Don't Forget Now; Meditation IS Movement!

When I come across many so called 'Buddha Enquirers', (as well as those who say that practice Buddhism or who proudly wear the label) what they seem to LOVE about the idea of the Buddhist Way is that it's one of peace and tranquility and quietness. 

It's taken as a way where seemingly, there's no interaction, no movement, no need to really do anything much to attain the peace and harmony and tranquility within, something that so many search for and wish to attain.

And yes, that's made all the more pleasing to the eye because the dreamy images we see of The Buddha. The pictures and statues of him sitting under a tree with legs folded, of lying horizontal with not a care or worry on the face, of hands in lap and eyes closed.

Now if that was all one had to DO to become 'enlightened', we'd see millions of people around the world with ZERO worries, problems or concerns.

They'd just be sitting under a tree or closing their eyes in a dreamy state, and that would be it.  

Of course, that's not the case.

Far from it.

And that's because meditating without practical application to live ones life each day in a productive and happy way, is a powerful recipe for delusion, confusion and a messed up mind. And I can't tell you how many Buddhists have messed up minds. How many non-Buddhists have messed up minds.

Get this fact: The Buddha - Siddhartha Gautama - was a human being who learnt how to master his mind. He did it by taking on teachers to help him reach deeper levels of awareness within his own mind.

And then, when he mastered the process... what he did was to use that mind technology to show others how to live with happiness and harmony. And not only to monks and those who wanted to dedicate their lives to living and teaching the mind technology, but to everyday folk, homeowners, business people.

APPLICATION 

So when you have a disturbance going on externally around you, whether at home, your workplace, with friends, family or colleagues; note that the response or reaction to it is happening internally, first. And, without awareness or equanimity you'll be like a human explosive, reacting without carefully thinking... reacting without checking your own personal awareness system of what's actually going on inside your own mind.

Deeply understanding the actual breathing and mind awareness technique the Buddha used to fix his own manic monkey mind, is something that will help fix YOUR mad manic monkey mind. I personally learnt the technique beginning some 25 or so years ago because it troubled me that growing up in a Buddhist household, where dogma and recitation was the order of the day, mediation techniques were not even on the menu!

So, am I always tranquil and peaceful when an unwanted situation arises or when something I want to have happen, doesn't happen? No. Not always. At times my mind is like a burning furnace though I've learnt how to damp out the flames before my whole life catches fire.

And yes, because of living and incorporating the mind technology practice into my everyday life and into my everyday actions and activities, I'm happier more often than not.   

I'd be a soul lost to the world if all I did was to learn the process and live like a hermit, a recluse, a one-man band within my own home.

There's practical power in meditating with your everyday movements. It wasn't created only for those times sitting under the tree or living in silent contemplation.

 

Of course NOT!! You Don't Have to Be a 'Buddhist' to Have a Buddha Mind!

What's a 'Buddha Mind?'

A mind full of love, power, grace and compassion. And, COMMITTED ACTION.

And here's the great news: you don't necessarily need feel that you can't own a Buddha Mind if you've already been indoctrinated into a formal religion. Look, you don't even need to 'be Buddhist' to have that Buddha Mind!

That's because love, power, grace and compassion isn't attached to any religion, dogma or rigid structure or belief.

Look closely at them, these traits are universal. They'll find the person who wants to embrace them - no matter who they are, no matter where they come from, no matter what systematised religion (or not) they may follow.

The Buddha Mind is simply a metaphor for the good that can go on inside you - without the need or necessity to tie yourself up in a bunch of guru or mantra based knots.

To acquire the Buddha Mind, you don't need to touch a statue, you don't need to recite parables, scriptures or mantras. And, you definitely do not need to wear specific clothes, shave your head or have a tattoo that tells the world you're a Buddhist.    

The TRUE Buddha Mind is all about a life in action.

Meditation without movement is the recipe for self delusion.

Reciting the words of the Buddha without taking one ounce of practical action is the same as being able to read but never picking up a single book thereafter.  

None of that has any practical benefit. 

Now, acquiring the Buddha Mind isn't a topic for discussion or to play intellectual games with (and many love doing that instead of using it to better one's life). Your one aim must be to use it to better your life and the life of others. Anything else is ego based intellectualism.

This website is about firing up your Buddha Mind SO YOU CAN BENEFIT, here and now, in the present moment - and NOT in some far off distant future of which you have no control.

You only have control over your present moment, in the here and now.

Because, it's in the HERE AND NOW that you can fire up your Buddha Mind... and... it's only, in the here and now that you can FIRE IT UP to create committed action!

And it all happens through powerful, concentrated, AWARENESS.

And yes, stay with this website because you'll get to that level of awareness that will... FIRE UP YOUR BUDDHA MIND.