Meditation and Karma

KARMA

What is Meditation?

Meditation is habituating ourselves with positive, constructive and realistic attitudes.It building  up good habits of the mind. Meditation is not sitting in the full - Vajra position, with an arrow-straight back and a holly expression on our face. Mediation is done by mind. Even if the body is in perfect position, if the mind is running wild and thinking about objects of attachment, that is not mediation. 

With meditation, we transform our thoughts and views so that they are more compassionate and correspond to reality.

Benefits of meditation

By building up good habits of the mind I meditation, our daily life behavior gradually changes. Our angry is subdued, we are better able to make decision and less dissatisfied are restless. These results of meditation can be experienced now. But we should always try to have a broader and more encompassing motivation to meditate than just our own present happiness. If we generate the motivation to meditate in order to make preparation for future lives, or to attain liberation from the cycle of constantly recurring problems, or the reach the state of full enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings, then natural mind will also be peaceful now. In addition, we will be able to attain those high and noble goals.

It is very beneficial to have a regular meditation practice, even if it is only for a short time each day. Do not think “I’m a working person. I can’t meditation is helpful to us, we should make a time for it every day. Even if we do not want to meditate, it is important to keep some “ quiet  time” for ourselves each day; time when we sit and reflect upon what we do and why, time when we read a book or do some chanting. It is extremely  Important that we learn to like ourselves and are happy to be alone. keeping aside some quiet time, preferable in the morning before the activities of the day are underway, is necessary, especially in modern societies where people are so busy. We always have time to nourish our bodies; we never skip a meal because we see it is important. Like-wise, we should reserve time to nourish our mind and our inner being as well, because it too is important.