“Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It’s like the ultimate rest. It’s better than the best sleep you’ve ever had. It’s a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.” — Hugh Jackman
“Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.” — Arianna Huffington
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” — Blaise Pascal
頭腦健身房
成為自己情緒的主人
Meditation is the intermittent fasting for the mind.
Meditation is turning off society and listening to yourself.
Hiking is walking meditation.
Journaling is writing meditation.
Praying is gratitude meditation.
Showering is accidental meditation.
Sitting quietly is direct meditation.
The goal of productive meditation is to take a period in which you’re occupied physically but not mentally like walking, jogging, driving, showering, and focus your attention on a single well-defined professional, challenging problem.
Eckhart Tolle
- “Enlightenment 1 is the space between your thoughts.”
- It’s not what we think but what happens in between that brings us peace.
- Enlightenment isn’t this thing you achieve after 30 years, sitting in a corner on a mountain top. It’s something you can achieve moment to moment and you can be certain percentage enlightened every single day.
- “So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to dis-identify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger. One day you may catch yourself smiling at the voice in your head, as you would smile at the antics of a child. This means that you no longer take the content of your mind all that seriously, as your sense of self does not depend on it.”
Different Types of Meditation
- Vipassana Meditation
- Refocused Focused Meditation
- Transcendental Meditation (TM) is a form of silent meditation developed by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
- Loving Kindness Meditation
Footnotes
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= 開悟 = 般若 (> 知識 + 智慧) = 啟迪 ↩