Nibbana Gamini Patipada: After learning meditation from a teacher, how should we continue our daily practice?

How to continue daily meditation:

There are about 40 ways to keep the mind still in meditation. Depends on everyone different temperament and personality, the objects of meditation could be various.

These are some of the preparation and meditation practices in common meditation session:

1.

To set boundaries - you can do this in the subway, in the airport, airplane, in any crowded place, or in the meeting, in the office, gym room, where everyone is sort of intruding other's energy field.

Three boundaries:

1. Boundary of body - around one meter (plus minus) radius from the body

2. Boundary of emotion / feeling - around two meters (plus minus) radius from the body

3. Boundary of thought / thinking - around three meters (plus minus) radius from the body

To decide firmly that within these boundaries, no one who is disrespectful will be allowed to enter the boundaries. And if there already someone who is disrespectful that is inside these boundaries, he/she is invited respectfully away from the space of the boundaries. Thus we feel respected, privacy and spacious within our boundaries.

2.

To share love, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity to ourselves, and later to those around us (even to those we don't know and to animals)

Receiving unconditional love from the oxygen, sunshine, moonlight, trees, earth and all part of the nature, and let the love penetrated every cells in the body, and allow the hearts to be overflowed with love. The love overflows to the chair we sit on, to the people around us, and overflowed to our homeland, to those we love, to all that we know or don't know..

Similar practice can be done for compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.

Gratitude to body parts, from top to bottom, every part of the body.

4.

The color meditation.

Melt into any color delighted us, like a baby.

Let the color embrace us from all ten directions - north, south, east, west, north-east, northwest, south-east, southwest, up and down.

5.

The arising and perishing of sound, feeling, thinking, effort / trying, knowing (fears, judgment, comparisons) until all perish to silence, and enjoy the silence.

When should we meditate?

We can do this meditation not only while sitting, we can use the gap between waiting for a phone call, waiting for a traffic light, waiting in a line for bill payment, post office, market cashier, in the toilet, in the shower, before sleep, after wake up. During the stressful moment in the daily life, these few meditation are extremely efficient in keeping a boundary between the stressful object, and the feeling and body. We changed the object of stress and replace it with the object of meditation.