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sean

how has meditation changed your life?

lobster

It taught me to breath. It gives me health, calmness and all going well, Buddhahood sometime this year. :om:

It gives me joy, serenity, a satisfaction with my life and capacities. It has gives me focus, concentration, hopefully wisdom, it has simplified me, enabled minor 'siddhis' or capacities. It has increased my intuition, awareness and insight, given me patience. Meditation = Life.

Sabre

Knowing I'm not in control of my own thoughts somehow makes me feel I'm more able to 'control' them being how I like. So getting rid of worries and allowing peace. Not being afraid of what life can and will give.

sukhita

sean said:

how has meditation changed your life?

A little more attentive to my words, deeds and thoughts. But this attentiveness seems to fade if I do not keep a daily meditation schedule (coupled with virtue/morality ofcourse). That's my experience so far... not very impressive, I guess.

Jeffrey

Keeps the dharma fresh in my mind so that it does not fade as a support to me and a resolution to improve my wisdom and compassion. Or rather, it lets me have insight into how I get in the way of my own wisdom and compassion and how that comes from facing things, seeing things, and responding in my life.

how

Before finding meditation, I was I.
During meditation, I was nothing.
Later, nothing transcended everything.

So nothing changed my life,...yup, nothing at all.

lobster

nothing changed my life

. . . Nothing changes . . . :clap:

Jeffrey

"first there was no lake anymore. then there were no rocks"
The nothing, neverending story

Invincible_summer

I know this sounds cheesy, but in a way the "changes" that have occurred are so gradual/subtle (at least to me) that it just feels like a natural progression of my life. It's not like everything was dark before and now there's a light... it's more like it was sort of dim, and the light was very slowly turned on and I didn't really notice it until it was brought to my attention.

EDIT: But if I must list the changes, I suppose patience, calmness, and awareness. Patience with myself and others; calmness in the face of unexpected change; awareness of my surroundings and my actions.

tikaL2o6

Meditation has brought me closer to worldly concerns. When I was younger I had a very innocent view of the world, and all I saw value in was Nibbana. Naturally, I was drawn to meditation. Having then spent a few years pretty much devoted to meditation only - celibate, no job, no responsibilities, etc, I got to a point where I was pretty content with my meditation practice. Now I'm putting my obsession with enlightenment on the back burner and focusing more on worldly success.

footiam

sean said:

how has meditation changed your life?

I have less time for watching TV.

Stormer

It makes me more focused.

It calms my mind to think more clearly.

It helps me understand things that used to baffle me.

It lets me be more calm (As before but more so now).

Meditation is my path to happiness.