Sunday, May 17, 2009

Book: "Buddhism for Busy People" and going to Meditation classroom

I've been interested in Tibetan Buddhism, and recently I thought I wanted to know its teaching a bit more deeply. (A little bit)
First, I tried to read "Buddhism for Busy People" written by David Michie. Japanese title is different at all. If I translate it into English, it's "Travel of Awareness."

I was not going to belong to any religion and not going to do any training. I just want to know the teaching. However, after I read this book, I started to think about doing meditations. The book says that just knowing is meaningless and practice is important.

There seems to be many kind of meditations. The book introduced some of them and I paid attention to
Thong Len meditation. Anyway, any meditations seem to be difficult.

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A few days after reading the book, I found that Thong Len meditation workshop would be held soon. What a coincidence! I applied for it soon, then I went to participate in it yesterday.

Hmm... I was a bit disappointed with the workshop, but at least I could learn correct pose (the way of sitting). I think I got much less value for money though...

I'll start doing meditations, anyway.

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