One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.
Interpretation
Meditation serves as a sophisticated tool for understanding the connection between mind and body.
This quote by Jon Kabat-Zinn suggests that meditation is not just a practice but a refined technique honed through centuries of tradition. It highlights the importance of understanding the interplay between our mental and physical states, emphasizing meditation as a valuable resource for enhancing our awareness and well-being.
In practice
In a wellness workshop discussing the benefits of mindfulness, this quote could resonate with attendees.
Once you have established yourself as a center of love and kindness radiating throughout your being, which amounts to a cradling of yourself in loving kindness and acceptance, you can dwell here indefinitely, drinking at this fount, bathing it in, renewing yourself, nourishing yourself, enlivening yourself. This can be a profoundly healing practice for body and soul.
Meditation means learning how to get out of this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn from it, and then use its energies to guide us.
Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.
The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are same. So if youβre not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, youβre not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
Initiate giving. Don't wait for someone to ask. See what happens - especially to you. You may find that you gain a greater clarity about yourself and about your relationships, as well as more energy rather than less. You may find that, rather than exhausting yourself or your resources, you will replenish them. Such is the power of mindful, selfless generosity. At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient . . . only the universe rearranging itself.
Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.
Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
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