Comments on: The Many Uses of Meditation

By: Taras Vavryk

Taras Vavryk — Sat, 09 Nov 2019 09:29:32 +0000

Thank you so much, dear Makeena! Very informative and useful post on meditation!

By: Patricia Bastani

Patricia Bastani — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 16:09:58 +0000

In reply to Mark David Vinzens. Beautiful David, but did you mean ever instead of never in the third line?

By: Barbara Lachmar

Barbara Lachmar — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 14:46:32 +0000

Thank you loved this article!

By: Andrew Scott

Andrew Scott — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 22:22:10 +0000

Thank you for this wonderfully warm illuminating timely and personal article, Makeena ! 🙂 Albert Einstein once said “The greatest scientists are artists as well … All great
achievements of science must start from intuitive knowledge. I believe in intuition and
inspiration”. Learning a little about meditating is my next personal goal: I suspect a big part of that is learning to become more patient with myself! For now, I have installed the “Let’s Meditate” free app and will see where it takes me next.

By: Aaron C

Aaron C — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 19:28:48 +0000

I “failed” at meditation for many many years thinking that it required one to clear their mind. Turns out it’s a common mistake. I’d suggest beginners or ‘failed’ meditators give an app like Headspace or Ten Percent Happier (just use the free lessons) a try. They helped me a lot. Now I combine my 95 Allah’u’Abhas with some mindfulness meditation in the same sitting.

By: Mark David Vinzens

Mark David Vinzens — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 17:37:21 +0000

“At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will. This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God in us. It is so to speak His name written in us, as our poverty, as our indigence, as our dependence, as our sonship. It is like a pure diamond, blazing with the invisible light of heaven […] I have no program for this seeing. It is only given. But the gate of heaven is every- where” ― Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander