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=Lesson 4: Why we Meditate= (By Sam)(ael) (Return to Lessons) (Return to Teachings)

Ah, meditation. Your great tool. Ever wonder what the REAL point to meditation was? Why about 300 monks all spend hours each day meditating? Did you ever wonder what exactly are they doing or think it was a waste of life when you only have so many hours to live?

Meditation is the key to gaining control of your mind and emotions. The keys to the kingdom of your reality. How can sitting in one spot with your eyes closed (possibly humming?) help you? Well actually, sitting is just for rookies when it comes to meditation. A master is supposed to do what you do in meditation all the time and sitting is just little kid practice. Meditation is practicing how to control your mind and some people need to sit down to get a hold on the wild monkeys riding their tractors. This is meditation in a nutshell:
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Meditation is focusing your awareness

When you meditate you are learning to shut out the ideas that just pop up, and this is done by 1. Learning the actual function of the brain and, 2. Shutting out everything else until it gives up and you own the place again.

1. The brain is an excellent tool. It can solve problems, hold information, and visualize new things that you have never seen before. That is all it is supposed to do. Your problem is that the wild monkeys are running your projector at all hours showing you pieces of 1000 reels with no meaning or sequence. They are running your memory banks all night when you can’t get that song out of your head, and they and running your precious problem solver all day by asking pointless questions that make no sense and have no value. Which is better: Pizza or ice cream? Pizza and ice cream are experiences which are both good. You weren’t asking about health facts or you could get a real and possibly useful answer worked out. Your brain is a tool that is being misused. Fix it by: 2. Shutting everything else out of your mind by focusing on the information your senses are giving you instead. Be aware of the moment and each sensation of your senses. (Many monks are focused on their breathing, their heart-rate, their hearing, and their body sensations while they are huddled up for hours at a time. By sitting and cutting all of the distractions but a few they are able to focus on being aware of just a few sensations and risking less distraction and absent thought. Once they can walk and talk without losing that focus on their awareness they are ready for the second use of meditation.) 3. The second part of meditation trains you to use your thoughts and in some cases emotion for creating. (This is done by visualizing without getting distracted which is hard to do even when you have succeeded in the first part of meditation.)

Lesson 1: The Nature of the force Lesson 2: Feeling the force Lesson 3: Gaining Control Lesson 4: Why we Meditate Lesson 5: Using the force Lesson 6: Insights
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