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Pearls of Inner Wisdom : หน้า 88/114 Learn to focus your mind using visualization and gentle relaxation techniques. Improve your meditation practice with simple methods to achieve mindfulness.
This text outlines techniques for focusing the mind during meditation, comparing the experience to a feather gently touching water. It emphasizes relaxation at the center of the abdomen, using visualization of a diamond as a meditative focus. By maintaining ease and simplicity, the reader is encouraged to avoid tension and to recite the mantra 'Samma Arahang' for mental purification. The overall goal is to cultivate a calm, focused mind for deeper meditation. For more information, visit dmc.tv.
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-Meditation techniques -The importance of relaxation -Visualization in meditation -Mindfulness practices -Mantras for purification
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Simply maintain your mind, softly, and gently, in the middle of your
abdomen. The way that you focus your mind at the centre of the
body, is by comparing it to the lightness, and gentleness of a bird's
feather, that is floating down from the sky and touching the calm
surface of some water.
Conjure up the soft feeling of the touch of a bird's feather when it
reaches the surface of the water. Focus your mind at the centre of
the body with the same feeling. Maintain the feeling of relaxation of
your body and mind continuously, while you focus your mind at the
centre of the body in the middle of your abdomen. After you've found
the starting point to focus your mind, softly imagine the meditation
object within you, so that the mind can have something on which
to focus, and so that your mind will not wander. You can imagine a
diamond, a flawless diamond, of any size you like. Let it be as round
as a clear, pure, crystal ball and bright as the midday sun, cool and
soothing as the moonlight on a full moon night.
To imagine this object, you need to know the method. Slowly imagine
the object, with ease. Relax. Keep it as simple as thinking of a football,
a tennis ball, a ping pong ball, or anything that is familiar. Do not
force your mind to think of the object to the point that it makes you
feel tense. Do not use too much effort. Or else, you will stare at it;
that is the wrong method. Gently imagine the object, and relax. It
does not matter if it is not clear. Be satisfied with it however clear it
is. And maintain your mind calmly, let it stop and be still. Think of
that diamond continuously, which is as round as a clear, pure, crystal
ball. Do not let your mind wander. If you do think of something else,
maintain your mind by reciting the mantra.
Recite the mantra in your mind softly, as if the soft sound were
coming from the centre of the clear crystal ball, in the middle of your
abdomen. Recite the mantra, "Samma Arahang, Samma Arahang,
Samma Arahang", which means: 'purifying the mind'— to help
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