Preparing For Meditation

Be guided by Ondy in detailed step-by-step directions that set you up and prime you for a meaningful and stable meditation. Anytime “make your preparation” arises at the beginning of any practice, this will be the knowledge you need.

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In how to meditate,

Beginners instruction,

I take you through the meditation posture in detail and how to use abdominal breathing.

With this basic groundwork we are ready to make our preparation for every meditation.

Enter the meditation with the three helpful attitudes.

Don't have any expectations,

Don't think I'm meditating and don't aim for any result,

Just do the meditation with a completely open mind.

Relax the body by finding your comfortable posture,

Checking that your spine is straight and that your hands are comfortable in your lap and your eyes lowered.

Make three deep abdominal breaths,

Refreshing body and mind.

And then comfortably breathe naturally in and out through your nostrils,

Following the breath as you feel the sensation on your upper lip.

Call and dry as you breathe in and warm and moist as you breathe out.

And this is your point of concentration,

Just focusing on this sensation and breathing in and out.

This is mindfulness of the breath,

Concentration without distraction.

As thoughts arise,

Let them go and allow this process to stabilise your mind for a few minutes before you decide on which meditation you are going to do.

This is your preparation for every meditation.

Then when your mind is stable,

You can make your motivation a good intention for why exactly you are doing the meditation.