Co-meditation According to Lama Surya Das

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Co-meditation
According to Lama Surya Das

• According to Lama Surya Das co-meditation means,
  essentially, meditating with. This includes yet
  goes beyond human relationships. This kind of
  connection and meditation allows us to enter into
  the tantric world of non-separation and oneness,
  completeness, totality, what Buddhists generally
  call no duality (not two). It allows us to
  meditate with everything, exploit and integrate
  every single thingouter, inner, and subtlest
  into the contemplative process.

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This the warp and woof of everyday reality with
all its polarities and dichotomies, choices,
attractions and antipathies becomes the very weft
of the spiritual weave which, like the good earth
(dhrm, in Sanskrit) upholds us. This dhrm is the
root of the word dharma or truth, the fundament,
the way and wisdom itself. Co-meditation is
generally known as Cross Breathing. The easy
principle on which it is based is that, depending
on the type of respiration used, the mental
condition will be inspired in that particular
way. Co-meditation is believed to reduce stress
and suffering.  Co-meditation helps normalize the
heart rate, blood pressure and anxiety. Co-medita
tion has been practiced for centuries by lamas,
physicians and common people to clear and quiet
the minds and emotions of dying lamas.
Co-meditation puts the mind in a deep state of
relaxation. Even Tibetan Buddhist lamas practice
it to calm their minds and emotions.
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It eases the lamas ability to enter into
meditative conditions and helps them bring
control over panic and illness. The way of
co-meditation, though focused on the sickly
person, is intended also to be helpful in
comforting the helper through such emotionally
unsettling times. Having something useful and
real to do often helps helpers overcome the
common and often insufferable sense of
helplessness experienced as they accompany loved
ones to the ends of their lives on earth. The
first benefit is one that Co-Meditation shares
with other forms of meditation  the sharpening
of ones ability to core awareness. Diligent and
consistent practice in focusing mind, as we work
out a muscle, leads to greater strength in the
faculty being exercised. The worth of increasing
this ability can hardly be overestimated.
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A second benefit of Co-Meditation The increase
of inner peace and clarity of mind and heart.
Individually conducted solo meditation techniques
often explicitly guide the practitioner in such a
direction. The achievement of inner peace and
clarity through solo meditation is indisputably a
marvelously beneficial accomplishment. A third
benefit to be gained from Co-Meditation increases
from the cure that experience of Co-Meditation
presents to those aspects of awareness that are
ready to self-centeredness. Rather than directing
attention toward selfish desires and anxieties,
Co-Meditation gives experience of others when the
mind is at calm, when ones scheming agendas are
silent. For More information about Lama Surya
Das feel free to visit  https//en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Surya_Das