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How to Practice Meditation Effectively
It just occurred to me, while meditating just now, that the goal of meditation is not to get rid of your thoughts, but rather to become the observer of them. It’s like watching a play instead of being an actor. Or watching a football game instead of participating. It’s as simple as that! I heard Deepak Chopra…
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What is Meditation and How to Do it Properly?
You just practice letting thoughts come without having an emotional reaction to them. This is the key at first, and why it’s better to limit it to 20 minutes or maybe 30 minutes at first. We’re so conditioned to having an emotional reaction to our thoughts, that it is a little exhausting and intimidating to…
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The Purpose of Mythology
The purpose of mythology is to make you realize that your ego is keeping you from your destiny. Maybe we shouldn’t say “your” ego because that emphasizes the sense of separateness that the ego function engenders. The definition of ego is the belief, or rather, the sense that you are separate from the outside world,…
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How to meditate – 2
Okay, so, thoughts are the problem. There’s no question about that. Thoughts are your jailer, but I want to make this as simple as I can. What gives thoughts their energy is your emotional attachment to them. So the practice during meditation is not to try to stop thinking. That’s impossible, at least directly. The…
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On Ego: The Labyrinth Metaphor
The labyrinth in which the hero soul has become lost. That’s the place from which we are all starting. Did the ego build this labyrinth? Or is the labyrinth a metaphor for the ego itself? Those are interesting questions, but they aren’t nearly as interesting, practically speaking, as what the Wax String of Theseus stands…
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I Just Couldn’t Let This One Go
“In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?” ~ Gautama Buddha I saw this on Facebook tonight. There was a page called Buddhism. The Part that got me was “How deeply did you let go?” I feel that’s truly such…