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Diligence during chanting/meditation
As a beginner to Buddhism and as I've only chanted once as an experiment, I was wondering what is the best way to be mentally diligent during chatning and/or mediation? To motivate me, I wrote down a list of things to chant for and between chants I empthatised with the things I chanted for (for example, one was my mother's happiness and I tried to feel how she would feel in a depressive situation) and made my way through the list.
My thought process was shut off, apart from that. My basic plan was chanting, making my way through the list by emphatising and thinking of what I was chanting for, and chanting again.
Could I be missing out on something that would making chanting/meditating more meaningful? Is there a form of thought process to stick by and how can I keep myself diligent to it? Perhaps chanting/meditation is dynamic and is different from one person to another, but generally speaking, what would be a diligent way to make chanting more than just chanting?
My thought process was shut off, apart from that. My basic plan was chanting, making my way through the list by emphatising and thinking of what I was chanting for, and chanting again.
Could I be missing out on something that would making chanting/meditating more meaningful? Is there a form of thought process to stick by and how can I keep myself diligent to it? Perhaps chanting/meditation is dynamic and is different from one person to another, but generally speaking, what would be a diligent way to make chanting more than just chanting?
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