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Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?
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#2Puja for Ganesh then reading Vedas
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#3Every morning I read a section of the Bible's Old Testament, Psalm, Proverb and New Testament.
I then use the Lord's Prayer as a framework to pray. Having done this for many years I have observed we begin 'Our Father' and focus on God. My own inclination would be to start with 'Forgive me' and focus on me.
I then spend my day trying to honour Jesus's teachings. The highs and lows of the previous day are discussed the next morning.
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#4I like Shikantaza, although I can't claim to actually do it daily. It translates to "just sitting" and is a form of meditation consisting of, well, just that. It is mostly based on a single text telling you how to sit and how to balance not-falling-asleep and not-actively-thinking. That's all. There is no extensive literature translated to death and no startup trying to sell you something, but yet you are right there with the core weirdness of meditation and paradoxes like thinking non-thinking. Love it.
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#5Spending time reminding myself that there is no soul, god, afterlife or anything likewise as a reminder that we’re just animals and our consciousness’ need to be anything more is ego getting in the way of being truly empathetic and reverent of the time we have here.
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#6Ultramarathon running
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#7I try to make time every day to "spend time with God".
This involves reading the Bible, praying, worshipping and meditating on the Bible.
Preferably first thing. However I don't function so well without coffee so often I get up and make a coffee first.
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#8I talk to God throughout the day and focus on listening. This includes some light Bible reading and expecting answers. Transparent, concise, empathic, respectful prayers seem to be answered with great enthusiasm. God is dad, but dad is also God. It is both odd and fantastic.
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#9Spending time reminding myself that there is no soul, god, afterlife or anything likewise as a reminder that we’re just animals and our consciousness’ need to be anything more is ego getting in the way of being truly empathetic and reverent of the time we have here.
This. And having done so for so many years, the process becomes automatic, and the time required to execute it mere nanoseconds.
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#10I practice Dzogchen every-day non-meditation as well as more formal "just sitting with eyes half open and staring like a zombie" meditation.