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dalthauserMorning Walk: Aspire Podcast Sept. 20th & Joanna Macy - Sarvodaya Benefit Talk pt. 1
48 minutes 331 calories, avg heartbeat 117
* Listening to the Joanna Macy talk I liked how she talked about breathing in the Breath meditation she did at the end. This was the best part of the talk, and I wish I could clip it out all by itself to listen to for inspiration on days I just don't feel like I have the time to sit.
Don't try to breath long or slow or deep.
You don't try to breath any special way; you just greet the breath as it happens - - fresh, new, and different each time.
You take that precious gift of atention, the capacity of the mind to pay attention - and you attend to the breath.
All the way out.....and all the way in.
Sometimes it's like taking your mind and stroking the breath - caressing it - or riding on it - as you breath out - mindfully awake in that pause - then riding back on the in breath - and again awake in the pause before the outbreath - so that two things are happening - that you are equally aware.
The breathing and the knowing of the breathing.
This instantly collects the mind.
The mind does not let itself be separated from the breath - but of course, it will wander off, but then it comes back without drama or apology to the breath.
So this unites the body and the mind.
Now after doing this for 15 to 20 minutes - the length of time depends on what's happening that morning.
But when the anapanasati has brought a merging to body mind - each is more powerful - and with that greater power and focus....turn in the second part to loving kindness and you'll give an inner expression - an exercise to the heart inate capacity for metta - loving kindness.
Feel it coming through you.
A loving from a source that is bigger than any source inside you.
You let that current of loving kindness pour though you - and you just focus that beam of energy on this person or that relative or that situation - it's your choice.
and each time it brings naturally and powerfully that wish for another to be peaceful, happy, free from conflict, free from suffering.
.
* I watched the debates like a good citizen last night. I guess I'm too informed from listening to the talk radio shows and CNN because all I heard was blah blah blah blah - - nothing new, nothing to even perk up my interest. I did find Sarah Palin well rehearsed and poised. There is that.
48 minutes 331 calories, avg heartbeat 117
* Listening to the Joanna Macy talk I liked how she talked about breathing in the Breath meditation she did at the end. This was the best part of the talk, and I wish I could clip it out all by itself to listen to for inspiration on days I just don't feel like I have the time to sit.
Don't try to breath long or slow or deep.
You don't try to breath any special way; you just greet the breath as it happens - - fresh, new, and different each time.
You take that precious gift of atention, the capacity of the mind to pay attention - and you attend to the breath.
All the way out.....and all the way in.
Sometimes it's like taking your mind and stroking the breath - caressing it - or riding on it - as you breath out - mindfully awake in that pause - then riding back on the in breath - and again awake in the pause before the outbreath - so that two things are happening - that you are equally aware.
The breathing and the knowing of the breathing.
This instantly collects the mind.
The mind does not let itself be separated from the breath - but of course, it will wander off, but then it comes back without drama or apology to the breath.
So this unites the body and the mind.
Now after doing this for 15 to 20 minutes - the length of time depends on what's happening that morning.
But when the anapanasati has brought a merging to body mind - each is more powerful - and with that greater power and focus....turn in the second part to loving kindness and you'll give an inner expression - an exercise to the heart inate capacity for metta - loving kindness.
Feel it coming through you.
A loving from a source that is bigger than any source inside you.
You let that current of loving kindness pour though you - and you just focus that beam of energy on this person or that relative or that situation - it's your choice.
and each time it brings naturally and powerfully that wish for another to be peaceful, happy, free from conflict, free from suffering.
.
* I watched the debates like a good citizen last night. I guess I'm too informed from listening to the talk radio shows and CNN because all I heard was blah blah blah blah - - nothing new, nothing to even perk up my interest. I did find Sarah Palin well rehearsed and poised. There is that.
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Date: 2008-10-03 02:52 pm (UTC)Meanwhile I did watch the Adya radio show and it was just right... exactly what I needed to hear, he DID address the world issues and I'll probably buy the program anyway it was so good.
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Date: 2008-10-03 04:22 pm (UTC)Did you look behind the cut? I quoted someone who had a simple and moving description of breathing meditation - it was kind of space heavy, so I didn't want to annoy people on my lj list who could care less.
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Date: 2008-10-03 04:36 pm (UTC)Yep, I read the meditation... it is really very nice. I use breath alot in Qigong & Tai Chi. For sitting meditation either a mantra or breath or Tonglen in the past.
Adya is a different kind of teacher with a Zen background, so pretty strict but has taken much of any 'technique' out of sitting which is really challenging but has been good for me since I come from so many "techniques" it's good for me to even let those 'rules' go...
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Date: 2008-10-03 07:42 pm (UTC)no subject
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