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Meditation - The Dao Culture
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What is meditation?
젨
People pray to Gods when they are suffered from outside problems or inside
anxieties. Pray, especially petitioners pray, in which people ask God to help
with my promotion, to wish to bolster the little ego in its wants and desires is
religious.
젨 However, Meditation is not a religious thing, but a
spiritual practice that has to be actual experience. It seeks to go beyond the
ego altogether; it asks nothing from God, real or imagined, but rather offers
itself as a sacrifice toward a greater awareness; not preachy and churchy morals
(drinking, smoking or sexing, etc.), but with the disciplining of awareness,
with Spirit found in everyone뭩 Heart. Meditation is a way to evoke the
relaxation response, a way to train and strengthen awareness, a method for
centering and focusing the self, a way to halt constant verbal thinking and
relax the body to relieve stress, bolster self-esteem, reduce anxiety, and
alleviate depression.
Meditation was invented in no matter what the
religious group is, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Taoist, or Islamic, as a way for
the soul to venture inward, to find a supreme identity with God. The Kingdom of
Heaven is within and meditation is the royal road from the very beginning to
that Kingdom.
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