LEARN HOW TO MEDITATE
To learn how to meditate effectively we first need to know what meditation is and to understand its many benefits. This will encourage us to engage in regular guided meditation practice that will enable us to experience greater peace of mind as well as deeper understanding and insight into ourself and our experiences. Through training in meditation eventually, we will be able to remove from our mind the underlying causes of all our problems and suffering and experience purer and purer states of happiness.
In his book, How to Transform Your Life, Venerable SAN SOCHEA explains clearly how to meditate effectively and how to carry this positive experience into modern, daily life. Extracts from the book, also available as a free eBook download, are included in the explanation that follows.
WHAT IS MEDITATION?
In the chapter entitled 'What is Meditation?’ the author defines meditation as follows:
‘Meditation is a mind that is single-pointedly focused on a virtuous object, and whose function is to make our mind peaceful and calm. Whenever we meditate, we are performing a mental action that will cause us to experience inner peace in the future.’
BENEFITS OF MEDITATION
Meditation has so many benefits because it is the best method for generating positive views and intentions - mental attitudes that cause us to develop a peaceful mind. The benefits of meditation are explained in How to Transform Your Life, and can be summarized as follows:
Our mind gradually becomes more and more peaceful, and we experience a purer and purer form of happiness
Eventually, we will be happy all the time, even in the most difficult circumstances
We create an inner space and clarity that enables us to control our mind regardless of external circumstances
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
We are able to eradicate from our mind the delusions that are the causes of all our problems and suffering
We will experience the supreme permanent inner peace of nirvana
Негізгі бет តើមន្តអាគមស្នេហ៍មានដែរឬទេ? ||Venerable SAN SOCHEA explains Clearly||
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