Day 16

Ce matin, j'ai pris le mantra de Sakyamouni Bouddha comme objet de méditation.

Je serais chez ma tante dans le Jura ce weekend, mais de retour pour répondre à cette question dans les commentaires lundi. Je vous invite à répondre à votre façon, en sachant qu'il n'y a pas une seule réponse "juste": Quel genre d'objet peut-on prendre comme support pour notre méditation assise?

The 30th of the lunar month, no moon day (today), is called Sakyamuni Buddha day on the Tibetan calendar. Today there also happened to be a partial solar eclipse at its peak around 6:20GMT, and while it was visible only from Antarctica, Tasmania and New Zealand, it is considered to be a highly auspicious event. Today is thus a good time to do all sorts of practices, to increase one's wisdom and compassion while at the same time increasing one's merit.

As I have been having a hard time concentrating lately, this morning I decided to use Sakyamuni's mantra as support for my practice, as an object of meditation. There are what seems an infinite number of things that we can use to support our meditation. I saw a video two days ago in which Yongey Mingyur Rinpoché speaks of his experience using panic attacks for meditation.

In our everyday lives we can use whatever we are doing/seeing/hearing/feeling as a support for increasing our focus, or our compassion, or any of a hundred goals. When we sit on the cushion, it is up to us to choose an object of concentration, since life is not coming at us from all angles and hitting us on the senses willy-nilly.

I will be away in the Jura for the weekend visiting my aunt, but will be back to answer this question in the comments section on Monday. I invite you to give your own answers, knowing that there is no one "right" answer: What kind of objects can we use for support during formal meditation?