RE: I'm an atheist but I quite like Buddism...
January 16, 2015 at 9:27 am
(This post was last modified: January 16, 2015 at 9:32 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Try these.
Relax, get in a comfortable position. Brethe in for 4sec, hold for 4secs, out for 4 secs (that's my standard). Imagine that you are standing on a windy ledge. Visualize a single thing that troubles you, or the first thing that comes to your mind as a piece of paper. Put it in an imaginary envelope, and then let it go. Watch it flutter out over the ledge. Repeat this until things that come to your mind leave just as quickly, or until you no longer wish to meditate. If you reach a point where you feel that your mind is quiet, or at least quieter...try this next bit (or try the next bit from the word go)
Imagine that you are sitting/laying next to a glass sphere filled with liquid light - and that you yourself are a glass container in the shape of "you". When you breathe in, visualize some portion of that spheres contents draining from the sphere, and filling you from the bottom up. When you breathe out, visualize an even smaller portion of the spheres contents going back from you - to the sphere. Everytime you finish a breathing cycle, you should be slightly more full of light, and the sphere should be slightly less so. Continue until you are filled/no longer wish to meditate.
Those are my two alltime favorites - if I really want to sit back and relax my thoughts. -Or- you can take a hit of that sweet, sweet cheeba. Up to you.
(inner peace, for me, is best achieved by high temperatures and hard physical labor, btw - many roads lead to Rome, eh? In the summer I feel like a plant or a colony of cells with roots below and leaves above, just doing things - permeable, I suppose you'd say. In the winter I feel very much like myself-and-nothing-else, distinct, dormant, calcified - impenetrable.)
Relax, get in a comfortable position. Brethe in for 4sec, hold for 4secs, out for 4 secs (that's my standard). Imagine that you are standing on a windy ledge. Visualize a single thing that troubles you, or the first thing that comes to your mind as a piece of paper. Put it in an imaginary envelope, and then let it go. Watch it flutter out over the ledge. Repeat this until things that come to your mind leave just as quickly, or until you no longer wish to meditate. If you reach a point where you feel that your mind is quiet, or at least quieter...try this next bit (or try the next bit from the word go)
Imagine that you are sitting/laying next to a glass sphere filled with liquid light - and that you yourself are a glass container in the shape of "you". When you breathe in, visualize some portion of that spheres contents draining from the sphere, and filling you from the bottom up. When you breathe out, visualize an even smaller portion of the spheres contents going back from you - to the sphere. Everytime you finish a breathing cycle, you should be slightly more full of light, and the sphere should be slightly less so. Continue until you are filled/no longer wish to meditate.
Those are my two alltime favorites - if I really want to sit back and relax my thoughts. -Or- you can take a hit of that sweet, sweet cheeba. Up to you.
(inner peace, for me, is best achieved by high temperatures and hard physical labor, btw - many roads lead to Rome, eh? In the summer I feel like a plant or a colony of cells with roots below and leaves above, just doing things - permeable, I suppose you'd say. In the winter I feel very much like myself-and-nothing-else, distinct, dormant, calcified - impenetrable.)
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
