Dali Lama's daily meditation....:)

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The Dalai Lama has been acknowledged by Tibetan Buddhists to be a

reincarnation of the God of Compassion and by the world in general to

be a Nobel Peace Prize winner but few know him to be a practicing

meditator. All his life, he has been surrounded by masters of

meditation and has been initiated into many different techniques. It

is therefore appropriate that we pay attention when he points out one

method so valuable that he does it everyday:

Remember when you were a kid and they often had cartoons where

someone had a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other and

they were whispering into an ear -- one encouraging doing "bad" and

one doing "good". In a way, that's the basis of the Dalai Lama

Meditation technique.

 

Sit quietly, calmly with eyes closed, as relaxed yet aware as you can

be. Visualize yourself on the left side of you minds eye as you would

appear to yourself and others in a moment of impatience. Really see

this inner vision. Watch your face, observe your body language. What

does your impatient self look like? On the right side of your minds

eye, see yourself when you are very patient. What do you look like

when you have a lifetime of time. As tense as you appeared on the

left as your impatient self, see yourself as relaxed in your patience

on the right. Now on the left side, see yourself as you appear when

you're depressed. Look carefully. How does that make you feel? Can

you be aware of the aura of doom and gloom you're radiating? And

then, on the right side of your minds eye, see yourself as you are

when you're joyous. Merge with that happiness. Know how others would

see you.

 

Continue seeing all the seemingly negative feelings and behaviors on

the inner left-hand side of your minds eye and the opposite on the

right. On the left, see yourself as jealous and on the right as how

you appear when you are truly glad for someone else's sucess or

happiness. On the right, see the bigoted you and on the right, the

all-embracing. On the left the mean, on the right the sweet. See the

stupid you and the brilliant. See the clumsy and the graceful. On the

left, see the unsatisfied and on the right, the contented.

 

Go on and on, becoming familiar with the "you" on the left and the

opposite "you" on the right. Then see the total "you" who would be

there on the left if none of the characteristics of the right side

were present. Now see the "you" who would be the totality of yourself

with the right side only if none of the behaviors and feelings of the

left side "you" had ever appeared.

 

The Dalai Lama tells us that there is nothing else necessary because

just by seeing your negative left-side self, you will become so

disgusted with yourself when you witness yourself acting in any of

the left side ways that you will automatically cease any of those

actions and start doing and feeling the right-side actions.

Eventually, you will become the right-side you exclusively.

Eventually, you will have peace, compassion, wisdom, good health,

patience, and all the other glorious aspects of life.

 

This technique has the potential to change your life profoundly for

the better. It is one of the best antidotes for negativity. It is

consistent with his unlimited compassion that the Dalai Lama has

shared it with us.