Experience the Exuberance
聖道冥想是聖道禪修的重要手段,它很簡單,你只有按照它持續打坐15到20分鐘,就會獲得一種獨特而切實的幸福感。之後,你會像充足了電一樣,有更充沛的精力和更高的效率,你會更自信、更具創造力。做聖道冥想一段時間之後,所有周邊的人都會感受到你的正能量,反過來,你也會發現整個世界都在“图谋”来幫助你(《牡羊少年奇幻之旅》之語)。簡單說,你會變得更有魅力。如果你不像其他人那樣關心生意或职业生涯,你同樣會因練習聖道冥想得到巨大回報,你會更健康,更不易生病。你的身體就像一座守護森嚴的城堡,疾病難以找到入口和落腳點。你的老化過程會變得緩慢,甚至可能會逆轉而更年輕。當然,這一切不會在一夜之間得到。你需要每天做兩次聖道冥想(好吧,不這樣你也會部分受益,就像我多年前所做的那樣,但我後悔沒有每天都做兩次了。)聖道冥想很簡單,但需要你有耐心堅持下去,不要輕易放棄。請記住,,「所有優秀的事物,得到之困難正如他們之稀有」,這是偉大哲學家斯賓諾莎曾說過的話,簡單說,好東西得來不易,所以就少有人得到。幸運的是,許多人做這個冥想的時候,很快就能體驗到一些幸福感,儘管不是完全的,所以他們願意繼續下去,有時甚至上癮,當然,這是正面意義上的上癮。而且,做聖道冥想越多,堅持時間越久,你的大腦神經元網路就會越密集,強度也越大,上面說的這些好處也越明顯,而且,隨著一個人年老,這將有利於減少患老年疾病的可能性。如果你知道健身對人有好處,那麼冥想就是健腦,對人的健康絕對有好處,不亞於健身。
你會問我,你怎麼知道這些呢?其實,這不是什麼新鮮事。冥想已經被很多研究證明具有健康益處,美國的很多大公司都有類似的“正念冥想”項目,幫助員工參與。很多大學和研究機構也做過研究,發現做冥想的人有更活躍的腦電圖、聯繫更密集的神經元網絡,特別是與超覺靜坐運動(TM)相關的研究人員也做了大量研究。其實我就是從TM開始做冥想的。那麼,聖道冥想有什麼特別之處呢?好問題,聖道冥想起始於TM,因此有TM的一切好處,主要是簡單易學有效。那為什麼不繼續TM呢?
首先,TM從來沒有提到過聖道冥想強調的那種有形的可以體會到的幸福感。儘管許多 TM 實踐者可能也體驗到了,但聖道冥想鼓勵去體會和嚮往這一點。第二,TM已經成了一個搞個人崇拜的組織,甚至有邪教的嫌疑,例如他們崇拜TM創始人瑪哈理士和其他印度大師。聖道冥想不要這樣。我們感謝瑪哈理士把TM方法從印度帶到了世界,但是這個方法所依賴的一切都是來自宇宙的創造者,自然法的創造者,也可以稱為聖道(Logos),我們只感謝這個創造者就好,不崇拜其他任何個人。第三,TM程序現在很複雜,這根本沒必要。當瑪哈理士向世界介紹TM時,世界之所以很快就接受了它,是因為它很簡單。連瑪赫理士也說:「這非常簡單。他們一直告訴我,我必須把事情複雜化,這樣人們才會認為我在說一些重要的事情。” 第四,TM組織向學習者收取天文數字的費用,以此盈利,老師必須經過付學費學很多複雜的東西,得到證書才能教學生。這完全沒必要,好東西大家分享。最後,也是重要的,聖道冥想是聖道禪修的一部分,聖道禪修強調聖道,從聖道那裡理解自然規律和意識運作的知識,從聖道那裡汲取能量
所以在聖道冥想中,我們保持簡單,保持獲得幸福感。
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Through Logos Meditation (LM), a simple meditation method, you will get a blissful feeling unique and tangible each time you practice it. Each LM section lasts about 15-20 minutes, after which you will be like battery fully charged and are able to continue to do whatever in your hands with more energy, more confidence, more creativity and higher productivity. Your increased positivity will be felt by all those close to you and you will find the whole world conspires to help you succeed, as the legend said in the popular book “Alchemist”. Simply put, you will become more charismatic. If you do not care about business as much as others, you will also get rewarded, i.e. you will be more healthy and less vulnerable to diseases. Your body is like a well guarded castle and diseases find it hard to find a footage or an entry point. You will age slowly and may even reverse to be younger. Of course, you do not get these results over night. LM needs to be practiced twice a day and everyday (all right, you may get partial benefit if you do it once in a while, just as I did years ago, but I regret it). The method is simple, but it requires you to be patient, persevere, and do not easily give up. Remember, “all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare”, as the great philosopher Spinoza once said. Fortunately, many people experience some blissfulness immediately so they are more inlined to continue, sometimes even addictively, in a positive way. Last but certainly not the least, the more you practice, the more strengthened and expansive your brain’s neuron network will become, so you will get all the benefits mentioned above more as you practice more, and that will benefit you when you age as you will be less likely to get the diseases associated with older age.
How do I know this? The benefits from meditation have been generally proved in medicine, and that is why many companies provide their employees mindfulness program, a type of meditation in which you focus on being intensely aware of what you're sensing and feeling in the moment, without interpretation or judgment. Many universities have done research to show the benefit.
Among the researchers, many are associated with the Transcendental Meditation movement. In fact, I started meditation with TM. Then why not continue to be with TM? First, TM never mentioned the tangible bliss I experienced and mentioned. All meditation methods including TM mention about inner peace, focused attention, serenity, and so on, but we emphasize the blissful feeling in addition to all these. Why not, life should be blissful. Second, TM has become a cult with complicated procedures like worshipping Maharishi and other Indian Gurus, we do not wish to do this. We appreciate Maharishi to bring the method to the world from India, but the method, the brain and consciousness mechanism are all from the universe creator, the natural law creator, i.e. the logos, (partially through evolution,) thus we only worship the the creator. Third, TM organizations are charging disciples astronomical amount of money, we do not. Fourth, TM dictates complicated procedure, teachers have to go through a long process to get a certificate, paying a lot of money of course. This is unnecessary. When Maharishi introduces TM to the world, the world quickly accepted it simply because it is simple. Even Maharishi said, ““It’s so very simple. They keep telling me I must make it complicated so that people will think I’m saying something important.”
So in Logos Meditation, we keep it simple, keep it blissful.