by Ethan NichternOn November 6 & 7, the Buddhist-inspired Interdependence Project (which creates this blog for your education and/or amusement) will be hosting our largest fundraiser and event to date in the form of a 24- hour Meditation Marathon in the window displays of ABC Carpet & Home, a wonderful and sustainable store in New York City. We are aiming to raise funds for our non-profit organization to develop as a true community center, develop a radio show, and develop our activism projects (environmental and prison work) in the coming year. We also need additional support to continue providing great classes, events and projects for the upcoming year, and expand the scope of our transformative community.
About 90 people have signed up to participate. Three of us, myself included, are meditating for 24 hours straight! So why do we practice meditation? That's a great question to ask yourself before you do it around the clock on one of the busiest streets in the world. Every week for the next six weeks leading up to the event, we will share with you five answers to that questions from marathon participants. If you like an answer, please consider making a donation in support of the meditator who wrote it (many thanks to the 300 or so sponsors so far!) Any amount is appreciated, and it helps our little nonprofit with a big heart tremendously. The donation is deductible to the full extent of the law.
Here are this week's top five reasons we sit:
1. "I meditate because it
cures hangovers."
-participant Kat Hendrix
2. "I sit to be in the present, not the past nor the future, because 'right now' is exactly where I need to be."
-participant Jeff Hinton
3. "I sit to transform problems into opportunities."
-participant Ralph De La Rosa
4. "i sit so i don't miss the next 30 years of my life"
-participant Heather Coleman
5. "I sit because it settles and dissolves the clamor of my mind into peace."
-participant Eavan Cleary
-participant Kat Hendrix
2. "I sit to be in the present, not the past nor the future, because 'right now' is exactly where I need to be."
-participant Jeff Hinton
3. "I sit to transform problems into opportunities."
-participant Ralph De La Rosa
4. "i sit so i don't miss the next 30 years of my life"
-participant Heather Coleman
5. "I sit because it settles and dissolves the clamor of my mind into peace."
-participant Eavan Cleary
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Meditation cures hangovers? If you're practicing the middle way you won't drink to excess. No intoxication, no hangover.
Twas a joke...
I am going to start meditating every morning starting tomorrow. Thanks for the info. Although I do not drink, I believe that meditation COULD cure a hangover. Peace
I meditate to return to the middle way, so that I'm ready to live there.
there is a Buddhist monastery that has the single greatest recovery rate from alcohol (or drug?) addiction, of any program, anywhere in the world.
I think it is in Thailand?
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