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Meditation Explained

BESs

This is a helpful animation of a very old graphical guide used to explain the process of perfecting one's meditation practice. It uses visual metaphors to show the stages all great meditators must pass through to reach the highest states of consciousness. This is an invaluable map given to us by people who knew the territory well and left us instructions on how to follow them. Come back to this as your practice improves and you will see more and more in this fabulous diagram. There is a decent explanation of the stages here.

BESs

Briefly, the Monkey represents the distracted "monkey" mind we all face when first starting meditation, and the Elephant is the core of the mind itself.  Watch what happens.

BESs

Posted by DGS on February 21, 2011 at 1:17 AM 2737 Views

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2 Comments

Reply DGS
09:58 PM on April 30, 2011 
Isn't it cool how that happens?
Same images...Different you.

Flying Colors says...
Wonderful! I feel very blessed I actually understand this animation now. Thank You :-)
Reply Flying Colors
08:05 PM on April 30, 2011 
Wonderful! I feel very blessed I actually understand this animation now. Thank You :-)

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