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How to meditate properly, and hopefully avoid wasting your life in dead end practices

By admin | Published: November 1, 2010
[This is a very brief outline, and only meant to summarise the key points.] Basics: meditation cushion [zafu] a reasonably quiet space [you don't need total silence] pen and notebook [not a computer or personal organiser] Sitting: You will need to learn about finding a simple, comfortable posture for sitting on your meditation cushion, and [...]
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Crucial points to understand about Buddhism:

By admin | Published: June 15, 2010
There are many books on popular spirituality currently doing the rounds which propose a kind of instant enlightenment, through the idea that you are already enlightened, if only you would realise it, and focus your attention on the ‘here and now’. These doctrines and teachings are at best silly and at worst seriously misleading. Enlightenment [...]
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