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Our students practice meditation in many places, you may have seen one of us standing at a park. We always remind students to become a part of nature, blend in, so that the deer and bird see you as part of the environment, in tranquility. Over the years, while learning to meditate and practicing calming the mind, we have been approached many times. Most kids ask their mom and dad; "is that a statue" or "is he real"? People will stop to observe and usually get tired of waiting for one of us to move, so they move on. There are a few sincerely interested who will walk to me while practicing and ask "can I ask you, what are you doing?" My response for the last 15 years has been "I'm exercising just like you, you are walking on the outside, I am walking on the inside." We recently had a student practicing and had their picture taken. A software program turned the picture into detailed sketch. It was amazing how he did blend into the environment when sketched.
Learning to meditate is relatively simple, but amazingly complex. To meditate, changes the physical and electrical rhthyms of the heart and mind. Step one to meditate, the most challenging for most, is to just calm down the mind. We teach our students who are learning to meditate many exercises so they can learn to lead their mind, rather than having their mind wonder from thought to thought, memory to memory, and constantly losing focus. To meditate requires that gentle, persistant effort. Then one day, it takes less effort because the mind stops resisting, and begans to look forward to the daily cleansing. |
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