Your practise

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?

 

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

 

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.

 

Yes that as well

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

Mindful?

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Mindful of what?

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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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