Timing of meditation
score:1
My morning meditation is my clearest meditation.
I also take quiet breaks a couple times a day. Sometimes I even fall asleep for 10-20 minutes. It renews me.
The evening meditation is important to me to clear away the unresolved issues in the day and prepares me for the rest that is so important for a stable mind in these uncertain and stressful times. http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/231282-zen-mind-beginner-s-mind
“So we should be concentrated with our full mind and body on what we do; and we should be faithful, subjectively and objectively, to ourselves, and especially to our feelings. Even when you do not feel so well, it is better to express how you feel without any particular attachment or intention. So you may say, “Oh, I am sorry, I do not feel well.” ― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/62707.Shunryu_Suzuki
“When you accept everything, everything is beyond dimensions. The earth is not great nor a grain of sand small. In the realm of Great Activity picking up a grain of sand is the same as taking up the whole universe. To save one sentient being is to save all sentient beings. Your efforts of this moment to save one person is the same as the eternal merit of Buddha.” ― Shunryu Suzuki
Some suggest that as long as we are aware we meditate. We do dishes aware, we walk aware, we shower aware. Certainly we have meditation practice but to expand that beyond a ritual and a routine is the opening to an extraordinary life.
Upvote:1
Breaking the practice to 2 sessions is helpful and advisable. In case you experience any hindrances at a particular session you have at least the other session which might be more productive.
More post
- 📝 Is it ok to eat after midnight after observing the 8 precepts?
- 📝 Which commitment should I make?
- 📝 Dealing with Contempt and Social Comparison
- 📝 How does one know if one is destined to attain Nibbana?
- 📝 What is the consequence to living life with self realism behavior?
- 📝 What is the minimum I need to do to advance?
- 📝 Judging mindfully
- 📝 If i am the result of an aggregate, how does one refer to oneself?
- 📝 Was the Abhidhamma taught by the Buddha?
- 📝 Incarnation of Arhat Ji Gong 濟公
- 📝 How to deal with loved ones who don't support you?
- 📝 From Kapilavastu to Lumbini, how many minutes or hours to reach the end (Lumbini) in a chariot?
- 📝 What is the destination of unenlightened monk reviling Noble Layperson?
- 📝 Does Buddhism claim that our World is an illusion? In other words is it a Matrix? Any proof for this?
- 📝 What are the 5 cords of sensual pleasures?
- 📝 Are Therevada's cosmology and the Mahanaya's sutras physically impossible?
- 📝 Has anyone claimed to have reborn in Pure Land, and later returned to earth to help other beings?
- 📝 Should Buddhist teachers get rich?
- 📝 Is peeking a "blind box" considered as stealing? Or breaking of any precepts?
- 📝 Buddhism is kind of depressing
- 📝 what is difference between sukha and somanassam?
- 📝 Anatta & reincarnation
- 📝 What is right view regarding rebirth?
- 📝 Who am I? Who am I without past memory?
- 📝 Is vipassana practice the same as insight practice?
- 📝 Accurate and Concise Translation of Dhamma Qualities
- 📝 Intensifying sensations during meditation after switching to an Ayuverdic lifestyle
- 📝 Meditation in day to day life
- 📝 buddha's advice to moggallana
- 📝 Heaven and Hell in Buddhism
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Timing of meditation
- 📝 How to determine the end of a meditation session without a clock?
- 📝 What is the next meditation type after Mindfulness of Breathing meditation?
- 📝 Purpose of touching tongue to roof of mouth during meditation
- 📝 Meditation and 'not trying to change anything'
- 📝 Strange feelings after meditation and mindfulness practice?
- 📝 Why is meditation making me more angry?
- 📝 How to disambiguate between various meditation practices?
- 📝 Overwhelming states of being reached through meditation
- 📝 Can one learn meditation on their own?
- 📝 Can one practice meditation to gain knowledge about the universe?
- 📝 Does meditation increase productivity for software developers and related professions?
- 📝 When meditation goes wrong
- 📝 The object of meditation
- 📝 Problem concentrating during Vipassana meditation
- 📝 Details for Kasina Meditation
- 📝 What is the minimum amount of time needed for a productive meditation sit?
- 📝 Anapanasati Buddhist meditation
- 📝 Is it useful (and polite) to ask a potential meditation teacher about their attainments?
- 📝 Difference in Buddhist meditation and meditation in other religions
- 📝 Meditation technique proposed by the Buddha
- 📝 That "Electric Feel" body sensation during meditation
- 📝 Was meditation not practiced for most of the history of Buddhism?
- 📝 Panic arising in meditation
- 📝 Did Buddha practice group meditation with bhikkhus, bhikkhunis and laymen, just like in today's meditation center?
- 📝 Methods of Modern Meditation Masters
- 📝 How effective are guided meditation sessions in achieving the benefits of meditation?
- 📝 Meditation for Psychosis
- 📝 Can meditation cause you to sleep less?
- 📝 Maintaining the emotional state achieved in meditation through the rest of the day