tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post6336123531661053274..comments2023-12-30T17:31:11.883+00:00Comments on The Solitary Walker: Just This! Just This!The Solitary Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-24008237753654849282010-03-27T21:30:35.309+00:002010-03-27T21:30:35.309+00:00Thanks everyone for these interesting comments.
G...Thanks everyone for these interesting comments.<br /><br />Grizzled, thoughts can certainly be the basis for action, whether wise or misguided. And, equally, we often act 'thought-lessly'.<br /><br />It's good to examine the way we think, see how thoughts spin round our brain, often in a seemingly haphazard fashion. It's possible, in meditation, to reach a state beyond thought - I can do this quite often, though only fleetingly. The more we practice this - being aware of our own thoughts, being aware of awareness, being mindful of our thoughts and our senses and what's happening right now in the present moment - the better we become at being able to control our thoughts, or at least to see them for what they are from some platform of sensitive awareness.<br /><br />In mindful meditation (if you can call what I do this) I don't find I experience those categories of heavy or light. I just find the activity - whether one's body is passive or in motion - brings a huge relief from any stress that may have built up. Really it's simply about seeing what's there all the time - which we're often too busy or stressed or preoccupied or thinking too many thoughts to notice.The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-90413754541932104342010-03-27T17:25:14.432+00:002010-03-27T17:25:14.432+00:00There is a Scripture in Psalms: "Be still an...There is a Scripture in Psalms: "Be still and know that I am God."<br /><br />I listened to this audio tape by a monk from a monastery in Canada back in the early 1980s, and he taught that every time you breathe in, say "Jesu", and every time you breathe out, say "Abba." This really helps to center and focus your thoughts on God.<br /><br />Now years later, I just focus on my breath. It is breathtakingly (no pun intended) simple. Breathe in, breathe out, focus on the Lord (be washed in the Word--the Word being the Lord Jesus Christ).<br /><br />There is another Scipture in Proverbs: "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." I would like to say that stillness is the beginning of serenity, inner peace and wisdom.<br /><br />Blaise Pascal once wrote that all of the evils in the world could be prevented if people would just sit still in a quiet room for one hour a day.Tim Sheyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07931913325290043598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-27974555854479324882010-03-27T08:58:43.347+00:002010-03-27T08:58:43.347+00:00thanks for sharing this
martinethanks for sharing this<br />martinemartinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14260048849955077472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-42951172049605220442010-03-26T22:49:59.699+00:002010-03-26T22:49:59.699+00:00"Mindfulness is the act of becoming aware of ..."Mindfulness is the act of becoming aware of awareness itself, standing back and watching our teeming thoughts…" I like the sound of this, but I'm not sure I actually understand it on an active, utilitarian level. I do think we are more than our thoughts (and possibly more than the awareness of those thoughts) in that thoughts form the basis and direction—the impetus—for outward manifestation (different from pure reaction—though perhaps not as much as we'd like to believe) as words or deeds; thoughts can be verbalized, written down, or put into action in the physical. And yet this doesn't explain all the "us" of us, as there often seems to be something more—a spirit or essence, something possibly undefinable but as common within the human make-up as love.<br /><br />I don't know about you, but I find when engaging in what may or may not be true meditation—both active physically or inactive—depending on which is the case, I seem to fall into two very different thought milieus…one somber, weighty, the other quick and focused. Do you experience this difference? Are your "sitting-quiet" thoughts different than your "in the zone while walking" ones?Grizz…………https://www.blogger.com/profile/04828454689578685330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-28545856796043154432010-03-26T22:18:42.146+00:002010-03-26T22:18:42.146+00:00google wont allow to send the appropriate comment,...google wont allow to send the appropriate comment, got to type something.....<br /><br /><br />:-)verenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11392259272254395337noreply@blogger.com