by Ethan NichternThis is the last installment of "Why We Meditate" before the 24 Hour Meditation Marathon.
On Friday and Saturday, the Buddhist-inspired Interdependence Project (which creates this blog for your education and/or amusement) will be hosting our largest 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 raising 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 600 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. ""Sittin' in the mornin' sun, I'll be sittin' when the evenin' come,
Watching the thoughts roll in, And I watch 'em roll away again, yeah
(apologies to Otis Redding)"
-participant Raquel Cion"
2. "I sit to turn up my Heartlight. (Like E.T.)"
-participant Shelley Dague
3. "I sit because I'm going to die. Before I do I want to live consciously and fully."
-participant Hal Lanse
4. "I meditate becasue the alternative is not pretty."
-participant Ellen Scordato
5. "I sit because sanity can't be bought or sold."
-participant Ethan Nichtern
-participant Raquel Cion"
2. "I sit to turn up my Heartlight. (Like E.T.)"
-participant Shelley Dague
3. "I sit because I'm going to die. Before I do I want to live consciously and fully."
-participant Hal Lanse
4. "I meditate becasue the alternative is not pretty."
-participant Ellen Scordato
5. "I sit because sanity can't be bought or sold."
-participant Ethan Nichtern
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Ken Elkind
nice blog!
It is nice to hear why others meditate, helps to reinforce my own strength on the path.
I meditate because:
- I believe in Infinity and I am seeking it
- I need a daily practice of centering
- I believe in something bigger than myself
- it keeps my mind sober and clear
- it helps me remember who I am
- it helps me defeat the lies, spin and negativity of a bound and corrupt world that wants to accept limitation and defeat and not strive for the Infinite
- because I want to become beyond anger, hatred, jealousy and fear
gassho
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