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June 04, 2005
General notes on meditation
Some general notes on meditation
* Biggest warning on meditation: Meditation is not an intellectual (analytical) exercise. Meditation is Experiential exercise. You gain only by actually practicing. Understanding how and why it works is not necessary. Such an exercise works as impediment to your progress on the meditation path. The only way out is to actually practice it. That is it.. Go and practice it.. Don't even try to read what I am saying here. Pick a technique which suits your temperament; then get up and go practice it.
* Buddhism is the only religion which does not talk about God. (Later schools of Buddhism have converted Buddha himself into God but the original Buddhism as it is called "Theravada or Hinayana school" never talks about god. Buddhism does not claim that god does not exist either. It just does not talk about it. The central theme of Buddhism is you (i.e. human condition). The basic starting point is that "human existence/condition has suffering". Then it goes on about characterizing such suffering and showing the path out of the suffering. That is it.
Posted by nachiketa at June 4, 2005 05:06 PM