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Meditation

Questions and Answers: Keeping your joy

1. What qualities are most important for the absorption of light?

2. At the end of meditation I feel very good. Is there anything I should do with that feeling, or any way to utilise it?

3. After we stop meditating, how can we maintain the level of consciousness that we reached during our meditation?

4. Sometimes after meditation I lose the joy that I have received from my meditation, and I feel very bad. Why do I lose my joy?

5. Sometimes I feel very sad when I come down from meditation.

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Q&A: Keeping your joy
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Meditation

Chapter 2: How to Begin
Meditation HomeStudy
Meditation Exercises
Step 1: Getting Started
Step 2: Focusing the Mind
Step 3: Meditating in the Spiritual Heart
Step 4: Living a Meditative Life
A Favourite Quality
An Exercise in Contemplation
Breathing Exercises
Exercises in Concentration
Exercises in Meditation
Exercises in Receptivity
Invite Your Friends
Purifying the Mind
Simplicity, Sincerity, Purity

Stories

First-hand experiences of meditation and spirituality.

The most beautiful and fulfilling of all possible experiences

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I felt a bell ringing in my heart

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Spiritual Friends

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So much longing, for something

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I was just so transported by the atmosphere

Pulak Viscardi New York, United States

Your life's responsibilities compel you to develop inner strength

Pradhan Balter Chicago, United States

Running for Peace

Jogyata Dallas Auckland, New Zealand

'You two have been friends for many hundreds of years'

Jogyata Dallas Auckland, New Zealand

An intense, concentrated Fire

Toshala Elliott Auckland, New Zealand

My first Guru

Adarini Inkei Geneva, Switzerland

My love of spiritual poetry

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Check your Front Tire

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The Peace Run visits Oxford

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