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We start with shamatha meditation, which is the development of a calm, abiding mind - this is the mind of relaxing and letting go, which Aloka-D is talking about and is the method using mindfulness to still the activity of the mind, which Woodscooter is talking about. This kind of mind gets right at the the craving. But we Buddhists usually then try to go further by using vipassana meditation to use special insight into the nature of reality and use the kind of mind, which tries to realize wisdom, thereby ridding ourselves of ignorance itself and completely cut off the real source of karma and suffering.

Of course there are other types of meditation used by Buddhists such as metta meditation to develop loving kindness and tonglen, which really crushes the ego by using another approach to realizing reality. Personally I find walking meditation good for both calming the mind and meditating on impermanence and seeing directly that we are nothing more than a process.







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