Tag: restlessness

Addicted people can't meditate

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Submitted by Tania on Sat, 02/09/2008 - 01:10.
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I find it hard to meditate, I get bored and then agitated and restless as soon as I begin meditating. This stress compels me to stop.

This is natural, it is great that you admit it. There are many people, even "experienced spiritualists" that overlook this and thus get only more agitated during meditation.



Fear of Emptiness

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Submitted by abra on Mon, 02/04/2008 - 23:02.
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Emptiness = Voidness = Nothingness = Shunyata

Fear of Emptiness = horror vacui

Quotes of gurus relating to the fear of emptiness:



The now is boring, says the mind

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Submitted by divine_intervention on Tue, 01/22/2008 - 00:15.
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It's petrifying how little from the world truly exists: only the now.

Such a narrow flickering glimpse.

The past is memory. The future is simulation. And they are both occurring in the now, the recalling of the memory, the playing of the simulation. Aren't they?



Do you meditate?

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Submitted by erez on Fri, 05/18/2007 - 14:20.
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