Mediation Flashcards
1
Q
List of meditations
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- Remembering the good within you
- Affirm the rightness of our wish to be happy
- Let in what comes in and let go of what leaves
- Dwell on your lovableness, capacity to feel love, capacity to love and your innate radiance
- Accept feelings of unworthiness and attachment, remember the beauty of your wish to be happy and return to the metta phrases
- Ghosts of gray
- My
2
Q
What is the main goal in meditating?
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Contemplation without guilt or judgement
The ability to let go and begin over and over again
3
Q
Metta phrases to repeat in meditation (brahma-viharas)
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- May I be free from danger
- May I have mental happiness
- May I have physical happiness
- May I have ease of well- being
- May I embody my love and understanding
- May I make a friend of my body
- May I be healed from emotional and verbal abuse and relationship trauma
- May I dwell in peace
- May I be happy. May I be well. May others be happy.
- Perhaps within everything terrible in their deepest being there is something that needs our love
- May I accept this “difficult aspect of myself”
- May I use the pain of this experience for the welfare of all
- May I be filled with loving kindness toward this “difficult aspect of myself”
- May I learn to practice impartiality, accept things as they are without becoming bitter or judgement or expecting a result
4
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Equanimity brahma-viharas (metta phrases for meditation)
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- May you be happy
- May you be free from suffering
- May your joy never cease
- All beings are the owners of their own karma
- May we accept things as they are
- May we be undisturbed by the comings and goings of events
- I will care for you but I cannot keep you from suffering
- I wish you happiness but I cannot make your choices for you
- May you be unmoved by both approval and negation
5
Q
Equanimity meditation
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All beings are the owners of their karma
Their happiness and unhappiness depend on their actions, not on my wishes for them
