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Introduction Flashcards

1
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What Ordinarily Comes To Mind When You Think About Meditation?

A

Activity of the Mind.

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What is the TRUTH about Meditation?

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Meditation begins by “Assuming A Specific Posture with our Bodies”.

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What does this “Specific Posture” form?

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The Literal Base that Meditation Rests & Depends on.

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What does the Latin word, Positura mean?

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A position.

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What does the Latin word, Ponere mean?

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To Place.

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How do you determine what the Structure and Appearance of our Bodies are in?

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  1. The position or place our bodies are in space.

2. How the different Segments of Our Body Relate to One Another.

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How Do We Create Attitudes and Self-Image?

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  1. Self-Consciously
  2. Self-Identify
  3. Project out to the World.
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What Posture Does the Alienated/Angry person project?

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The Determined Slouch

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What Posture Does A Person Attempting to Conceal Insecurities look like?

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The Overdeveloped Musculature.

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What Posture Does A Lawyer Attempting to win over a jury?

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The Affectionate of Casual Confidence.

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What do All Self-Images Depend on?

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Holding Our Bodies In Different Ways To Create A Desired Effect.

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How Can We Hold Our Bodies to Create Different Postures that express different Attitudes?

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By Tensing The Muscles in our Body & Hold Ourselves in Different Postures.

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What is the Natural State of the Human Being or Animal?

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Balanced & Relaxed.

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How Are We Able Motivate Our Body into Motion in order to Tense Our Muscles to project a Specific Self-Image?

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By Consciously Manipulating Our Bodies into Motion.

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What Can We Limit?

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The Range of Expression.

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16
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What Can We Restrict?

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The Natural Movement of Energy Within our Bodies and Minds.

17
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What Can We Forfeit?

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The Natural Ease of Balance and Relaxation is our True Birthright.

18
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How does Meditation Align Our Bodies & Minds in The Most Comfortable & Innocent Way?

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By Using The Greater Forces of Nature To Condition Us.

19
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When Are We Truly Able To Accept Ourselves?

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  1. When we are in Truth with ourselves.

2. We feel no need to be anything else than what we Naturally are.

20
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What do you find once you begin to experience Comfort and Relaxation within the Posture?

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  1. You experience a Deeper Insight Into Our True Nature.

2. You experience a Higher State of Consciousness.

21
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What Needs To Be Absolutely Perfect in order to reach A Higher State of Consciousness within the Posture?

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  1. Refinement
  2. Verticality
  3. Relaxed & Balanced
22
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How Many Meditation Techniques did The Buddha establish?

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40

23
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What is the Best Meditation Technique?

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The one you adopt.

24
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What is the most Dominated Common Technique?

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The Sitting Posture.

25
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The Act of Sitting Still is sometimes more Important than the Technique in the practice? True or False

A

True

26
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The Posture of Meditation cannot be viewed as either the Starting Point or the Final Destination? True or False

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False

27
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What is the most Basic Initial Instructions of Meditation?

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  1. Sit with the Back Straight
  2. Relax the Body.
  3. Sit Quite Still
  4. Breathe Comfortably and Naturally
28
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What does The Basic Initial Instructions of Meditation represent?

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“One of the Most Challenging Actions That We Can Attempt To Perform.”

29
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What happens what the Body attempts to begin to Focus on Relaxing while holding this Posture?

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The Body Initially Collapses:

  1. Head Hangs-Over.
  2. Front of body Shortens.
  3. Back becomes overly Elongated.
  4. Natural flow of breathe is compromised.
30
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What Helps the Body from Collapsing in the Posture of Meditation?

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The 3 Attributes of Meditation

31
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What are the 3 Attributes of Meditation?

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  1. Alignment
  2. Relaxation
  3. Resiliance
32
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What happens once All 3 Attributes flow together in Perfect Harmony?

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The Healing Energies of the Body and Mind are Naturally Activated.

33
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What happens when you project a

specific Attitude during The Specific Posture?

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The Process of Transformation has NO Choice but to Begin!

34
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What Happens Once You reach a Higher State of Consciousness?

A

A Chemical Reaction happens that activates Healing Effects to the Mind & Body.

35
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What happens when the Body & Mind Progressively Integrate?

A

The Human-made Division of Our Inner & Outer Worlds fall away.

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