Are you meditating or marinating?

[CommonConduit]

Some words from my meditation teacher, contained in a 20-minute podcast.

ARE YOU MEDITATING OR MARINATING?

Curious to hear about your own experiences with meditation!

Meditation | House of the beloved

How can you differentiate between true meditation that leads to awakening, and any other practices that don't?

www.houseofthebeloved.eu

 

[Tripolation]

Largely marinating here. I used to meditate daily. I fell off my practice. Lately It takes a long time for my brain to settle down. I find sitting in nature with eyes open is the fastest way for me to quite my mind.

 

[Voidmatrix]

For me it's like sleeping. I don't make myself sleep. I just fall asleep. I may do all kinds of stuff to prepare me for sleep, but I don't make myself sleep. Same thing for meditation. Enter the space, commit, surrender, see what happens.

One love

 

[CommonConduit]

Lotus position in bed for me, usually, sitting up straight. Eyes closed.

To be with what is.

 

[Transform]

With floatation tanks, one gets to do both.

Now that's something I'd really like, a floatation tank!

 

[Voidmatrix]

I think it should be noted that meditation is a vastly broad term for an array of activities. In zazen, for example, you're kinda supposed to marinate, just without judgment or goals.

One love

 

[Voidmatrix]

With floatation tanks, one gets to do both.

Now that's something I'd really like, a floatation tank!

Take a DMT pen with you

One love

 

[Tripolation]

Jiddu Krishnamurti has helped me a lot with my mindset with meditation. I just think he explains it well. Putting thoughts in their right place. We want always to have some kind of experience. Thinking about doing this and that and the other and meditation is just stopping the wanting and goings on in the mind. Observing the thoughts and just allowing them to pass without giving them anything to grip onto. Passing clouds.

My life has been a bit hectic lately and I completely fell off my routine. Moving across the country, starting a new job, and just life. I have a nice pond in my new backyard and sometimes I just sit there for an hour or so just watching the ducks and geese. I guess mediation can occur anywhere if you have the right mindset.

Talking about this makes me want to start a daily meditation again. Actually making the time to sit. I have a zafu and zabuton that has been sitting in a box. Perhaps time to get it out.

 

[Voidmatrix]

Join me.

One love

 

[Tripolation]

Join me.

One love

Thanks for that. I just got done with the video and it was nice to sit and breathe. Funny I could hear doggo's barking video and then seconds later my two doggos start wrestling and growling. It made me laugh that the dogs don't care about meditation one iota! Dog test meditation for me this time around.

And to the O.P. I perused the website and listened to the podcast. Both of which I enjoyed. Thank you for sharing.

 

[Voidmatrix]

Thanks for that. I just got done with the video and it was nice to sit and breathe. Funny I could hear doggo's barking video and then seconds later my two doggos start wrestling and growling. It made me laugh that the dogs don't care about meditation one iota! Dog test meditation for me this time around.

And to the O.P. I perused the website and listened to the podcast. Both of which I enjoyed. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for listening and I'm glad that you enjoyed it. Still getting comfortable with the whole YouTube thing.

And those two dogs aren't even mine They're my neighbors. Every time I open my back door, there they are to greet me, heads quickly popping up over the fence.

One love

 

[northape]

Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism are all babysitters.
There should come a point when you no longer need a babysitter…
— by Chögyam Trungpa

In my humble opinion, all techniques are doing, even non-doing.
True meditation or non-meditation comes by itself with sufficient maturation.
Truth is beyond our ordinary mind, so any mind created view can never touch it.
Faith and devotion are the life force of any spiritual path.
Peace

 

[CommonConduit]

Yeah, it’s probably right .. here. All allong.

 

[CommonConduit]

Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism are all babysitters.
There should come a point when you no longer need a babysitter…
— by Chögyam Trungpa

Rinpoche may have fared better if he had a babysitter assigned to him at some points in his life, perhaps ..

 

[northape]

Rinpoche may have fared better if he had a babysitter assigned to him at some points in his life, perhaps ..

I knew it was coming
No one will get the same level of education and meditation practice that were available in Old Tibet.
Even new generation of Tibetans are far from people who came down in 50s.
So I still believe he had wisdom to share. Anyhow, I agree with the quote.
P.S. It's his drunken statement, by the way

 

[highalt]

I'm over a year into a consistent meditation practice. I'm still marinating like day one!

Lifting expectations helps a lot. If the goal is to become aware of experience then focusing on the...

... Did I get done that thing today? Oh sh*t supposed to be meditating.. Awareness of thoughts.. Good..

... Awareness of thoughts.. Am I thinking about thinking? Oh sh*t here we go again...

One day at a time. I think there's a comedy to all of it because you never get rid of the mind. I believe there's zen koans about this and how it's all pointless anyway. When you try to meditate you're not meditating. When you think deeply and hold intellectual notions about... Oh sh*t.. Am I thinking again?

Back to the breath...
Will I ever do this right?

Did I leave something in the oven?
Why did whales decide to leave the land and go into the ocean?

F*ck this nirvana bulls*t its all a load of sh*t anyway..

Back to the breath...
Breathing in I know I'm breathing in
Breathing out I know I'm breathing out

How much money in the bank account?

F*CK! AGAIN!

 

[Tripolation]

I'm over a year into a consistent meditation practice. I'm still marinating like day one!

Lifting expectations helps a lot. If the goal is to become aware of experience then focusing on the...

... Did I get done that thing today? Oh sh*t supposed to be meditating.. Awareness of thoughts.. Good..

... Awareness of thoughts.. Am I thinking about thinking? Oh sh*t here we go again...

One day at a time. I think there's a comedy to all of it because you never get rid of the mind. I believe there's zen koans about this and how it's all pointless anyway. When you try to meditate you're not meditating. When you think deeply and hold intellectual notions about... Oh sh*t.. Am I thinking again?

Back to the breath...
Will I ever do this right?

Did I leave something in the oven?
Why did whales decide to leave the land and go into the ocean?

F*ck this nirvana bulls*t its all a load of sh*t anyway..

Back to the breath...
Breathing in I know I'm breathing in
Breathing out I know I'm breathing out

How much money in the bank account?

F*CK! AGAIN!

Floating clouds that never end. Just watching the thoughts can become the meditation. Then all the stress of doing this or that right is out the window. Barking dog, bird whistling near by, the hum of the air conditioning kicking on, a motorcycle off in the distance. They all become one thing along with your thoughts happening now. Every time you realize you are not present, you are present. (I think it was Tolle said something to that effect?) It is a comedy. Give up the right way and do it your way but do it in the now.