Introduction Flashcards
(35 cards)
What Ordinarily Comes To Mind When You Think About Meditation?
Activity of the Mind.
What is the TRUTH about Meditation?
Meditation begins by “Assuming A Specific Posture with our Bodies”.
What does this “Specific Posture” form?
The Literal Base that Meditation Rests & Depends on.
What does the Latin word, Positura mean?
A position.
What does the Latin word, Ponere mean?
To Place.
How do you determine what the Structure and Appearance of our Bodies are in?
- The position or place our bodies are in space.
2. How the different Segments of Our Body Relate to One Another.
How Do We Create Attitudes and Self-Image?
- Self-Consciously
- Self-Identify
- Project out to the World.
What Posture Does the Alienated/Angry person project?
The Determined Slouch
What Posture Does A Person Attempting to Conceal Insecurities look like?
The Overdeveloped Musculature.
What Posture Does A Lawyer Attempting to win over a jury?
The Affectionate of Casual Confidence.
What do All Self-Images Depend on?
Holding Our Bodies In Different Ways To Create A Desired Effect.
How Can We Hold Our Bodies to Create Different Postures that express different Attitudes?
By Tensing The Muscles in our Body & Hold Ourselves in Different Postures.
What is the Natural State of the Human Being or Animal?
Balanced & Relaxed.
How Are We Able Motivate Our Body into Motion in order to Tense Our Muscles to project a Specific Self-Image?
By Consciously Manipulating Our Bodies into Motion.
What Can We Limit?
The Range of Expression.
What Can We Restrict?
The Natural Movement of Energy Within our Bodies and Minds.
What Can We Forfeit?
The Natural Ease of Balance and Relaxation is our True Birthright.
How does Meditation Align Our Bodies & Minds in The Most Comfortable & Innocent Way?
By Using The Greater Forces of Nature To Condition Us.
When Are We Truly Able To Accept Ourselves?
- When we are in Truth with ourselves.
2. We feel no need to be anything else than what we Naturally are.
What do you find once you begin to experience Comfort and Relaxation within the Posture?
- You experience a Deeper Insight Into Our True Nature.
2. You experience a Higher State of Consciousness.
What Needs To Be Absolutely Perfect in order to reach A Higher State of Consciousness within the Posture?
- Refinement
- Verticality
- Relaxed & Balanced
How Many Meditation Techniques did The Buddha establish?
40
What is the Best Meditation Technique?
The one you adopt.
What is the most Dominated Common Technique?
The Sitting Posture.