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Been meaning to give meditation a proper exploration for a while now. I've started learning about it several times in the past, but always get put off when they (workshop facilitators, authors etc) invariably start getting very abstract/'hippyish' with it. It's far too distracting constantly having to humour their fuzzy definitions. Does anyone know of any good resources for learning it in a practical/intelligent manner?

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02-15-2012 , 01:06 AM

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fonteles

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if we stop playing and quit poker we ll not need all this op stuff.

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02-15-2012 , 01:50 AM

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Slangenkind

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Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 155

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Originally Posted by Yaksha

A 10-day vipassana course is as practical/intelligent as it gets.

http://video.server.dhamma.org/video/intro/vintro.htm

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02-15-2012 , 03:42 AM

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SlowHabit

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If you would like to feel good for the rest of the day, drink a glass of water the moment you wake up. Just wake straight to the kitchen and drink that glass of water before you do anything.

The reason is when we are asleep, we are literally being dehydrated for hours. That's why our lips are dry/chapped every morning.

Of course, drink more water during the day but the initial step is crucial.

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02-15-2012 , 03:55 AM

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SKEEZ

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Good read Steve, this has helped me alot =)

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02-15-2012 , 04:19 AM

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lofcuk

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Awesome post

I think this may be linked, in other links but anyway...

http://www.thebigview.com/buddhism/eightfoldpath.html

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02-15-2012 , 06:25 AM

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ginko

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Originally Posted by MicroBob

It's a nice post and some of this meditation stuff is along the lines of what I've been contemplating lately and I enjoyed some of the basic ideas in there. But I also have to call you out on the 30 minute thing:

I'm pretty sure that's exactly what you were saying and you couldn't have been more clear:

You weren't saying, "hey...get away if you're tilting." You specifically referred to how long your brain can go before it needs a break whether you took a bad beat or not.

If what you really were saying was this:

then you wouldn't have made the reference to 30 minutes in the first place. You would have just said, "sit out after a bad beat."

I'm not debating the advice either way. But it's kind of funny to go so specifically into "sit out EVERY 30 MINUTES" and then say "I'm definitely NOT to quit your tables every 30 minutes."

Stop being a nit. I read "break every 30 minutes" and interpreted it as "take breaks frequently. That's good advice for most players out there.

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02-15-2012 , 06:35 AM

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perplexed76

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Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 985

for pragmatic guys who dont trust yoga,meditation and other bullsht...
maybe this will help
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...gcamadlmaghfcm

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02-15-2012 , 09:46 AM

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junky monkey

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Originally Posted by perplexed76

for pragmatic guys who dont trust yoga,meditation and other bullsht...
maybe this will help
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...gcamadlmaghfcm

installed it, can't get it to work though

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02-15-2012 , 03:18 PM

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Bill Haywood

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On the clutter of thoughts in your mind:

I read a book called something like 6 Minute Meditation or something, or was it 7?

It had one sentence that was like a bolt of lightning to me. It said the secret to meditation was to accept what is.

You just accept the fact that random thoughts will keep intruding, but you remain detached, and let them go. You don't force silence because that only makes the thoughts stronger. You just accept a river of thoughts flowing past you, but just let them go and not allow them to attach to other thoughts and become a string leading from one thing to another.

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02-15-2012 , 03:55 PM

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lofcuk

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Originally Posted by Bill Haywood

Spot on. As it says in the meditation thread, it takes practise, because your mind is not used to filtering out the noise. The technique is to acknowledge the thought then go back to your breathing, or whatever mindfullness you are practising.

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02-15-2012 , 04:19 PM

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eazygoing

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nice thread OP. i was always interested in meditation and i've already read some books/articles about neurology, mindsetting, luzid dreaming and so on. i am about to take yoga sessions with an asian friend of mine, hoping to achieve more inner balance in my life and if i'm running good i will get the girl as well.