{"id":5947,"date":"2021-01-23T12:57:25","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T05:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/?p=5947"},"modified":"2021-01-23T13:00:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T06:00:43","slug":"meditation-leads-to-well-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/meditation-leads-to-well-being\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation Leads To Well-Being"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dharma Master\u00a0Andrew. J. Williams<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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MEDITATION LEADS TO WELLBEING<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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\u201cBenefits of meditation are now widely known and the practice of meditation has become part of the mainstream in many places around the world.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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For instance, in Australia, it has become a common place for meditation to be practised at various educational facilities such as primary schools, high schools and universities.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Also many medical practitioners encourage their patients to meditate to help the healing process. These are just a couple examples how the practice of meditation has become part of our mainstream culture.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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As His Holiness the Dalai Lama says, “If every eight year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation”. If the whole world meditated, there would be no wars, only peace.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Meditation helps us to get to know our minds, enabling us to be aware of the harmful mental states that we need to relinquish, as well as the beneficial mental states that we need to adopt, nurture and perfect. It helps us to be more calm, clear, stable and content, and helps to improve our short and long-term memory.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It also helps to enable us to communicate with others and all of nature in a more clear, peaceful and understanding way. Therefore the practise of meditation not only benefits the individual practitioner, but also all of the living beings that we come into contact with.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Meditation is for the purpose of understanding the true nature of our mind. It reveals the inner psychological world. It penetrates the ordinary, superficial perception that obscures the nature of reality. With meditation you can understand the reality of self and other phenomena, for if you understand your own mind, you will understand everything.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Without meditation we cannot realise the truth, for the mind will remain clouded with disturbing thoughts and emotions, and will become more and more confused and deluded over time. So the whole purpose of meditation is to lessen the deluded afflictions of our mind and eventually eradicate them from the very roots.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Meditation makes the mind sharper, stronger and clearer, enabling us to solve our own problems more skilfully, as well as being able to call on the power of our mind to make profound changes in our life. We will become healthier and happier, for it has been proven that there is a strong relationship between meditation, and physical and psychological wellbeing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It is only through engaging in the practise of meditation that we can transform our limited powers of concentration into extraordinary unlimited powers of concentration.”<\/div>\n
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A compilation of excerpts from a few of my articles on meditation.<\/div>\n
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Dharma Master\u00a0Andrew. J. Williams . \u00a0. MEDITATION LEADS TO WELLBEING \u25cf\u25c6\u25cf \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 \u25c6\u25c7\u25c6 \u2550\u2550\u2550\u2550 \u25cf\u25c6\u25cf \u00a0. \u201cBenefits of meditation are now widely known and the practice of meditation has become part of the mainstream in many places around the world. For instance, in Australia, it has become a common place for meditation to be practised […]\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[325,229,244],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5947"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5955,"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions\/5955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}