Worrying as Meditation
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Ann Davies, in one of her recorded public lectures that BOTA has released to the public, points out that worrying is not only like meditation, it is meditation. When we can keep our minds fixated on any seed-thought the same way we can keep it fixated on seed-thoughts that worry us, we will know that we've achieved some modicum of success at meditation.
I think she's right, as does a New Yorker cartoonist, apparently...
http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/6365/worryingmeditationzp7.jpg
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Great cartoon Z!
Now another question. What we focus on can manifest in the mundane world, so if we worry, are we manifesting the actual thing we are worrying about?
And to quote Mark Twain:
“I have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”
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@DavidH said
"Great cartoon Z!
Now another question. What we focus on can manifest in the mundane world, so if we worry, are we manifesting the actual thing we are worrying about?"
Yes.
"And to quote Mark Twain:
“I have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”"
Lol, excellent quote.
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Meditation Humor of the Dei:
http://www.eso-garden.com/images/uploads_bilder/humor_balloon.jpg
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I've come to believe that worry is a prayer for something you don't want to happen. But since the universe only gives people what they ask for, it doesn't care if we are asking for good, bad, happy, sad, etc. If we are worrying about something we are concentrating on it and that sounds like 'asking' to me. Like one of the posters before me said, if we concentrate on something we are putting out that energy & it puts a form to it. xoxo