Category: Meditation
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I believe in you
I’m sitting here drinking tea. It’s Bengal Spice. This is a tea that I drank at meditation retreats, and it reminds me of being there. I haven’t done a retreat for almost two years. Of course, this whole past year has been almost like a retreat. A long, stressful retreat. I almost did a solo…
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KorMeditation: Frequently Asked Questions
I’m not disciplined. Can I still meditate? Yes, you can. Meditation teaches you discipline. It doesn’t require discipline. I used to think I couldn’t meditate because I wasn’t disciplined. I kept trying to meditate, but it never stuck. One day, I noticed that I had a ton of thoughts and sensations all wrapped up in the story I was…
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A concrete proof of meditation’s usefulness
Let me try to lay this out in a logical, step-by-step progression: Meditation helps you understand yourself. Understanding yourself helps you understand other people. Understanding other people helps you have empathy for people who do bad things to you. Having empathy for people who do bad things to you helps you become aware of why…
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Meditation should have a goal
Here’s something I just posted in the Radical Acceptance Through Meditation Facebook group: ✨✨✨ If it doesn’t have a goal, how do you know you’re doing it right? Look, it’s all well and good to “just sit” if that’s working for you. But, you know as well as I do it doesn’t work all the…
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How to Get Started With Meditation
Maybe you think meditation sounds kinda cool and you kinda think you might wanna do it once in a while. That’s not good enough. Meditation isn’t “cool”. It’s not like picking out window curtains that match your underwear. It’s a sophisticated mental technology designed to fix inherent deficiencies in the human mind. It unties knots…
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Karmic trash collector needed
I’m a karmic trash collector. It’s one of my official job titles here at Michael Korman, Inc. Perhaps you’d like to apply for this position. We have an opening. (No, I can’t pay you anything. I can’t even give you a desk or a business card. All you’ll get is the satisfaction of knowing you’re…