| Researchers ar beginning to unfold the secrets to | | | | romantic notion of quitting everything and joining |
| speculation --an ancient practice that yields | | | | Tibetan monks on a mountaintop is not the only path |
| modern-day benefits. In the highlands of the | | | | to meditate. You don't need to quit your job, give up |
| Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, citizenry looking at liveliness | | | | your possessions and spend 30 days chanting. Recent |
| differently. Upon entering the local Buddhist | | | | research indicates that meditating brings about |
| monastery, there is a spectacular sculpture the size | | | | dramatic effects in as little as a 10-minute session. |
| of a large oak. The intricate carving of clouds and | | | | Several studies have demonstrated that subjects |
| patterns painted in powerful colors. But as soon as | | | | who meditated for a short time showed increased |
| winter gives means, this magnificent employment | | | | alpha waves (the relaxed brain waves) and |
| volition melt to nonentity. | | | | decreased anxiety and depression. |
| The sculpture, in fact, is made of butter, and it is 1 | | | | Epstein and several other experts feel that 's |
| of the highland multitude's symbols of the transient | | | | effectiveness has to do with putting aside |
| nature of spirit. And sprightliness here is not easy. | | | | attachment to I's self. As he says, " you looking at |
| Villagers bicycle to oeuvre before dawn and return | | | | directly at a star at night, it's difficult to see. But you |
| home hanker after sunset. Many live with nil More | | | | expression away slightly, it comes into focus. I find it |
| than dirt floors and rickety outhouses. | | | | to be the same manner with the egotism and |
| Upon entering these modest mud-brick homes, you'll | | | | meditating.ace zeroes in on a sense of self through a |
| find no tables or chairs--just a yearn platform bed, | | | | practice of , the self-important self-importance |
| which sleeps a family of eight. However, once the | | | | paradoxically becomes elusive. You become Thomas |
| masses invite you in for tea, their smiles wide and | | | | More aware that you interconnected with other |
| welcoming. How do they possess such inner calm in | | | | beings, and you tin can better put your possess |
| conditions we would call less than ideal. Once villagers | | | | worries into their proper perspective." A group of |
| cook, sew or plow the fields they do so in a tranquil | | | | elderly Chinese maintain their connection by meeting |
| state. As an approach to living, weaving seamlessly | | | | every daybreak in the village common in Monterey |
| into almost every action throughout the day seems | | | | Park, California. They swoop their arms and stretch |
| unfamiliar to Western cultures. | | | | their torsos in graceful harmony, and then stand |
| Is there something we tin glean from this agency of | | | | absolutely still, simply meditating. Only puffs of warm |
| biography that testament improve our have. The | | | | air flow from their nostrils. |