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Why do I meditate? Shanti
What are the reasons why you meditate?
I meditate because I refuse to accept that people are things.
We are all living beings, it doesn’t matter who you are and what you have, you count. You matter just as much as anyone else.
The materialistic values that currently dominate human consciousness are illusions. Meditation keeps me real. Don’t turn inwards, we are all connected.
Things are inanimate objects, people are sentinent beings. I practice compassionate meditation to keep love alive in myself and to share it with those who wish for an end to suffering.
I am a friend to all, I will never abandon my brothers and sisters that need me. That is is one reason why I meditate.
If you wish to share the reasons why you meditate, drop us a line. In less than 100 words, tell us about your motivation to practice.
Neuropsychologist researching what happens when a spiritual practice (meditation) is translated to a psychological intervention; what is lost and what is gained from the curative potential?
A PhD candidate writing the scientific history mindfulness. Also researching how compassion and explicitly nondual meditation methods influence our physical and mental health.
Stephen has decades of personal practice in spiritual and secular forms of meditation, he has also been trained in the Himalayan Science of Mind and Perception (Tsema). Alongside the teaching and research of nondual methods, Stephen trains his own brain every day with Dzogchen practices.
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