Your practise

[Spacer]

How do you practise.....I don't go to a temple or a Dojo, I just practise on my own. I have however as you will see from my other thread started tai-chi classes so have some guidance in that and am thinking now about looking for a temple close to me to practise at because I've only realised since starting these classes how helpful guidance can be in such matters as meditation. Would people recommend going to a temple or dojo regularly or do you practise on your own aswell?

[WharfRat]

been practicing on my own but recently found a temple near home that im going to start attending both ways seem beneficial the temple however will give me more guidance

[Sebbi]

Shouldn't it be something you practice all the time.

[Spacer]

Shouldn't it be something you practice all the time.
lol, yes Sebbi very true, but I meant with regards to meditation and the guidance that one may also receive from a master at the temple. :)

[Sebbi]

Yes that as well

[darrellkitchen]

Where do you practise
At home only.
At home and go to a temple/dojo every now and then.
Always practise in a temple/dojo.

Now if you added, "At home and temple/dojo regularly," then I would have been able to vote.

Regularly means every Saturday for me, except when I'm not in town, away on vacation or attending a convention, in which case I never cease to meditate while away.

Darrell

[Cornball1]

Classes in the dojo are for learning and reviewing what you have learned. Practice at home is for improving.

[Meagain]

I went to work, mowed the lawn, vacuumed the house, unloaded a tractor, made supper, ate, did the dishes, made three beds...and now I'm in cyber space...:)

[Bikshu]

Everymorning I do my meditation and my bastardized form of puja. then I do more meditation in the eventing usually with mantras. I say mantras throughout the day.

[Zion]

The mental liberations are just as needed and the physical practices. Yesterday I masterd egolessness, today it was silence and awareness through GOD

[Chodpa]

Last year I was strung out on drugs and I couldn't do more each day that light a stick of incense, or pour some water in my seven bowls.

This year I am back to speed and I do a half hour of TM, then either a quick Chod, or short concise Vajrasattva, or Avalokiteshvara. During activity I might recite the Seven Lined Prayer, or Vajra Guru Mantra. That's pretty much all my brain can take before starting to burst into flames.

[Danishbuddha]

i mosty practice at home, but then i get the oppertunity for it i go to the temple

[Yourcrazedpoet]

only at home, but i really want to visit a temple

[Peterness]

At home and the occasional retreat...I'm aiming for 3 retraets a year, preferably in asia.

[sila]

At the moment just at home as I have just moved to a new city. Once I find an temple or center that suits I will start there.

[jnanic]

In any moment, awareness of nothingness within, letting go of each thing moment by moment, this is not just practice, it is living truth and peace and bliss, the point of it all.

Peace and love
Jnanic

[rebubla72]

i sit 2x a day at home and try to be mindful throughout the day. on Saturdays, i sit with the Sangha.

[Chodpa]

I practice at home and breaks at work and between the two when walking. No temple stuff. Rare group sessions for special days. I go to retreats every year to get straight.

[darrellkitchen]

... and try to be mindful throughout the day. ...
Mindful?

O.o?

Mindful of what?

[themnax]

Mindful?

O.o?

Mindful of what?




thank you. it is so easy to just answer questions with words and not think about them. and even a word like mindfulness, when used that way can become one of them.

but i think there is an answer to that. mindful of what? mindful to avoid causing suffering. mindful to always look for the way that causes the least of it.

as a thoroughly fallable human i'm not about to claim to be setting any sort of an example of doing so, only to mention that it is a kind of guiding star to navigate by, to aim for.

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[darrellkitchen]

... it is so easy to just answer questions with words and not think about them ...In regards to mindfulness ... I have to agree.

So I asked, "Mindful of what?"

Mindful of picking up a glass of water to drink?
Mindful of drinking?
Mindful of eating?
Mindful of swallowing?
Mindful of walking?
Mindful of sitting?
Mindful of grasping with the hand?
Mindful of the thought of grasping with the hand?
Mindful of letting go of whatever is being grasped?
Mindful of urinating?
Mindful of deficating?
Mindful of sitting on the toilet?
Mindful of picking up a razor to shave?
Mindful of shaving?
Mindful of rinsing off the razor?
Mindful of putting the razor back in its place?
Mindful of bathing?
Mindful of picking up the soap?
Mindful of washing with the soap?
- or - lathering up the wash cloth?
Mindful of rinsing off?
Mindful of drying oneself?
Mindful of putting your clothes on?
Mindful of the feeling of clothing on the skin?
Mindful of taking your clothes off?
Mindful of putting on shoes?
Mindful of wearing shoes?
Mindful of taking shoes off?
Mindful of opening doors?
Mindful of reaching for the door to open it?
Mindful of closing doors?
Mindful of driving?
Mindful of getting in the car?
Mindful of sitting in the car?
Mindful of getting out of the car?
Mindful of smoking?
Mindful of lighting a cigarette?
Mindful of inhaling?
Mindful of exhaling?
Mindful of breathing?
Mindful of blinking the eyes?
Mindful of blowing the nose?
Mindful of walking?
Mindful of where you put your foot when walking?
Mindful of the insects and other smaller beings you step on?
Mindful of talking?
Mindful of what you say when you talk?
Mindful of how what you say impacts others?
Mindful of your own desires?
Mindful of your own aversions?
Mindful of how your own desires and aversion impacts others?
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... and the list just keeps going and going ... just like the energizer bunny!
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You see, there's a lot to be mindful of ...

When I see, or hear people say, how mindful they are, I can't help but doubt they have any idea or clue what they are saying.

It easy to be mindful of drinking water. But. Is one mindful of the intention to extend the arm to the cabinet to get a glass. To open the cabinet. To reach for a glass. To grasp the glass. To remove the glass from the cabinet. To put the glass under the faucet. To reach for the faucet to turn it on. To turn on the faucet. To fill the glass with water. To have the intention to turn off the faucet when the glass is full of water. To turn off the faucet. To pull the hand away from the faucet. To pull the hand with the glass away from the faucet. To draw the glass to the mouth. To open the mouth. To tip the glass up to pour water into the mouth. To pull the tongue back to pull in water. To swallow the water. To pull in more water. To swallow more water. To pull the glass away from the mouth. To intend to set the glass down, or to continue holding on to it. To set the glass down. To let go of the glass. To pull the hand away from the glass. ... All this just to drink water ... is one mindful of all these movements and the even smaller ones between?

There's a lot to be mindful of. Undoubtedly more than just mere drinking of water.

So ...

Again, I ask ...

Mindful of what?

[Hobes]

well we separated from the temple (we are part if SGI) so we do pray in our own house holds.