In the most basic meditations, we simply learn to turn the mind that usually goes outward to look inward instead. Through Shamatha or calm abiding meditation, we are able to get under the hood of our own minds, so to speak, to glimpse its inner workings. By taking up meditation, we don’t lose the ability to navigate and understand the outside world. Far from it, as we withdraw our projections from the outer sphere, it comes into clearer focus revealing what is actually there.
How the Mind Works & What We Can Do About It
Suggested Reading: Open Heart, Open Mind by Tsoknyi Rinpoche and his Fully Being Online Course; Shift into Freedom by Loch Kelly; Stepping out of Self-Deception by Rodney Smith; Buddha’s Brain by Rick Hanson. Full Catastrophe by Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn. Thoughts Without a Thinker by Mark Epstein; Mindsight by Daniel Siegel.
Listening on YouTube: Wisdom of the Masters narrated by Samaneri Jayasara.
Above is only the tip of the iceberg.
For many more Buddhist topics see https://sbdharmacircle.net
