I have recently acquired some books
on meditation and have been trying to discipline myself into
doing a little meditation now and then. Here is an exercise you
might like to try which outlines the starting technique.
Extract from the book Learn To
Meditate by David Fontana
- Sit and relax. Close your
eyes and turn your attention inward. As objectively as you
can, watch the thoughts that pass through your awareness.
Don't judge them or attempt to hang on to pleasant ones, or
push unpleasant ones away. Just watch.
- Notice the nature and content
of your thoughts - how one thought leads to another, and how
quickly a chain of associations is set up. Notice how
these associations sometimes follow a single theme, or go off
at a tangent into a quite different set of considerations.
Notice how intent your mind seems on distracting your
attention, and observe the strategies it uses to do so.
- Notice how in easily your
objective awareness does in fact disappear, and you become
"lost" in your thoughts. Each time this happens gently
re-establish awareness.
- Continue the exercise for as
long as seems comfortable. Afterward, write down what you
have discovered about your mind.
If nothing else it allows you to sit
and do nothing for a short time.
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A high degree of etiquette should
be observed by students, both inside and outside the dojang. This
should be applied by lower ranking students to senior students
while training, by higher ranking students to elder students
outside of the training hall, and by all students when visiting
another dojang. In all cases, emphasis should be placed on
correct and proper salutation. it is a form of respect and
courtesy in western as well as oriental societies.
It is indeed poor taste for a black
belt to slight a beginning white belt who might well be the
instructor's senior in both age and station. Students visiting
other dojangs, whether they be Taekwon-Do or other martial arts,
must pay proper respect and observe the traits of modesty and
courtesy at all times.
From the
pen of the General.
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Quotes |
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Only a life lived for others is worth
living. Author: Albert
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When you are kind to someone in
trouble, you hope they'll remember to be kind to someone else, and
it'll become wildfire.
Author: Whoopi Goldberg |
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