Most of us know that the mind affects the body and the body affects the mind. Hence it is ideal if we have both a healthy mind and also a healthy body. Although the body is impermanent, we still have to take good care of our physical body in order to function properly as well as to support us in our spiritual development. After attending a liver & gall bladder detox programme in Koh Samui, Thailand, it dawned on me that our physical body requires a thorough cleansing from the inside out. I used to think that doing colon hydrotherapy is good enough and was very surprised that more stuff could be expelled from going through a proper liver detox programme. It was a relatively tough regime of no solid food, taking fibrogel, laxatives, and olive oil & fruit juice connoction for several days. But the amount of solid materials that came out was simply amazing - cancer cells, gall stones, cholesterol etc. After going through one programme, I could already feel the much needed physical relief. However, one treatment is not enough as many of us were told that the amount of discharge forms only the tip of the iceberg !!! and a lot more stuff still remained in our bodies. Hence I shall have to return for more treatments.
Friday, July 8, 2016
Tuesday, July 5, 2016
Open Awareness Meditation
I recently attended a "Mindful Awareness & Serenity" workshop session with Bhante Aggacitta over the weekend. One of the key takeaway from the workshop is open awareness or dynamic serenity. It is best to do this meditation with eyes open using the five senses of sight, sound, smell, taste and contact to be aware of the present moment. We can be aware of present objects through the five senses. However, the mind (sixth sense) can take in past, present, and future objects. Because the monkey mind can propel us into daydreaming, we can make use of this meditation to help anchor our mind to the present moment. Here are the tips to ensure that happens - free & easy, touch & go. Free & easy means letting the mind go free to wander from one sense base to another, with both the mind & body totally relaxed. Touch & go means moving on and not hanging on to any of the five senses. Another interpretation mens see & see only, hear & hear only.... and so on. Which also means no labelling of any of the five senses, or the mind can easily wander off to create stray thoughts to frustrate our meditation practice. Do not allow the mind to pull our consciousness back to the past or dwell on the imaginery future because thinking of the past & future is just a delusion.
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