BUDDHA'S QUOTES ON 'MEDITATION'
MEDITATION:
Meditation is a means of transforming the mind. It encourages and
develops concentration, clarity,emotional positivity, and a calm seeing of the
true nature of things. By engaging with meditation practice one learns the
patterns and habits of the mind, and the practice offers a means to cultivate
new, more positive ways of being. With regular work and patience these
nourishing, focused states of mind can deepen into profoundly peaceful and
energized states of mind. Such experiences can have a transformative effect and
can lead to a new understanding of life.
There
are five Meditations:
1.
The first is meditation of love, in which
you must so adjust your heart that you long for the weal and welfare of all
beings, including the happiness of your enemies.
2.
The second is the mediation of pity, in
which you think of all beings in distress, vividly representing their sorrows
and anxieties in your imagination so as to arouse a deep compassion for them in
your soul.
3.
The third is the meditation of joy, in
which you think of the prosperity of others and rejoice at
their rejoicing.
4.
The fourth is the meditation on impurity,
in which you consider the evil consequences of corruption, the effects of
sin and diseases. How trivial often the pleasure of the moment and how fatal
its consequences.
5.
The fifth is the meditation on serenity,
in which you rise above love and hate, tyranny and oppression, wealth and want,
and regard your own fate with impartial calmness and perfect tranquility.
There
are four Dhyanas (beatific vision):
1.
The first is seclusion, in which you
must free your mind from sensuality.
2.
The second is a tranquility of mind full of joy and gladness.
3.
The third is taking delight in
things spiritual.
4.
The fourth is a state of perfect purity and
peace, in which the mind is above all gladness and grief.
The
four means by which Riddhi (domination of spirit over matter) is acquired:
1.
Prevent bad qualities from arising.
2.
Put away bad qualities which haven arisen.
3.
Produce goodness that does not yet
come to existence.
4.
Search with sincerity and preserve
in your search. In the end you will find the truth.
