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Meditation: discover the five misconceptions about practice and how to meditate

 

MEDITATION - Stress, discomfort and anxiety? Modern society seems to have a mode of operation that exceeds us and distresses us. This is not going to work out, especially in the big cities, where those who feel the need to find inner calm are more and more numerous.

 

Tai-chi, yoga, alternative medicine or herbal remedies, the least source of well-being is to be taken and never have relaxation methods been so successful. Be careful not to fall into the illusion. Meditation is a millennial practice which must remain authentic. We must be wary of the myths that have been forged around it.

 

In the virtues taught by the many schools of Buddhism - Zen, Mahayana, Vajrayana - the idea of a common basis for the practice of meditation emerges. Similarity does not necessarily mean ease. To avoid falling quickly into error before even trying, we gives you the 5 false ideas to know about the practice of meditation:

 

 

Being Buddhist or Religious Is Not Useful For Meditating

Even if meditation is often related to Buddhists or Hindus, it can be practiced without any form of religiosity. Meditating is above all recreating a link with oneself and establishing a direct and simple relationship with what is, what presents itself to us. For example, Zen is practiced by religious, monks and nuns who have chosen to make meditation the pillar of their lives. But that does not prevent them from opening the doors of their temples or their dojos to those who want to practice meditation from a purely secular perspective.

 

We don't stop thoughts during meditation

It is wrong to think that by meditating, you learn to suppress, stop or even dominate your thoughts. This practice does not give any particular power to control the brain and fulfill its desires. On the contrary, the suppression of thought is seen as an internal struggle which causes more complications.

 

Meditating is a natural settling of the mind which involves observing our thoughts as they are, without wanting to stop them. There is nothing reflective. All the work of the meditator lies in an alternation between observation and concentration. To observe one's thoughts is to understand their origins and realize their nature. Nor is it a question of absolutely seeking inner peace because it is not by seeking it that you will find it. It is when we try to pet the cat that it flees from us.

 

One does not reach high spheres during meditation

Nirvana is a concept very often overused. Many tend to imagine that the Buddha experienced enlightenment by reaching spheres out of reality. It is quite the opposite. If we meditate, it is to undo blockages that prevent us from seeing reality as it is and from finding our true nature. However, it is neither a withdrawal or a mental rumination. Meditation seeks to reveal reality. Stillness, focus and observation are one method to achieve this.

 

Meditation is not an egocentric practice

Self-centeredness in the West has a very negative meaning because it is understood as a general state extended over time. Excluding meditating means being attentive to yourself in order to be more attentive to the outside world and to others. Besides, the Bodhisattva, the one who vows to take refuge in the three jewels of Buddhism (the Buddha, the Sangha which is the community and the Dharma, the teaching of the Buddha) chosen above all to help other sentient beings to awaken while progressing himself towards his own awakening.

 

Meditation is not a method of relaxation

A deep breath, an immobile posture, meditation obviously has relaxing properties, but it is not limited to that. Relaxation, by definition, is a technique to calm mental but above all bodily tensions. To meditate is to consider these tensions with precision in order to awaken to the sources of them.

 

The psychiatrist and psychotherapist Christophe André thus sums up meditation in one sentence: "it is tirelessly learning to let the tumult of our moods settle and the chatter of our mind ...

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