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This document discusses meditation and provides guidance on meditation practices. It defines meditation as cultivating positive qualities like presence and awareness. It notes that meditation is not about emptying the mind but seeing reality clearly. The document recommends three formal meditation practices: noticing the breath for one minute, noticing any hints of joy that arise during mindful breathing, and inviting joy while attending to three breaths.

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Quote From Dr. Pedram Shojai

This document discusses meditation and provides guidance on meditation practices. It defines meditation as cultivating positive qualities like presence and awareness. It notes that meditation is not about emptying the mind but seeing reality clearly. The document recommends three formal meditation practices: noticing the breath for one minute, noticing any hints of joy that arise during mindful breathing, and inviting joy while attending to three breaths.

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Quote from Dr.

Pedram Shojai

“There’s billions of dollars being leveraged


and made on our attention. Our attention has
become the currency of the information age
and our attention is everywhere except on our
own lives.
If you take back your attention,
you take back your power.”
What you will need to practice
Meditation….
What is Meditation?

“A practice to familiarize oneself in an ever deepening way with the


landscape of one’s own truest self” Jon Kabat-Zinn

“A practice that makes it possible to cultivate and develop certain


basic positive human qualities in the same way as other forms of
training make it possible to play a musical instrument or acquire any
other skill.” Matthieu Ricard

“Meditation gives you the courage to be who you are….It relaxes the
inner critic.” Susan Piver

“Mindfulness is defined as paying attention in a particular way; on


purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.” Chade-Meng Tan

“ Meditation will help you experience a deeper connection to your


senses, your body, your emotions, and the boundless frontier of your
thinking mind.” Benjamin Decker
Stereotypes: What Meditation is not….

• It is not only a state that can be attained


when you are siting still with your eyes
closed but also a state that is present
more and more in complex life activities.
• Meditation is not an attempt to create a
mind that is blank and without thoughts.
• “Meditation is not a means of escaping
reality—on the contrary the practice is to
help us see reality clearly and unmask the
deep causes of suffering.” Matthieu Ricard
• Meditation is not self centered… there is
an altruistic component to the practice so
we become more present in the world.
…continued What Meditation is not….
• “Meditation is a matter not of theory but of
practice.” (M.R.)
• There is no single meditative state.
• Meditation does not limit our awareness, but
instead helps us to focus on what is
relevant. We tend to scatter thoughts on a
lot things that aren’t really important. (47%
of the time)
• Meditation doesn’t just involves the mind but
equally impacts the body.
• “It is not religious. Meditation has nothing to
do with religion. No one has to adopt any
new beliefs.” Susan Piver
How does this statement apply to
Meditation?

“If you can


see the river
that means
you are not
in the river.”
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
FORMAL PRACTICE #1
ONE MINUTE BREATH
From Joy on Demand by Chade-Meng Tan

“You may close your eyes or keep


them open. Take one slow, deep
breath. For the duration of that one
breath, give your full attention to your
breath in a gentle way. Total and
gentle attention on feeling your
breath, that is all. If you prefer more
specific instruction, bring attention to
the feeling in either your nose or your
belly as you breath.”
FORMAL PRACTICE #2
NOTICING JOY IN ONE BREATH
From Joy on Demand by Chade-Meng Tan

“Do the one Mindful Breath exercise


from practice #1, which is simply to
take one deep breath mindfully. If
any hint of joy arises anytime during
the exercise, simply notice it, that is
all. If no hint of joy arises, no
problem either; we simply notice the
absence of joy.”
FORMAL PRACTICE #3
INVITING AND ATTENDING TO JOY
From Joy on Demand by Chade-Meng Tan

“Sit in any position that allows you to be alert


and relaxed at the same time, whatever that
means to you. You may keep your eyes open
or closed.
Let us take three breaths. In the first breath,
bring gentle but intense attention to the
process of breathing. In the second breath,
calm the body. In the third breath, bring up
joy. If necessary, bring up a smile or a half
smile, whatever the words half smile mean to
you. If any joy arises, bring full attention to it.
If you like repeat this three breaths practice
a few more times.”

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