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Meditation: Developing Your Practice - Quiz
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What is Meditation?
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A technique that will make your mind more powerful than anyone else.
A way to help you fall asleep as quickly as possible.
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 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.
Do standing meditation as often as possible.
The body is the pot and the stand is to have strong legs.
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)
Five (5)
Six (6)
You do not need a meditation Teacher to learn meditation. You can learn it on your own.
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False
A Teacher who has attained Enlightenment will be most beneficial for you to learn these Teachings.
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False
You should perform meditation exactly the same way as your Teacher and all their students.
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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,
Standing, Walking, 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
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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What is the goal of Breathing Mindfulness Meditation?
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To relax the mind and help you to fall asleep.
To develop a steady breath and observe it as long as possible.
To analyze and judge all the thoughts that enter the mind.
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.
During Breathing Mindfulness Meditation, the breath is ____________.
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not important
the present moment
warming up the inside of the body
flowing in and out of the mouth
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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There is only one (1) "right way" to do Loving-kindness Meditation.
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Meditation to eliminate sexual cravings is not possible.
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Meditation to realize "non-self" should be done first and without the guidance of Teachers.
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Gotama Buddha meditated ___________________.
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only on Sundays
once a day
three (3) times per day, morning, midday, and evening
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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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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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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False
You need to meditate with music, apps, or videos so they can help you to train the mind.
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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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