Most important aspects of Cultivation?

[Spirit Ape]

I would like to see what people feel is the most important aspect of there Meditation practices i will give mine alittle later but if you do either stillness, spontaneous, visualization etc, what would be the most important part of that whole meditation you do?

 

Spirit Ape

[Stigweard]

Breathing.

[Spirit Ape]

Agree, what type of breathing do you practice in your cultivation methods?

[Stigweard]

Agree, what type of breathing do you practice in your cultivation methods?

 

 

Generally it comes in and then it goes out again

 

Breathing, becoming more and more aware of the breath, mind and body united. Breathing and uniting with the flow of energy. Breathing, leting stress, tension and pain leave the body. Breathing, feeling the channels open. Breathing, feeling the organs fill with vitality. Breathing, feeling the energies unify into one purified essence.

 

Just breathing.

[Aetherous]

I would like to see what people feel is the most important aspect of there Meditation practices i will give mine alittle later but if you do either stillness, spontaneous, visualization etc, what would be the most important part of that whole meditation you do?

 

Letting go.

[wudangquan]

Darkness within darkness.

[Spectrum]

The ebb and flow of moments of absolute movement balanced with moments of absolute stillness.

[Tao99]

Every word and every act

can be a source of fortune or calamity

 

Even if you can manage the branches skillfully,

that is not as good as disciplining the root crudely

 

Watching the root,

manage the branches

 

Sima Chengzhen, Treatise on Sitting Forgetting

[Pietro]

Holding the One

Integrating what was missing

Holding the One

Integrating what was missing

Holding the One

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