Living Meditations
Jan 9, 2019 20:10:04 GMT -7
Post by Darth Draconis on Jan 9, 2019 20:10:04 GMT -7
Folks unfamiliar with the various meditative approaches and techniques out there, and how diverse, how different from each other they can be, might associate mediation exclusively with the image of a man or woman sitting in silence, deep in contemplation, essentially navel gazing. There are plenty of forms of mediation that fit that bill, and some of them are even useful despite being geared towards non-action, stillness, and quiet as avenues toward the destination/purpose mediation conventionally seeks. But there are also many forms of living meditation, methods engaged in while in motion, active, actively doing something.
Any preference between moving meditations and still, sitting meditations? If so, how come? And what in your experience are the drawbacks and upsides of each? If you don't have experience in one or the other (or either), feel free to speculate. I'd be interested to know how many Sith even actively or regularly engage in meditative practices these days, and what you've learned and are learning from your experiences if you do.
Gracco: Personally I think one of the most simple albeit at times hardest meditation to do is meditation in the midst of action.
Completely focused and empty and mind in action completely mindful and alert to surroundings and inner and outer happenings...this is even more important if you are an empath or telepath or plan on honing these skills imo.
This is all that this meditation requires but a thing so simple is oft hard to bring to the point of simplicity.
All the hustle and bustle and noise of everyday life. This meditation challenges the practitioner to be mindful alert and content while also being in action and in not the most conducive surroundings. It challenges one to instead of finding a quiet calm place to get away from things to accept where ever one may be in meditation.
This is one form of meditation I have found personally greatly increases clarity of mind and peacefulness of thought and it tends to be a meditation in which thoughts and feelings of derisiveness in action or about any thing tend to surface more easily. Also it begets an absence of complacentness and stirs stagnation since anything that is done will be done mindfully and with intent and focus. It is also a great tool for learning the nature of self. The Mu or empty and voided nature that is the innately neutral force within. It will show more and more through mastery both the dark and the light within and in time will make way for operation in all things from the standpoint of the true will unclouded by thought.
I personally do this quite oft in the midst of every day and have found it to be greatly beneficial as I have outlined in part above.
Completely focused and empty and mind in action completely mindful and alert to surroundings and inner and outer happenings...this is even more important if you are an empath or telepath or plan on honing these skills imo.
This is all that this meditation requires but a thing so simple is oft hard to bring to the point of simplicity.
All the hustle and bustle and noise of everyday life. This meditation challenges the practitioner to be mindful alert and content while also being in action and in not the most conducive surroundings. It challenges one to instead of finding a quiet calm place to get away from things to accept where ever one may be in meditation.
This is one form of meditation I have found personally greatly increases clarity of mind and peacefulness of thought and it tends to be a meditation in which thoughts and feelings of derisiveness in action or about any thing tend to surface more easily. Also it begets an absence of complacentness and stirs stagnation since anything that is done will be done mindfully and with intent and focus. It is also a great tool for learning the nature of self. The Mu or empty and voided nature that is the innately neutral force within. It will show more and more through mastery both the dark and the light within and in time will make way for operation in all things from the standpoint of the true will unclouded by thought.
I personally do this quite oft in the midst of every day and have found it to be greatly beneficial as I have outlined in part above.
Any preference between moving meditations and still, sitting meditations? If so, how come? And what in your experience are the drawbacks and upsides of each? If you don't have experience in one or the other (or either), feel free to speculate. I'd be interested to know how many Sith even actively or regularly engage in meditative practices these days, and what you've learned and are learning from your experiences if you do.