Doc Stier wrote:Daily meditation works for me. First in the mind and then in the body.
oragami_itto wrote:Doc Stier wrote:Daily meditation works for me. First in the mind and then in the body.
What makes up your practice? 15 minutes in full lotus with a finger mudra?
The most common meditation techniques tend to focus on one single idea, thought or concept, and let all other thoughts pass by. The consciousness is arranged around the single idea so the thoughts and feelings can be controlled by ignoring them. But if you look at Tai Chi, regardless it’s about standing practice or form, there is not this kind of attachment. The nature of Tai Chi mind is non-attached. The state of the Tai Chi mind is empty, yet none of what is happening around you disregard, no impression ignored or suppressed. Everything that happens passes by like the wind, without judgement or attachment. So from this point of view, in order to prevent confusion and misunderstanding, it’s better to explain what meditation or a meditative state in Tai Chi practice might mean and make a clear distinction between “common” meditation techniques. Even if that Tai Chi is not a meditation technique, and “Tai Chi is not meditation”, are valid statements, Tai Chi is still a meditative practice. From my own personal experience, it can work as meditation and affect the practitioner in similar ways as in traditional meditation. Thus “Tai Chi is meditation” is also a valid statement. Which one that is true or false depends on point of view and what values you put into the two different terms.
My teacher explained that as meditation speaking, Tai Chi Chuan works as self-hypnosis. The movements of the form, especially if performed slow and even, has a hypnotic effect. This is the nature of the meditative practice of Tai Chi and it’s the only technique you’ll ever need to find yourself in a deeper state of consciousness. The more slow, the better meditatively speaking. I myself have found that there is a point of speed, when I speed down to a certain pace, where I can more or less automatically reach another deeper level of calmness, awareness and consciousness. I have practiced common meditation techniques as well, common techniques as well as deeper not so common methods. Personally, I find that what you can reach with your mind in Tai Chi practice is pretty much the same as in traditional meditation.
Doc Stier wrote:oragami_itto wrote:Doc Stier wrote:Daily meditation works for me. First in the mind and then in the body.
What makes up your practice? 15 minutes in full lotus with a finger mudra?
Hahaha! Get serious, Jason. 15 minutes is wimpy.
My daily meditation practice is usually an hour of seated Raja Yoga meditation both early morning and late night, plus an hour of standing meditation at midday. It's all good!
“Again, bhikkhus, when walking, a bhikkhu understands: ‘I am walking’; when standing, he understands: ‘I am standing’; when sitting, [57] he understands: ‘I am
sitting’; when lying down, he understands: ‘I am lying down’; or he understands accordingly however his body is disposed. 7. “In this way he abides contemplating the body as a body internally, externally, and both internally and externally … And he abides independent, not clinging to anything in the world. That too is how a bhikkhu
abides contemplating the body as a body.
GrahamB wrote:Nothing screams "benefits of meditation" quite as loud as bragging about how long you meditate - lol
wayne hansen wrote:Super impressed
How long have you been keeping up that regime
GrahamB wrote:Oh don't get me wrong Doc, I'm very impressed, I just wish it hadn't killed your sense of humour. Oh well.
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