How to meditate like a Zen Master

Andy Rogers asked:


Regular practice of Transcendental Meditation (TM) can treat your stress-related problems such as high blood pressure, improve your mental capabilities and help you improve your relationships. Overall, TM will make you a relaxed, happier and contented person. Let’s see how this happens:

1). Improves intelligence, creativity & memory: Research has shown that the experience of pure consciousness during TM twice a day makes the mind more alert, creative, and intelligent throughout the day.

2). Provides complete rest: TM provides the mind and body with a unique and profound state of restful alertness. The body gains an extraordinarily deep state of rest while the mind settles down to a state of inner calm and wakefulness.

3). Improves health: Since both the mind and the body are rejuvenated, it leads to improved health and provides the basis for a more dynamic, productive, and satisfying life.

Is there any scientific proof of TM’s benefits? Over 500 scientific studies have been conducted on the physiological, psychological, and sociological effects of Mahesh Yogi’s TM programme. These studies have been carried out at 210 different universities and research institutions in more than 30 countries. Results of these studies have appeared in more than 100 journals, including major scientific journals such as Science , the American Journal of Physiology, Scientific American, and the Lancet. The studies have shown that a regular practice of TM is highly beneficial and leads to:Reduced stress: The deep rest that the mind and body get in TM eliminates mental and physical stress and fatigue.

Increased intelligence: The mind returns to its natural state of alertness and thus increases the person’s intelligence level.

Increased creativity: TM meditators become more creative than others because the mind is in a refreshed and relaxed state.

Improved memory: The mind’s state of alertness increases its capacity to memorise things.

Improved health: Incidence of illness and risk of heart disease is reduced significantly among TM meditators.

Reduced high blood pressure: Free from stress and anxiety, they have less chance of suffering from high blood pressure.

Improved relationships: TM meditators spontaneously radiate a purifying and nourishing influence of positivity and harmony, which improves their relationship with others in society.

Increased energy: With better health and mental state, TM practitioners are always full of energy. # Reduced insomnia: Being relieved of stress and anxiety, followers of TM experience a better and healthier sleep pattern.

Reversal of biological ageing: Those practising TM, on an average, are biologically 5 to 12 years younger.

Increased happiness: Meditators have warmer interpersonal relationships, less anxiety, increased self-esteem and self-confidence, increased problem-solving ability and greater creativity, all of which together bring more happiness in their life.

TM has helped many Japanese companies: More than 10,000 business people in Japan have learnt the TM technique. After the TM programme was conducted at Japan’s Sumitomo Heavy Industries, the employees showed a marked difference.

Isn’t it time your company enrolled for a TM programme?

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Peter sams asked:


Meditation is one of the proven alternative therapies. It can be broadly classified under the mind-body medicine.

More and more doctors are prescribing meditation as a way to lower blood pressure, improve exercise performance in people with angina, help people with asthma breathe easier, relieve insomnia and generally relax the everyday stresses of life. Meditation is a safe and simple way to balance a person’s physical, emotional, and mental states. It is simple; but can benefit everybody.

It was not till the 20th century that a need for the creation of secular forms of popular meditative techniques began to be felt. But for the most part these New Age meditative systems were little more than rehashed versions of older techniques, which had been extracted from their religious contexts. Transcendental Meditation (TM), as propagated by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, is one such version, which grew out of the Hindu practice of ‘naam japa’ or ‘yoga japa’ during the 1960’s.

MEDITATION is not concentration. In concentration there is a self concentrating and there is an object being concentrated upon. There is duality. In meditation there is nobody inside and nothing outside. It is not concentration. There is no division between the in and the out. The in goes on flowing into the out, the out goes on flowing into the in. The demarcation, the boundary, the border, no longer exists. The in is out, the out is in; it is a no-dual consciousness.

Process of Meditation

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On the physical level, meditation helps to prolong the body’s anabolic process of growth and repair, and to reduce the catabolic or decaying process. Ordinarily the anabolic process predominates until the age of 18. From 18 to 35 there is balance between the two, and after 35 the catabolic process dominates. Meditation can significantly reduce the catabolic decline. This is because of the innate receptivity of the body cells.

Each of our body cells is governed by the instinctive subconscious mind. They have both an individual and a collective conciousness. When the thoughts and desires pour into the body, the cells are activated; the body always obeys the group demand. It has been scientifically proven that positive thoughts bring positive result to cells. As meditation brings about a prolonged positive state of mind, it rejuvenates body cells and retards decay.

However, experience says that real meditation cannot occur without the grace of the master. Meditation starts with repetition of mantra and concentration of breath. Once the seeker starts meditating regularly, the mantra slowly fades out and the breathing becomes so slow that keeping count of it becomes difficult.

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Neelima Reddy asked:


Insight meditation belongs to the comprehensive body of teaching Dharma, depth awareness, inner peace, emotional and psychological insights.

Though it has been for a long time, the benefits of Insight Meditation is recognized and being practiced by many in now-a-days. Professional sport persons are using this to increase focus and attention towards their play and have derived the results.

Insight meditation practice effectively helps you to bring calm and clarity state of mind in this daily life pressures. The entire practice is a mental training, uses to develop healthy mind.

How insight meditation can be practiced?

All you need to have is “focus of your mind on your body”. If you are starting “Insight Meditation”, you need to see for a place which will not give you many distractions from the process of Vipassana.

Time is important: If you have just started to meditate, maintain a specific time. This will help you to accustom to the process of meditation. Early in the morning hours or after your work session spare a time of 15 minutes to meditate. As you have just started the meditation, this is the brush up session. As the time goes on, you get accustomed to the meditation time and you can increase the time as per your schedule.

Awareness of the body: Sit straight without straining your spinal cord. Leave all the tensions- gather your attention on to your body. Allow the eye lids to half close or close them completely without pressurizing them to close. The posture in which you sit to meditate also pays a lot. Select a good posture of sitting which suits you. Lotus, half lotus and cross-legged postures are preferred while meditating.

Choice less awareness: After calming your mind, start grabbing attention on to the body. While the grabbing of attention on to your body starts, observe the flow of images in your subconscious state of mind. Notice for the aversions and fascinations- they will give you an idea about your state of mind. If you see pleasant pictures, you have a pleasant and happy state of mind and vice versa with the other in the case of unpleasant pictures.

Grab your attention to breathing: As the time moves on, you get an idea on “insight meditation”. Move your attention from the body to breath. At this stage- your mind wanders, let it wander, but slowly bring your mind attention to the breath. Do not bug up, have patience while distracting the attention from other diversions on to your breath.

Regular practice of insight meditation will derive the benefits of:

• Decrease high blood pressure to normal.

• Decrease in the heart rate (an increase in heart rate cause heart attacks.)

• Boost up in the feeling of well being is developed

• Reduces unnecessary anxiety

• Reduces fatigue and boosts up positive energy

• Reduces depression symptoms

• Works very good in stress relaxation therapy

• Stimulates the area in brain which is responsible in calming the mind

• Immunity system is strengthened to fight against diseases

True insight meditation comes from observations, experiences, knowledge and understanding yourself. Meditation helps you in possessing physical relaxation and spiritual blissfulness. The more experience you gain in “insight meditation”, you can heal yourself, reduce pain and learn stress management. Visit Meditation Blog

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Nach-03 asked:


I read about a recent article with the following (approximate) details, but I can’t for the life of me find it. Thanks in advance!

“Secret of Good Health is Om”
J. Morgan (Head of Department)
Research and Experiment Institute of Neuroscience
United Kingdom

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Amelie asked:


I have the inattentive type of ADD and love to meditate, but have stopped, because I worry that it will slow down my mind, and I need to speed it up. How do I do it? Should I meditate again, or are there games which can help? I also need to improve my concentration and memory. I don’t want to use medication, and am already addicted to coffee, maybe because it helps a bit! I’m just sick of not noticing, getting lost, forgetting, and I need to be on the ball in my job.

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Shawn B asked:


Or the medications block you from getting ‘high’?
“without a doubt” yes or no?

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nettie asked:


Has it helped where conventional treatment has failed.

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jaye3rd89 asked:


Im not really sure how the whole meditation thing works but hey that why im here.

There are a few things in my mind that i wanna let go.
A thought/fear that i hope doesnt happen. (being cheated on)
Even though im probably being paranoid about it.. I try to forget the thought but more things come up and fuel up the thought sometimes.

Can Meditation help me forget this thought?

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savmcardle asked:


I have GAD and I’m taking Lexepro, but I just started. Right now I’m feeling really anxious and I’m wondering if anyone can share with me some techniques to lessen anxiety.

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wiwa lover! asked:


to all the smart-with-poetry people out there who can help me out with this thanx
well in the poem meditation 17 donne say’s “no man is an island” and “never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee”. What does each of these statements mean????
plz don’t give a dumb answer!

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