Hack #60: Meditate

Learn the basics of insight meditation, a much subtler and surer (but slower) technique for gaining clarity than the Fourfold Breath.

Additions and Suggestions

Concrete ideas to modify and expand this hack go here. -- Something that scares people off from meditation is the belief that you have to "Completely Empty Your Mind" when meditating. This is a very difficult thing to avoid when we're used to thinking of eight things at once.

Discussion

Freeform discussion of this hack goes here.

Links

• "Nibbana for Everyone" by Buddhadasa Bhikku: http://www.suanmokkh.org/archive/nibbevry.htm
• Universal loving-kindness meditation: http://www.saigon.com/~anson/ebud/mfneng/mind9.htm
• Murphy, Michael and Steven Donovan. 2004. The Physical and Psychological Effects of Meditation
• Happy to Burn: Meditation to Energize Your Spirit by Roger Wells: http://www.users.tpg.com.au/sankhara
• Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana: http://www.saigon.com/~anson/ebud/mfneng/minddist.htm

Errata

The title of this hack in the book is simply "Meditate". We changed it for the wiki to make it a WikiName?.

Hack Author

Ron Hale-Evans

See also

• MediTation

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This is a page for a hack from the book MindPerformanceHacks by Ron Hale-Evans.