Bangkok QA May 2008

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Teacher
Day
Index
Question
Steve
21
1
With the practice of the Noble Eightfold Path, the practice of developing Awareness, the practice of developing Compassionate Understanding, and in general the practice of purifying the mind: can you achieve any of this without meditation?
Ref: 2008.05.x.21.01
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Steve
21
2
This is not so much a question as a comment. You were talking about energy, this is one of the things I've found about energy; I've found that it's so easy for energy to be sapped away. We tend to feel that energy is something that you get by having more desire, or by being more active. Yet, it seems very much the other way around; actually, you get more energy the more you stand still. Do you have a comment on energy?
Ref: 2008.05.x.21.02
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Rosemary
21
3
While meditating, and doing the guided meditation that we just did, I have been finding it difficult to associate, and to really feel compassion towards people whom I have never met. I know they exist, and I know sometimes the circumstances they are in are terrible. I was in Myanmar, I saw the devastation in Rangoon before I left. It was terrible. I have contact with a few people there. Those are the ones whom I have compassion with even though they didn't get battered and hurt. When I try to meditate on ten thousand people, a hundred thousand people... I don't know... I get lost. I can only feel like this, and I feel a sense of helplessness, too, I think, with disasters like that.
Ref: 2008.05.x.21.03
Written answer
- Compassion
- Disasters
Steve
21
4
Letting go of anger, fear, and worries. How do you do that? When I look at myself, I see in anger a huge energy, an energy that sometimes helps to give me direction and make things right in my life, not only for me but also in the greater context. So, like anger, fear and worries - worries are very sensible, but anger and fear - I'm not sure if these are emotions that can be helpful sometimes.
Ref: 2008.05.x.21.04
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Steve
21
5
How do you explain why it's easier to meditate when in group than when alone?
Ref: 2008.05.x.21.05
Written answer
- Conditions
- Good friends