Maintaining Inner Peace through Meditation

 Maintaining Inner Peace through Meditation

John Kabat-Zinn, a disciple of the renowned Korean monk Seung Sahn and the founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) clinics, was selected as one of the 100 most spiritually influential living people by the UK's Watkins Review. He believes that the reason we should meditate is to live a wiser life closer to the truth. He argues that without a calm mind, we live a life stumbling blindly, unable to perceive the essence of things, much like watching a sports broadcast with incorrect commentary.

Boodah's profound teachings over 45 years can be summarized in one sentence: "There is nothing in this world that I, mine, or belongs to me." It's about letting go of attachment. In every moment, in every hour, seeking 'awareness' in the ego-centric and self-absorbed thinking cannot lead to liberation from attachment.

"We already know everything," he says. By quietly listening to the voice of the mind, we empathize with the fact that we knew a lot at birth, not through knowledge acquisition such as books or education but through innate and inexplicable senses. It's about the ability of the mind to know without concepts. The symbols of universities around the world often include the word 'VERITAS,' meaning 'truth,' stemming from the phrase 'The truth will set you free.' How often do you have a conversation with yourself, not with others, during the day?

Meditation Methods

Dr. Haruyama Shigeo, born in Japan in 1940, a second-generation Korean, comes from a family of traditional Korean medicine practitioners and obtained his acupuncture license at the age of 8. He is famous for integrating Western and Eastern medicine in his practice after graduating from Dongguk University Medical School. In his book "Brain Revolution," he advises training the right brain through meditation. The left brain is centered on calculation and logic, storing knowledge acquired since birth, while the right brain serves as a repository for inherited knowledge, storing instinctive and implicit knowledge. To live a happy and positive life, he suggests living an emotional and humanistic life rather than a calculated one. While the left brain may only remember information from the days lived, the right brain has accumulated knowledge and experiences of ancestors over thousands of years. Dreams, by the way, operate in the right brain. This is why deceased parents may appear in dreams to provide guidance.

A tree does not open at night. Life is greatly influenced by the latent knowledge stored in the right brain. However, living a life dependent on the left brain leads to discomfort, a life where the soul's voice is ignored. Dr. Haruyama Shigeo presents methods to activate the right brain:

  1. Think positively and foster positive thoughts.
  2. Make light muscle exercises a habit. (Having more muscles naturally burns calories.)
  3. Make meditation a habit.
  4. Maintain a harmonious plant-based diet.

Meditation methods are simple as well.

  1. Sit with your back straight on a chair or the floor.
  2. Imagine feeling extremely stable.
  3. Imagine that your hands and feet are heavy.
  4. Imagine your heart beating peacefully.
  5. Practice abdominal breathing.
  6. Imagine your stomach being warm.
  7. Imagine your forehead feeling pleasantly cool.
  8. Visualize a pleasant scene or the scene you desire.

We are tempted by negative thoughts every day. Happiness is a choice. Do you know about the placebo effect? Imagining eating a lemon makes your mouth water. Similarly, the brain faithfully obeys what we choose. A happy life is a life in which the brain leads.

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