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Action Meditation
Faster than Yoga, stronger than Tai Chi, Stick Action Meditation is flexibility fitness and mindfulness meditation in only 15 minutes! There is basically one form of meditation taught in the world today, the oriental form. These practices vary widely and go by many names, but the goal is always the same: stop the endless cycles of reincarnation . . . . Now there is something new. A new kind of meditation with a practical goal entirely unlike anything you will find in the mystical meditations of the East. Marcus Aurelius, our model for classical meditation, was one of the truly great emperors of Rome. . . . “As he wrote his Meditations, Marcus was thus practicing the Stoic spiritual exercises. He was using writing as a technique or procedure in order to influence himself, and to transform his inner discourse by meditating on the Stoic dogmas and rules of life. ” It's important to know that you can still meditate as the ancients did. Whatever your system of belief your own observations about life will be of value and importance to you. You don't need to be a Stoic to keep a journal anymore than you have to be a Hindu to do Yoga . . . . It is this method that makes it possible to study Heraclitus fragments as one would study Zen koans, and with the same or similar result. The method of study comes from Chinese Zen and has been in use for about 1000 years. The Heraclitus fragments have been around for about 2500 years, but so far as I know the two have never been introduced to each other until this work you are now reading.
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