Just So» dalai lama http://www.mikaelaldridge.com Meditations on Enlightenment Wed, 16 May 2012 00:10:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Meditation time http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/meditation-time/ http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/meditation-time/#comments Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:15:20 +0000 mikael http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/?p=628 It struck me as interesting the other day that the Dalai Lama spends four hours a day meditating. And in one of the experiments that has popped up in the news an experienced meditator is considered to have done 10,000 hours. If you meditate for 2 hours a day, it’s going to take you almost fourteen years to become an experienced meditator. That’s some time.

The goal though isn’t to be an experienced meditator though; it’s enlightenment, the goalless goal. And apparently that happens quickly for some people and slowly for others. Nevertheless Buddha continued meditating after enlightenment. And it strikes me that it’s just nice to do.

Yet for me 80 minutes, which is what I do like to do in a morning, is definitely better than 15 and it seems that with 30 I’m only just getting started. But that’s just my experience.

Then there are seshins although I’ve never been on one. It must be fabulous.

What’s your experience?

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]]> http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/meditation-time/feed/ 1 Mindfulness of Sunyata http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/mindfulness-of-sunyata/ http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/mindfulness-of-sunyata/#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:00:00 +0000 mikael All through the circle of apparent and transitory objects
Spreads the space of the clear light of the real, the ultimate,
In which all things have a transcendental being.
Forsaking all mental inventions,
Dwell in the pure state of sunyata.
Draw in your mind, centering it in the real.
Guide your attention with mindfulness,
Holding it within the real.

Kelsang Gyatso, The 7th Dalai Lama

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