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Did you meditate?
lobster
Crusty Veteran
in Meditation
I did.
Sometimes we need to say we did. You may talk about it.
For example my meditation today was short.
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I meditated lying down... wicked of me I know, but I felt the need and I wasn’t ready to make it to my meditation cushion. It was a short but pleasant meditation though.
Yes, short but sweet. Had the kids with me and the usual early start meant I couldn't sit until last night.
No...This morning as usual I just sat on the cushion and meditation did me...(gave me a good going over
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It's interesting in that it can 'happen' any where any time, no special time, no special equipment needed ( have mind will travel being the one-stop- meditation shop) but often we're in a habit of paying this ever-present opportunity 'no mind'....( which would be excellent if we really did pay/spend some time with "no mind" ...go figure
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Hmm...from what i gather... all we really need to do is mind how we go as we go about our morning/day/evening/night....
Mind you ....It can be harder than one thinks
I've been meditating in a chair for some time because my bum knees make it hard to get down on a cushion. Last week I got fed up with that and made a tall seiza bench to use instead. Works great! Meditation much improved. Yes, I meditated, and I'm going to do it again, no matter how much the slobbering dogs try to prevent me from doing so!
I don't really meditate in a formal way, but a lot of my time I try to keep quiet and, sometimes, I have an experience of awareness or being. Rare in my case, but I had one last night....
Thanks everyone for sharing.
I will now meditate.
It will be most excellent.
Just about to, yoga first as it limbers up the legs
I didn’t meditate this morning, I had things to do, but I may take time out to meditate this afternoon.
Tee Hee.
Good point, just as the attentive awareness can be mindful of itself ...
I may give up meditating altogether but just sit on a cushion as usual ...
https://www.kirkville.com/just-sitting-the-zen-practice-of-shikantaza/
maybe zen is for me.maybe built a personal zen vocabulary.such as just sit,just be,just do.
this is what shoshin may elude to,everyday life. is do and be,is it that simple?
Shikantaza is more or less what I do, didn't know it had a name! I love the simple, just living and being way, but have noticed that as soon as you try to describe simplicity it gets complicated! ?
Every night before slumbering, I take Refuge, and meditate and recite a mala to Tara. In the morning, I take Refuge and recite the 5 Precepts. It's a comfort to establish a routine alone, no matter how modest. If it means something to you, that's a bonus...
Exactly so.
It is the formality of a routine that manifests our orientation.
For example this morning after sitting, I chatted chanted to Avalokiteśvara which Canon cameras are named after (Kanon)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalokiteśvara
OM MANI PEME CLICK
You could not make this stuff up ... or then again ...
I meditate every night before I go to sleep. I usually do three rounds on the Mala. Lately, since my work “issue” I’ve also been meditating between 1:30am and 3:30am because I’m not sleeping very well. I usually do this meditation cross legged on the couch, in the lounge room in the dark. A few times my fiancé has woken me in the morning to get ready for work. I’m also meditating after I get home from work to unwind and centre - with varying degrees of success.
I’m lucky to have an agnostic partner who actually encourages my Buddhism.
But I think I’ll take on @federica’s practise each evening and take Refuge (but I’ll add that to my morning practise).
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I love to meditate for half an hour first thing in the morning, before getting out of bed.
I use the bells from a nearby church as timer.
This meditation, lying down, lasts for half and hour.
So yes, I did meditate today, and this is the meditation I never skip both because it is easy for me to do, but also because it sets the tone of the day.
Not that it renders me less fierce of the dragon I usually am, but at least I go about all that blustering in a more mindful way, lol...
Then, like @federica and @Kundo I revise the Five Precepts and do some rounds of mala.
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I meditate in the middle of the day (I am currently working from home) and late at night as I sometimes have trouble sleeping. I try to take Refuge and recite the Precepts every other day, switching between English and Pali. This past week, little kernels began showing up on my zabuton every time I plonked it down in the living room. Huh? A mystery. Then, oh yeah. My cushion is stuffed with buckwheat. I unzipped and there was a tear, a buckwheat leak! So I did some sewing meditation for the first time in years. Back to the cushion.
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my zafu, it's just the right height and feels like I am balanced on a mushroom, like the caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland 
Now that's an image I can't un-see...!