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SUMMARY:Monthly Meditation Practices
DESCRIPTION: \nINSIGHT MEDITATION CLASS\nIN THE WAY OF THE BUDDHA\nAT NMR MEDITATION CENTER\n\n \nWhat is Meditation?\nMeditation refers to the mental activity of sustaining conscious awareness on one thing\, perception\, concept\, process or sensation. This may be\, for example\, the process of breathing\, an external object\, the concept and emotion of loving-kindness\, a meaningful word\, a physical sensation or the perception of impermanence Meditation can be done in any posture\, but the most common ones are sitting cross-legged and walking back and forth. As mindful attention becomes increasingly continuous\, the dispersed and distracted energy of the mind becomes more focused and clear. The act of sustaining awareness calms and soothes both the body and mind\, while the focusing of attention energizes and brightens the mind.\nThe deeper the mediation becomes\, the more quiet\, still and blissful one feels. This cleansed and purified awareness\, developed through repeated training\, yields extraordinary clarity of mind. One begins to see things as they truly are\, beyond the limitations of conditioned perceptions and habitual thought patterns. As one sees clearly\, wisdom is born\, and thus serenity and insight form an inseparable pair that is gradually cultivated through meditation.\nThere are two lands of mental culture\, namely; Concentration meditation (Samatha Bhavna) and Insight meditation (Vipassana Bhavna). The details of meditation practice cannot be given here but those who want more information about meditation practice may contact Wat Nawamintararachutis of Cambridge-Boston Massachusetts USA at the mailing address provided below. Wat Nawamintararachutis 382 South Street East Raynham\, MA 02767\nEmail: watnawamin2545@yahoo.com\, Web Site: www.watnawamin.org\, Facebook: watnawamintararachutis Boston\nNMR Meditation Center Schedule\nPlease arrive 9 minutes early for Meditation.\nPlease wear white cloth colors to the NMR Meditation.\nPlease do not wear shorts and sleeveless tops.\nSaturday\n04:00 AM Wake up / Practice\nTaking the Eight Precepts\n06:00 AM Morning chanting.\n07:00 AM Morning breakfast\n08:00-11:00 AM Practice Meditation\n11:00 AM Lunch break\n01:-05:00 PM Practice Meditation\n05:00 PM Break / drink “Nam Pana” / Take a bath\n06:00-09:00 PM Evening chanting and Practice Meditation\n09:00 PM Rest by contented with eyes\, ears\, nose\, tongue body and mind\nSunday\n3.30 AM Bell (wake up call)\n4.00 AM Morning chanting\nSitting meditation\, walking meditation\n5.30 AM Practice Meditation breathing exercise.\n7.00 AM Breakfast for all practioners.\n8.30 AM Walking meditation\n9.00 AM Sitting meditation\n9.30 AM Walking meditation\n10.00 AM Sitting meditation\n10.45 AM Spread loving-kindness & break\n11.00 AM Lunch break for all\n01.00 PM Walking meditation\n01.30 PM Sitting meditation\n02.00 PM. Closing Practice Meditation\nDisrobing/leaving from the Eight Precepts\nAnd taking the five Precepts\nMeditation schedule is as follow:-\nJanuary 29th-30th-31st\, February 26th -27th-28th \, March 25th-26th-27th\, April 22nd -23rd -24th \, May 27th -28th -29th\, June 24th- 25th-26th\, July 29th -30th- 31st\, August 26th-27th-28th\, September 23rd-24th -25th\, October 28th-29th -30th\, November 25th-26th-27th\, December 30th-31st \, 2016 and January 1st \, 2017\nWe welcome everyone to join our Meditation program.\nBuddhism Begins Where Science Ends\nScience can give no assurance herein. But Buddhism can meet the atomic challenge\, because the supramundane knowledge of Buddhism begins where science leaves off. And this is clear enough to anyone who has made study of Buddhism. For\, through Buddhist meditation\, the atomic constituents making up matter have been seen and felt\, and the sorrow or unsatisfactoriness(or Dukkha)\, of their “arising and passing away” (dependent on causes) has made itself with what we call a ‘soul’ or ‘atma’ the illusion of Sakkayaditthi\, as it has called in the Buddha’s teaching. Egerton C. Baptist\, in “Supreme Science of Buddhism”
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