Corporal Hicks
Black Belt
Hi,
I recently put another thread on similar to this on enlightenment and awareness but here I was going to talk about something different. This applies mainly to Buddhism but please all thoughts welcome!
When it comes to meditation, when should it be that you begin to self reflect or even ponder questions etc etc? After you have started to control your breathing and reached a relaxed state? When?
And please dont say, go and meditate on it, because I wouldnt know when to start meditating on meditating thats why Im asking!
This is where I personally get confused also with the principles, because your trying to stop the 'chatter' in your head yet your also self reflecting which in fact is using the mind to determine, or is it using the mind effectively instead of letting it use you?
The same with the questions that you may ask, how are you meant to 'mediate' on questions? Since so far I'm concentrating so much on trying to control my breathing and get that right by the time it comes to thinking I just lose it all.
Should meditation be used to self reflect? Or to stop the 'chatter'?
When it comes to self reflection is it correct to do so all the time? Not just in meditation (if thats what you do so),I mean now I have found that I do it all the time, constantly watching my thoughts, what I say to people, actions etc. Even when I'm not around people, and trying to 'correct' them.
The bad point I have found to this is that seems to be happening all the time, now this wouldnt be a problem, but I'm going to university soon which is supposed the be the best time of your life, and with this constant self anaylsing I worry that I'm not going to enjoy the time I have there, constantly watching my thoughts and not just 'enjoying'.
Alot of my thoughts I would like to meditate on but since I'm not entirelly sure where to start I'm a bit lost, since I've only been able to meditate up to the point of having gaps of no chatter in my head?!
Does anybody else self reflect constantly? How do you 'change' the actions that you percieve to not follow the eightfold path? To give a personal example, I was a person who got very jealous of my girlfriend going out with mates, especially male on night outs!
After studying Buddhism and make concious efforts to notice my pattern of behaviour I went into the feelings that I had (not through mediation) and explored in myself why I had them, what was causing them and I came to the conclusion it was through insecurity (suprise suprise) feelings of lack of control, I then applied this to the eightfold path and noticed the idea of attachment I had made to her, and the idea of the ego causing the feelings of insecurity and lack of control.
I then used this to go further and watch the 'mind pattern' everytime I got jealous and went into the feeling, and since I've constantly done this the hold it had on me has about disappeared.
Is this the correct way to self correct? According to the eightfold path?
Anybody have any other personal (or not personal) experiences they want to share that self reflection has changed their lives in some way.
Sorry to blabber!
Kind regards
I recently put another thread on similar to this on enlightenment and awareness but here I was going to talk about something different. This applies mainly to Buddhism but please all thoughts welcome!
When it comes to meditation, when should it be that you begin to self reflect or even ponder questions etc etc? After you have started to control your breathing and reached a relaxed state? When?
And please dont say, go and meditate on it, because I wouldnt know when to start meditating on meditating thats why Im asking!
This is where I personally get confused also with the principles, because your trying to stop the 'chatter' in your head yet your also self reflecting which in fact is using the mind to determine, or is it using the mind effectively instead of letting it use you?
The same with the questions that you may ask, how are you meant to 'mediate' on questions? Since so far I'm concentrating so much on trying to control my breathing and get that right by the time it comes to thinking I just lose it all.
Should meditation be used to self reflect? Or to stop the 'chatter'?
When it comes to self reflection is it correct to do so all the time? Not just in meditation (if thats what you do so),I mean now I have found that I do it all the time, constantly watching my thoughts, what I say to people, actions etc. Even when I'm not around people, and trying to 'correct' them.
The bad point I have found to this is that seems to be happening all the time, now this wouldnt be a problem, but I'm going to university soon which is supposed the be the best time of your life, and with this constant self anaylsing I worry that I'm not going to enjoy the time I have there, constantly watching my thoughts and not just 'enjoying'.
Alot of my thoughts I would like to meditate on but since I'm not entirelly sure where to start I'm a bit lost, since I've only been able to meditate up to the point of having gaps of no chatter in my head?!
Does anybody else self reflect constantly? How do you 'change' the actions that you percieve to not follow the eightfold path? To give a personal example, I was a person who got very jealous of my girlfriend going out with mates, especially male on night outs!
After studying Buddhism and make concious efforts to notice my pattern of behaviour I went into the feelings that I had (not through mediation) and explored in myself why I had them, what was causing them and I came to the conclusion it was through insecurity (suprise suprise) feelings of lack of control, I then applied this to the eightfold path and noticed the idea of attachment I had made to her, and the idea of the ego causing the feelings of insecurity and lack of control.
I then used this to go further and watch the 'mind pattern' everytime I got jealous and went into the feeling, and since I've constantly done this the hold it had on me has about disappeared.
Is this the correct way to self correct? According to the eightfold path?
Anybody have any other personal (or not personal) experiences they want to share that self reflection has changed their lives in some way.
Sorry to blabber!
Kind regards