The Wandering Mind
He discovered that struggling to find answers did not work. It was only when there were gaps in his struggle that insights came to him. He began to realize that there was a sane, awake quality within him which manifested itself only in the absence of struggle. So the practice of meditation involves “letting be.”
Chögyam Trungpa • Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
The sixteenth-century Kabbalist Judah Albotini shares light on one of their methods: “Those who meditate concentrate on an idea or on a very deep lesson. They close their eyes, and virtually nullify all their faculties in order to allow their hidden intellect to emerge from potential to action. They then absorb the lesson, permanently engraving it.
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What monks know about focus.
“A book is a tool. It’s a machine for thinking. And ‘all machines,’ as Thoreau once said, ‘have their friction.’ The time it takes to engage with ideas—whether factual or fictional, emotional or intellectual, accurate or inaccurate, efficient or inefficient—might strike some as a drag. But the time given to working thro
... See moreThis is why the Buddha teaches so strongly about the importance of yoniso manaskara or developing appropriate attention, learning to focus our attention on that which is in alignment with our deepest aspiration. Sometimes we get caught up in and water elements of consciousness that are not helpful for the kind of qualities that we want to manifest
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