Meditation is that which gives you profound rest. It is a movement in which the practitioner just sits and enables the mind to disintegrate. Truthfully meditation is not concentration. It is a de-concentration.
With the hectic pace and demands of modern life, many individuals feel stressed and overworked. It frequently feels like there is not sufficient time in the day to complete everything. Our anxiety and tiredness make us troubled, anxious and baffled. It can even influence our well-being.
We are frequently so bustling we feel there is no opportunity to stop and meditate! In any case, meditation really gives you additional time by making your mind more settled and more engaged. A simple ten or fifteen minutes breathing meditation, as clarified beneath, can help you to defeat your anxiety and locate some inward peace and adjust.
Meditation can likewise help us to comprehend our own minds. We can figure out how to change our minds from negative to positive, from irritated to serene, from troubled to glad. Defeating negative personalities and developing productive contemplations is the motivation behind the transforming meditations found in the Buddhist tradition. This is a significant, profound spiritual practice you can enjoy for the duration of the day, not simply just while seated in meditation.
The reason for meditation is to make our minds tranquil. If our mind is tranquil, we will be free from stress and mental inconvenience. Thus we will encounter genuine joy; however, if our mind isn’t peaceful, we will think that it’s tough to be happy, regardless of whether we live in thes. If we are trained in meditation, our minds will progressively become increasingly tranquil, and we will encounter a purer and purer type of satisfaction. In the end, we will have the capacity to remain cheerful constantly, even in the most troublesome conditions.
Normally we think that it’s hard to control our minds. It appears as though our mind resembles a balloon in the breeze – blown here and there by outside conditions. If things go well, our mind is cheerful. However, if they go badly, it promptly ends up noticeably troubled. For instance, if we get what we need, for example, another ownership or a new partner, we end up happy and stick to them firmly. However, since we can’t have all that we want and will unavoidably be separated from the companions and belonging we presently appreciate, this mental stickiness, or connection, serves to cause us torment.
Then again, if we don’t get what we need, or if we lose something that we like, we end up plainly discouraged or bothered. For instance, on the off chance that we are compelled to work with a partner whom we despise, we will most likely wind up plainly chafed and feel abused, with the outcome that we will be not able to work with them productively and our chance at work will end up noticeably distressing and unrewarding.
Such fluctuations of mood arise because we are too closely involved in the external situation. We are like a child making a sandcastle who is excited when it is first made but who becomes upset when the incoming tide destroys it. By training in meditation, we create an inner space and clarity that enables us to control our minds regardless of the external circumstances. As a result, gradually we develop mental equilibrium, a balanced mind that is happy all the time, rather than an unbalanced mind that oscillates between the extremes of excitement and despondency.
If we train in meditation systematically, eventually, we will be able to eradicate from our mind the delusions that are the causes of all our problems and suffering. In this way, we will come to experience a permanent inner peace, known as “liberation” or “nirvana”. Then, day and night in life afterlife, we will experience only peace and happiness.
Meditation Posture
When we practice meditation we need to have a comfortable seat and a good posture. The most important feature of the posture is to keep our back straight. To help us do this if we are sitting on a cushion we make sure that the back of the cushion is slightly higher than the front, inclining our pelvis slightly forward. It is not necessary at first to sit cross-legged, but it is a good idea to become accustomed to sitting in the posture of Buddha Vairochana. If we cannot hold this posture we should sit in one which is as close to this as possible while remaining comfortable.
The seven features of Vairochana’s posture are:
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- The legs are crossed in the vajra posture. This helps to reduce the thoughts and feelings of desirous attachment.
- The right hand is placed in the left hand, palms upwards, with the tips of the thumbs, slightly raised and gently touching. The hands are held about four fingers’ width below the navel. This helps us to develop good concentration. The right hand symbolizes method and the left hand symbolizes wisdom. The two together symbolize the union of method and wisdom. The two thumbs at the level of the navel symbolize the blazing of inner fire.
- The back is straight but not tense. This helps us to develop and maintain a clear mind, and it allows the subtle energy-winds to flow freely.
- The lips and teeth are held as usual, but the tongue touches against the back of the upper teeth. This prevents excessive salivation while also preventing our mouth from becoming too dry.
- The head is tipped a little forward with the chin slightly tucked in so that the eyes are cast down. This helps prevent mental excitement.
- The eyes are neither wide open nor completely closed. Yet remain half open and gaze down along the line of the nose. If the eyes are wide open. We are likely to develop mental excitement and if they are closed we are likely to develop mental sinking.
- The shoulders are level and the elbows are held slightly away from the sides to let air circulate.
A further feature of Vairochana’s posture is the preliminary breathing meditation, which prepares our mind for developing a good motivation. When we sit down to meditate our mind is usually full of disturbing thoughts. We cannot immediately convert such a state of mind into the virtuous one we need as our motivation. A negative, disturbed state of mind is like pitch-black cloth. We cannot dye pitch-black cloth any other color. Unless we first remove all the black dye and make the cloth white again. In the same way, if we want to color our mind with a virtuous motivation. We need to clear away all our negative thoughts and distractions. We can accomplish this temporarily by practicing breathing meditation.
Breathing Meditation
When we have settled down comfortably on our meditation seat. We begin by becoming aware of the thoughts and distractions that are arising in our mind. Then we gently turn our attention to our breath, letting its rhythm remain normal. As we breathe out imagine, we are breathing away black smoke of all disturbing thoughts and distractions. As we breathe in we imagine that. We are breathing in all the blessings and inspiration of the holy beings in the form of white light. Which enters our body and absorbs into our heart.
Visualization
We maintain the visualization single-pointedly with each inhalation and exhalation for twenty-one rounds, or until mind become peaceful and alert. If we concentrate on our breathing in this way. Negative thoughts and distractions will temporarily disappear as we cannot concentrate on more than one object at a time. At the conclusion of our breathing meditation. We should think `Now I have received the blessings and inspiration of all the holy beings’. At this stage, our mind is like a clean white cloth which we can now color with a virtuous motivation.
During Tibet travel, you will get a lot of opportunities in a quiet place to meditate, We would recommend some meditate with the view of the beautiful landscape, following water of Kyichu river, and Beautiful sunshine over Mount Everest
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