Meditation: Developing Your Practice

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Meditation: Developing Your Practice - Quiz

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What is Meditation? *

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A way to help you fall asleep as quickly as possible.

A technique that will make your mind more powerful than anyone else.

A technique to actively train the mind during dedicated independent purposeful training sessions to eliminate and/or cultivate various qualities of the mind in the positions of seated, lying, standing, or walking.

A good way to show others that you are a better person than them.

What is meant by “a pot without a stand is easy to tip over” shared by Gotama Buddha? *

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The body is the pot and the stand is to have strong legs.

Do standing meditation as often as possible.

The mind is the “pot” and your meditation practice is the “stand”. The mind needs a steady and consistent “stand” that you establish through the continual development of your meditation practice to train the mind.

We should be sure we only use a small amount of water in our plants.

Gotama Buddha taught us ____________ positions to meditate. *

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Three (3)

Four (4)

Six (6)

Five (5)

You do not need a meditation Teacher to learn meditation. You can learn it on your own. *

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True

False

A Teacher who has attained Enlightenment will be most beneficial for you to learn these Teachings. *

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True

False

You should perform meditation exactly the same way as your Teacher and all their students. *

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True

False

What are the positions for meditation? *

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Seated, Lying on the back, Lying on the right side, Lying on the left side,

Lying on the right side, Lying on the left side, Lying on the stomach, and Seated

Standing, Walking, Lying on the right side, Lying on the left side,

Seated, Lying, Standing, and Walking

Breathing Mindfulness Meditation helps you to eliminate craving by training the mind to “cut off thoughts” during meditation, thus, removing the poison of “Craving” or “Greed” while developing the skill of mindfulness. *

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True

False

What is the goal of Breathing Mindfulness Meditation? *

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To develop a steady breath and observe it as long as possible.

The goal of Breathing Mindfulness Meditation is to develop “Right Concentration”, “Right Mindfulness”, and to eliminate the unwholesome root of craving by training the mind not to cling or attach to emotions, situations, fears, relationships, the past nor the future expectations you have of yourself.

To relax the mind and help you to fall asleep.

To analyze and judge all the thoughts that enter the mind.

During Breathing Mindfulness Meditation, the breath is ____________. *

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the present moment

warming up the inside of the body

flowing in and out of the mouth

not important

Loving-kindness Meditation helps us to eliminate anger, hatred, ill will, hostility, aggression, resentment and cultivate a mind that has loving-kindness or goodwill towards all beings, thus, removing the poison of “anger”, “hatred” or “ill will”. *

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True

False

There is only one (1) "right way" to do Loving-kindness Meditation. *

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True

False

Meditation to eliminate sexual cravings is not possible. *

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True

False

Meditation to realize "non-self" should be done first and without the guidance of Teachers. *

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True

False

Gotama Buddha meditated ___________________. *

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only on Sundays

three (3) times per day, morning, midday, and evening

once a day

whenever he had time and if he wasn't too busy

You will notice the most benefits when you develop your practice to 2-3 sessions per day with thirty (30) minutes or more per session. You will need to build up to this gradually to develop your meditation practice. *

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True

False

You need to time all your meditation sessions and when you get to 1-hour a day, you should tell everyone how good you are doing so they can be proud of you. *

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True

False

If the mind experiences sleepiness or a tendency to fall asleep, the mind may need rest and, therefore, you should rest the mind to ensure there is sufficient sleep. *

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True

False

You need to meditate with music, apps, or videos so they can help you to train the mind. *

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True

False

You should only need three (3) things to perform meditation: ___________________. *

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a pillow, blanket, and music

silence, darkness, and a good temperature

the body, the mind, and the breath

a Teacher, pillow, and blanket

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