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Christina Feldman. Meditation: The only introduction you’ll ever need
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. PRINCIPLES OF MEDITATION
2. CONCENTRATION
3. MINDFULNESS MEDITATION
4. DEVOTION
5. CALMING THE MIND AND BODY
6. MEDITATION IN DAILY LIFE
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THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO ALL OF MY TEACHERS WHO HAVE BEEN LIVING EXAMPLES OF THE PATH OF WISDOM AND COMPASSION.
TO SARA AND ARRAN, ALWAYS AN INSPIRATION.
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The capacity for acceptance is another of the primary principles that allows meditation to deepen and that runs through the variety of approaches. True acceptance is neither blind nor passive, but the capacity to see things as they actually are, free from judgement or prejudice. Acceptance is the extension of generosity, tolerance and forgiveness.
The process of inner change includes the process of becoming increasingly aware and sensitive to our inner landscape. In cultivating the power of attention we are revealed to ourselves. The variety of inner processes and dynamics that shape the life of our hearts and minds becomes progressively more visible to us. No one has yet created a path of meditation in which we are able to bypass ourselves – our bodies, emotions, minds, or personalities on the way to enlightenment, peace and understanding. Instead through meditation we become increasingly intimate with all the variety of thoughts, feelings, impressions and aspirations that shape us as human beings. We do not always enjoy or appreciate facets of our being that are revealed through our meditation practice. Qualities such as greed, anger, jealousy or indifference are not easy to accept with kindness and tolerance. It is easy to become judgmental and rejecting of parts of ourselves that we dislike because they are not in accord with our image of who we think we should be. Our judgements and rejections serve only to harden the mind and create endless agitation as we endeavour to avoid what we condemn within ourselves.
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