Does Meditation Important To Us?

Run a regular practice of meditation is very helpful, even if it only lasted for a moment the exercises alone each day. It is not right to think, "I am the working man. My days are so busy with a career, family, and social responsibility, thus I can't meditate. " If meditation were very beneficial for us, we should set aside time for ourselves. Even if we don't meditate, it is important setting aside a quiet time for yourself every day-a time to reflect on what we are doing and why, or learn about Dharma.

It is extremely important that we learn to love ourselves and be happy in solitude. Setting aside for a moment the silence, on the morning before the start of the daily activities or at the end of the day, is the need-especially in modern society where everyone is so busy. We always have time to give food to the body; We never missed a meal because we looked at it is important. 

Meditation For Busy People

At this point as time moves quickly and the development of modern times, everyone from the young to the old look so busy for a variety of activities such as working for insufficient economic, good family in any advanced or developing countries, highly visible bustle of everyone at the center of the economy, the stock exchange floor or shopping centers.

The flurry of people at the moment it is draining and mind including the inner conditions eroded by a variety of problems that arise due to their busyness, every day they have to deal with the various problems that successive causing unstable emotional state and not quietly, of course it will be impaired health and mental.

If things are allowed to continuously already certain to be many problems that will arise, so what can we do, do it for those who have become accustomed to meditation is certainly not unusual, they do meditation when time off, after they finished eating, they train serenity time for themselves, they do get out of breath meditation or mindfulness, observing every things calmly to all the inner and physical activity.

Research Shows Compassion Meditation Can Change The Brain

Can we train ourselves to be compassionate? New study gives the answer: Yes. Cultivating compassion and kindness through meditation can affect parts of the brain that can make someone more sympathetic to others, said researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The study, published on 25 March in the public library of Science One, is the first study using magnetic resonance imaging, FMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) who can show that positive emotions such as showing affection and kindness is something that can be learned, as well as studying music. Researchers revealed that part of the brain that is used to detect emotions and feelings changes dramatically in people who have been practicing compassion meditation regularly.

The researchers stated that every individual – ranging from children who may be involved in anger to others are likely to be affected by depression – therefore they will benefit from the practice of meditation, said Richard Davidson, Professor of Psychiatry and psychology, UW-MADISON and an expert in imaging of meditation. Davidson and Science Association of UW-MADISON Antoine Lutz was the chief investigator.

This study is part of an ongoing investigation of researchers with 16 Tibetan monks who has been practicing meditation at least 10,000 hours. Then they were paired with 16 volunteers who haven't practiced meditation before. They taught fine points of compassion meditation during the two weeks before the brain scan is performed.

Preparation for Learning Meditation

Place

When you include an ongoing learning meditation, we recommend that you choose an appropriate place to practice meditation. Avoid the place that too crowded, full of bustle of daily work. The venue for example could be a bedroom, gardens, or anywhere else that is bright enough. Try practicing in the same place and don't move often. If you are already advanced, then you can practice meditation anywhere, even in places you get the job done.

Time

Meditation can be chosen on their own time. In fact, any time is good. However, people usually assume that the best time to meditate is the morning between the hours of 7: 00.00 up to hours. Or the afternoon between the hours of 5 pm until 22: 00 hours. If you have already determined the time meditating, use that time well. During that time, you MUST use the powers willingness to leave while all the bustle of everyday, such as work, pleasure, sorrow and anxiety.

While practicing meditation, don't give a chance or serve the worldliness of the mind forms into your mind. Intend so diligently in carrying out the practice of meditation with regular every day. If you have advanced meditation, every time it is good to practice meditation. If you have reached this level, then meditation is part of your everyday life. In other words, meditation has become a habit of your life.

Teacher/Master

Maybe you feel need a teacher or master in practicing meditation. Actually it is not easy finding teachers who are good at and according to teach meditation to you. If you have any friends who are already experienced in meditation, try discussing before him. If you have any books on meditation, read the first book. They are your teacher. If you've got the teacher, the teacher is just know that friends and bookmark your way. He cannot do the meditation for you. He could not redeem yourself, if you can already manage and focus, and then develop a strong AWARENESS, that is what is going to be your teacher. Indeed, your teacher is currently already in yourself.

Why Meditate?

In this world, whether you're looking for by most people in their life? In fact, they want to find inner peace and harmony of life. Not least among them trying to look it up, even though they may not know what clearly was about to they searched, or maybe how to get it.
 

They often feel confused, feeling a lot of turmoil and inner confusion encountered. They were attacked by an assortment of feelings of unsatisfactory or less fun. They briefly did not get their inner peace and prosperity in.

Most of them then drove the wrong way for gaining inner peace and harmony of this lifetime. They tend to see and find out themselves. As a result, this world is the source of all anxiety.

They are seeking a settlement of the issue in their family, in their work, or in a relationship and so on. They assume that can change the circumstances around them, they will be calm and happy.

Now there have been many people who have been aware of the present reality and turned their attention to, which shows the real source of happiness and anxiety, is THEIR OWN MIND. Shows attention to oneself, in their own mind, this is called meditation.

This meditation has many adult practiced by people of different nationalities and religions. Why is this so? Because the work that thought without wearing a certain style of nation or religion. So the task of meditation is to understand the nature of the mind or live in everyday life. The mind is the key to happiness, the opposite is also a source of suffering/doom.

Practices of Meditation

Talking about meditation is not the same as practicing meditation. Sometimes we need some pointers in doing meditation, because we do not always know how to meditate. Therefore, on the eve of this day we are going to get how to meditate. Sit quietly and listen to instructions properly. Before you start the practice of meditation please knowing this knowledge, we'll implement the Metta Bhavana (Development of Universal Charity), and after that we are practicing Anapanasati Bhavana or Development Awareness in breath. In practice, we are not tried to get in on the circumstances without conscious or reaching jhanas, but we will practice Satipatthana Bhavana (Development of Consciousness); and as at first step is to train the Anapanasati (attention on the respiratory tract). Sati it means pure attention or awareness jelly or consciousness (mindfulness), meaning that the basic Patthana so that is the basis of consciousness satipatthana.

What is the basis of consciousness? Foundation of awareness is our physical body, feelings, perception/experiences, forms of thought, and consciousness of our own. In short, we realize our name-pancakkhanda or rupa. The goal of these exercises is to learn to see things as what they are.

Meditation is not a kind of way to escape from reality to fantasy. The Buddha recommend us to practice and see things as what they are, or actually in Pali called Yathabutanana Dassana. To be able to see objects as they are. It takes mind clear, calm, and thought that the mind is free from concepts, ideas, or prejudices. When in our minds appear ideas or concepts or wishful thinking, then we must realize that we are thinking, that we're fantasizing, or we are looking at the picture in our inner being. These inner figures indeed correct inner picture is, but they're not something real/real.

Concentration and Meditation

For most of people, the concentration is an old word for meditation. Maybe that's why most buddhists are more or less satisfied with the assumption that when they do something in the form of concentrated work, such as reading, playing golf - they've meditated. They are partially correct and some are wrong.

The actual concentration is just one part of the meditation. the essence of meditation is to attain a form of higher understanding, namely panna (in pali language), for spread out from the inner limits of the intellect and into the area of intuition, discretion area. View in many cases the practice of meditation needs a briefing to an inner state of being centralized in the initial stages. The first method used is trained to concentrate on inner a singleton object.

If we look into the act of concentration we use in working or hobbies, we will find that the purpose of these activities is different from the purpose of meditation. in a job or a hobby, we are only concerned with achieving something that is generally outside us such a success in the job, win a golf game, completing a scientific experiment etc. While in meditation of the achievements was in a direction, achievement of self-understanding and views of inner light. In the initial stages of meditation, may need to concentration on the object outside the inner, such as nostrils, or the movement of the stomach, until the inner directed at one point. Type of centering this also happened when we are working or playing, that's where the similarities between concentration and meditation ends.