Awareness And Meditation

Every journey begins the same, with a first step. Meditation begins the same way. The first step for meditation is awareness. Awareness carries you along and sustains you on your journey, each step of the way; from the first step to the last.

No matter which path or technique you choose, the secret of meditation is in the development of focus and in directing your awareness.

Different Ways To Develop and Use Awareness:
1. Developing your your concentration on a particular object will increase your powers of awareness.

2. Practice receptive awareness when you have stabilized your concentration. This will help you illuminate the full range of your experience.

3. Further concentration will cultivate positive emotions and mind-state.

4. Use awareness to investigate your inner experience and contemplate the nature of existence itself.

Major uses of awareness throughout the world’s great meditative traditions:
1. Concentration
2. Receptive Awareness
3. Contemplation
4. Cultivation

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