And as always, please share your questions and meditation experiences in the comments section below.
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I resonate with this podcast. Nothing is more difficult to deal with this life drama. Many time when things go tough, I can tell I don’t feel grounded and even be flooded away by my strong emotions. In this way I’m very destructive and people who love me can hurt from my destructive behavior. Or when things turned really sad, I can even try my best to shut down my feelings to be cold and distance.I started to feel anyway the world is full of miseries then why am I here to deal with these dramas？ I’m so tired of it, even feeling depressed. why not just quit the game???
Meditation sometimes can be very uncomfortable and scary too. On one hand, meditation kind of shares the pain and uncomfortableness with life. on the other hand, it shows people a strange realm. The boundary of meditation is hard to tell. Meditation is not attractive to me, the experience in the strange dimension which medication brings is fascinating to me. The experience constantly whispering in my ears and makes me really want to know.
I personally don’t feel meditation makes me a better person. I sometimes still have very intense emotions and tons of anger. Luckily, there are some meditation teachers never require me to follow moral standards which I totally don’t believe. They don’t talk about anything religious or spiritual, they just teach me to do very tangible things in their class. Arron is one of them.
Arron talked about clarity in the last class. After listening to this procast, i guess you were talking about the constant consciousness when we dealing with thing we don’t know how to deal about at first? Anyway, I like the idea that if we can be very conscious about what’s going on maybe we can deal with tough situations more skillfully.
Thank you, Aaron.
Hi Fengbei,
Thank you for sharing your insight and experience here. You beautifully expressed the challenge of managing our minds and emotions in the face of everyday challenges and I really appreciate your honesty.
The fact is, both meditation and life can be scary and challenging. From one perspective, meditation practice offers a kind of “laboratory” for discovering and training our minds. At first, the experiences in meditation can feel disconnected from our daily live but with practice the goal is to bring that kind of attention and awareness off the mat. Is it easy? Absolutely not! Can we aspire to it step-by-step? Yes!
Thanks for sharing and keep listening!
Many thanks,
Aaron