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Meditation
Meditation for Beginners
Happiness in every way
By Luang Phaw Dhammajayo
As you meditate on a daily basis, you will notice the
positive changes in your life, whether it is sleeping in peace or waking up in
peace, sitting, standing or walking with happiness. Your face will brighten and
your skin will be rejuvenated. These features will attract others. Your speech
will be powerful even though it is the same speech that you have had in the
past. The difference is that your speech will now be voiced from a place of
purity and fulfillment. This makes the speech pure, fulfilled and trustworthy
altogether. The heart and the body will be filled with happiness. Even if our
surroundings are full of chaos, our minds will have found true happiness. It
may be difficult to change our surroundings, so we have to adapt to it instead.
We should elevate our minds above the surroundings to find true happiness. This
is similar to a cool spot in the middle of a hot oven.
">This is also a place where you feel as if you are sleeping
in the midst of light. This is unlike the unconscious sleep whereby you are in darkness. You will fall asleep as you
normally would, but after awhile, you will feel as if you are sleeping in the
light.
Once you wake up, you will wake up in light and be able to pull the
happiness from the inside out. The inner happiness will slowly expand to the
outside and bring happiness to a new day. From the time you take a shower, wash
your face, brush your teeth and have your meal, to the time you go to work and
school, the light of happiness will follow you wherever you go. Others will
look up to you.
The happiness from meditation will spread to your
surroundings and will rid your life of the bad, whether it is the weather,
people, animals or material things. You have heard the testaments of people who
speak of the inner happiness from having attained inner Dhamma. Hopefully, one
of these days, you will attain the inner Dhamma and become the person who gives
testaments to others in the world. On that day, you will be an important part
of the effort to bring happiness to the world and be the source of motivation
for others to live their lives in a positive way.
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