Ending Meditation

GentleJanet

How do you end your meditation? Do you stretch? Abruptly open your eyes and get up? Put your hands in a prayer pose of gratitude? Mantra?

karasti

I generally recite the refuge vows and dedicate my meditation. Sometimes I open my eyes immediately, sometimes it takes longer before I'm truly done.

caz

In the tradition I practice we have Sadhana's (prayer books) which include the correct methods for transforming the mind into a correct and beneficial state before and after meditation to help us accomplish realizations quickly.

how

By continuing the meditative inertia and intent from the static posture into physical activity.

Zero

GentleJanet said:

How do you end your meditation? Do you stretch? Abruptly open your eyes and get up? Put your hands in a prayer pose of gratitude? Mantra?

Depends - like yesterday, I jumped up and answered the door (mainly because I was waiting for a delivery and those drivers don't care if you're b*tt naked and up a ladder... they're waiting 4 seconds and then driving off to mcdonalds for a snack)...

I guess one common denominator for me is a pause... not a long pause... or a short pause... a genuine honest pause...

....and then continue.

The differences between meditation : pause : living have somewhat blurred for me

lobster

In an ideal mind condition, there is really very little difference between meditation and the normal. At the moment, the change is one of position or posture

DairyLama

GentleJanet said:

How do you end your meditation? Do you stretch? Abruptly open your eyes and get up? Put your hands in a prayer pose of gratitude? Mantra?

Generally I just sit quietly for a couple of minutes.

taiyaki

Dedication of merits.

Jeffrey

I beat on my chest and yell "hells yeah! I am the greatest"