On Sat, Sep 4, 2021 at 09:23 AM, Emily Mae wrote:
Suffering occurs when rajas and tamas predominate over sattva and cause our actions to be unsatisfactory. YMMV.
Suffering is a state of mind, imo.??
According to Patanjali,
"Yoga is the stilling of the mind." - Yoga Sutra 1.2
Everyone meditates - there's probably nobody on the entire planet who doesn't meditate. Meditation simply means to
'think things over', and almost everyone pauses at least once or twice a day to take stock of their own mental contents. Meditation is just what intelligent people do. YMMV.
Meditation is based on thinking, and anyone who thinks, meditates. All you have to do is sit with your eyes closed and BE: be aware of being aware. It's that simple.
According to Shunryu Suzuki, a famous Zen Master, all you have to do is sit - that's it! Sitting IS awareness. You are not going to get any more enlightenment than you are going to get.
