Posts Tagged ‘why meditation’

• Stillness & Effort

  written by Simone on Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

  A yogi instructed in class the other day that, “the only effort you need to expend is the effort it takes to bring you to the present moment.” All of our decisions, choices, and actions are best made from this moment. Not “in reaction to” but rather from a place of stillness, only accessible in [...]

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• Is “patience” a state of mind?

  written by Simone on Saturday, April 2nd, 2011

  I struggle with patience.  Two phrases make me cringe, ‘be patient’ and ‘have faith.’ I don’t know why. Is it because I am immature or childish and I just want what I want now? Does one have patience because they have faith and trust or is patience something that transcends the content of thoughts and better understood in the context of [...]

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• Children, meditation and world peace

  written by Simone on Monday, January 11th, 2010

  Last year the David Lynch Foundation along with the Transcendental Meditation Program launched a campaign to “Teach One Million At-Risk Youth to Meditate.” The goal of their global peace initiative is to bring meditation to youth, parents and staff in schools around the world in hopes of reducing the effects of stress [...]

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• What Brings Us To Meditation?

  written by YeShey on Thursday, November 26th, 2009

  Most of us come to the spiritual path because we are experiencing something in life that we don’t like, something that we want to overcome.  At some level we have a dissatisfaction, a pain, some form of suffering. Perhaps we have already tried various ways of overcoming the suffering. We found that some methods helped [...]

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