meditation
Look at the effect meditation has on the entire community.
Think about it. Your mind is like a constant stream of thoughts, a sort of blip-blip-blip-blip-blip, from thought to thought to thought, with intervals consisting only of more thoughts. Thinking only serves to create a personal illusion, or map of the world as you believe it to be. I assure you, the map is
not the territory. Meditation and thoughtlessness allows one to simple
be, and to
be fully in the moment. The past is a memory and the future a dream. There is only eternal now. Live in it!
“Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.”
-The Buddha
“We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.”
-Alan Watts
“If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts."
-Alan Cohen
