[无量香光 · 显密文库 · 手机站]
fowap.goodweb.net.cn
{返回首页}


Meditation for Difficult Times
 
{返回 Pema Chodron 文集}
{返回网页版}
点击:1656

Meditation for Difficult Times

Pema Chödrön on four ways that meditation helps us deal with difficulty

Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is a simple, direct relationship with our being. We call this maitri, loving-kindness toward ourselves and others. There are four qualities of maitri that are cultivated when we meditate:

1. Steadfastness. When we practice meditation we are strengthening our ability to be steadfast with ourselves, in body as well as mind.

2. Clear seeing. This is another way of saying that we have less self-deception. Through the process of practicing the technique day in and day out, year after year, we begin to be very honest with ourselves.

3. Experiencing our emotional distress. We practice dropping whatever story we are telling ourselves and leaning into the emotions and the fear. We stay with the emotion, experience it, and leave it as it is, without proliferating. Thus we train in opening the fearful heart to the restlessness of our own energy. We learn to abide with the experience of our emotions.

4. Attention to the present moment. We make the choice, moment by moment, to be fully here. Attending to our present-moment mind and body is a way of being tender toward self, toward others, and toward the world. This quality of attention is inherent in our ability to love. These four factors not only apply to sitting meditation, but are essential to all the bodhichitta (awakened heart) practices and for relating with difficult situations in our daily lives. By cultivating them we discover for ourselves that it is bodhichitta, not confusion, that is basic.


{返回 Pema Chodron 文集}
{返回网页版}
{返回首页}

上一篇:Waking Up to Your World
下一篇:已经没有了
 Turn Your Thinking Upside Down
 How to Awaken Your Heart
 Signs of Spiritual Progress
 Choosing Peace
 Three Methods for Working with Chao..
 Transforming the Heart of Suffering..
 Six Kinds of Loneliness
 The Threefold Purity
 How We Get Hooked and How We Get Un..
 Bodhichitta: The Excellence of Awak..
全文 标题
 
【佛教文章随机阅读】
 清净传承之重要性[栏目:普巴扎西仁波切]
 大方广佛华严经讲记 第三七四卷[栏目:大方广佛华严经讲记·第四集]
 金色比丘尼——丑女供养佛塔,感得金色身相[栏目:造塔感应]
 第三部 僧团之父 马哈咖沙巴 第一章 马哈咖沙巴早年[栏目:佛陀的圣弟子传]
 大家发财[栏目:觉世论丛]
 绽放心灵 缔造和谐——第二界紫荆女性发展论坛演讲[栏目:传喜法师]
 《金刚经》释义 第四品、妙行无住分[栏目:法界法师]
 梵网经忏悔行法(藕益大师)[栏目:经忏仪轨]
 寻找佛陀落地石[栏目:佛宝论·明贤法师]
 在藏传佛教的五大门派里,有四派认同如来藏思想,只有格鲁派持中观应成派思想,反对...[栏目:索达吉堪布·问答释疑]


{返回首页}

△TOP

- 手机版 -
[无量香光·显密文库·佛教文集]
教育、非赢利、公益性的佛教文化传播
白玛若拙佛教文化传播工作室制作
www.goodweb.net.cn Copyrights reserved
(2003-2015)
站长信箱:yjp990@163.com