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What is Zen Meditation? How to Awaken
Before I elaborate on “What is Zen Meditation?”, I think its pertinent to explain its origins and its relationship to Buddhism. What is Buddhism? Buddhism can be considered a philosophy, discipline of the mind, a religion and/or a way of life. The Buddhist path is a personal experience of achieving deep and long-lasting happiness by gaining wisdom and a mind free of negative emotions. Meditation is a means of accomplishing this (Venerable Thubten Lhundrup, 2004). Who founded Buddhism? Approximately 2,500 years ago, Siddhartha Gautama was born in the foothills of Nepal. At the age of 29, Siddhartha took up the life of an ascetic. After training in meditation for six…
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The Power of Awareness: Online Course Review
If you want to bring more awareness into your life, understand what that really means, the power it has and experience how this can transform your life then you’re definitely on the right track in considering The Power of Awareness online course. From my personal experience, experience is the key. We can learn and understand things intellectually (or not for that matter and to be honest the intellectual understanding isn’t necessary), but what we really want is to see a change, experience a change. The intellect can be useful, but what we really want here is a knowing (beyond the mind) and a great portal for that is through mindfulness…
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What is the power of awareness? Waking to a life unimagined!
Before what is the Power of Awareness Let’s start with a definition of awareness before we get into what the power of awareness actually is. What is awareness? From a spiritual perspective, awareness is the ability to be mindful of one’s thoughts with the aim of recognising the ego and its impact on our everyday lives. That is to say, how we experience our lives through the ego, for example in our connections with others or how satisfied or dissatisfied we are with our life situation. The recognition of the ego is crucial in accessing the power of awareness. We begin to wake up and see the truth – we…