Posted on 01/20/2013 5:36:15 AM PST by Candor7
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) -- The U.S. Marine Corps, known for turning out some of the military's toughest warriors, is studying how to make its troops even tougher through meditative practices, yoga-type stretching and exercises based on mindfulness.
Marine Corps officials say they will build a curriculum that would integrate mindfulness-based techniques into their training if they see positive results from a pilot project. Mindfulness is a Buddhist-inspired concept that emphasizes active attention on the moment to keep the mind in the present.
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Agree with a lot of what you’re saying. If they took 1000 men and told them the last 100 left standing would enter the service, after the free-for-all most people would surprised at the winners.
Years ago friends and I used to make bets on amateur boxing on cable, unknowns with short records. They would make a big thing about their weight, their reach, their race, their age...I just looked at their eyes and face and body language. I did real well. The body is the tool, but the mind is the craftsman. The guy who’s going to win already has it won in his head. And the other guy who steps in the ring usually knows it.
I tried meditate like Jan-Michael Vincent in boot camp but it didn't work too well.
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This will fail miserably, because it, in several variations, has been tried before.>>>>>
Have you tried it before.? And what is it that you tried?
You do not sound like you tried it. Maybe you did not see it? LOL.
Fail miseraby? Then why has it been successful for over 2000 years in every culture in the world?
You think you know all about it?
This is but a small part of it:
Its OK though if you do not get it. That just makes it easier.
the Marine so desires can meditate on Biblical truths as warrior King David >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Absolutely, and you can throw Saint Michael into the mix if you like.
No kidding. Wariorship in the USA needs to become more sophisticated in how one’s internal landscape is cultivated.
The naysayers and troglodytes posting here would be so dead
given what they have revealed here.......complete fear rather than fearlessness. But to each his own and to the freedom that represents.
It’s just not going to happen, because these exercises are skills of the mind and the body that a limited number of persons are able to do.>>>>>>>>>>>>
If you are a human being, then you CAN do it.It’s true.
I tried to point out on that thread that shamatha (calm abiding) meditation isn't really Buddhist. It pre-existed Buddhism by who knows how many thousand years. As always there were posters who couldn't accept that. All I can say is 'it works!' There is no better way to improve your situational awareness ability.
Well it was fun putting the article up. So much fear and agression and yes, the technique of shamatha ( Tibetan: shine, pronounced “shinay”)predates Buddhism by a very long stretch of time indeed.
The resultant situational awareness ( vipasyana)is as you say, a very positive thing. I do not know why anyone would fear it.
Shibata Sensei, the greatest kyu no michi master alive today calls it, “polishing the mirror of one’s mind.”This from an ex-soldier of Japan who survived as a POW under the Russians in an Afghanistan coal mine where the survival rate was 1 in 68? He knows what he is talking about.
I can’t believe that one poster even said that such meditation was only for special human beings who had a natural predisposition for it.
Warriors for thousands of years have benefited from the practice of mindfulness, and only now after 200 years of institutional existence do U.S. warriors begin to encounter it institutionally? Well there is hope and possibly liberation and freedom also, the creation of enlightened society now being destroyed by the left and the Obama regime.
Thank you Tiger, maybe we took a few small steps today.
ABC - Anything But Christianity.
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If you look back in history, you can find some famous Christian mystics, such as St. Teresa of Avila, who practiced meditation (on Christian and spiritual subjects). Meditation (used in the practice of mindfulness) is merely a tool. Complaining about the use of meditation in a training program because it’s not explicitly Christian is like complaining that they’re not using explicitly Christian #2 pencils. You could print an attractive Cross or a Christian thought on a pencil, which would be rather nice, but it doesn’t make it a better pencil.
Some people aren't able to sit still for 15 or 20 minutes a day but I would put them in the minority. An extremely small minority. That's the only special ability required that I know of. lol
It is promoting bhuddism. get it ?
Every other religion other than Christianity - according to THE BIBLE - is a false religion and God hates false religions, in fact the FIRST TWO Commandments deal with false worship.
Idolatry and false gods are not the way to go.
I used to think many many many things were harmless when I was ignorant of the Word of God because I had chosen to reject it by delaying studying it.
But the Word of God is a most serious thing.
Quiet reflection is one thing, but doing things according to the instruction of a teacher of a false religion is quite another.
I went to an ashram once and was in a yoga class. I was extremely uncomfortable with it - and then the chant changed to something about some god or something, and I could not say those words. And that was before my conversion, having practically no Biblical instruction in the heathen Methodist Church. From what little I knew I knew that was horribly wrong.
St. Teresa of Avila often used meditation in her spiritual practice. St. Ignatius of Loyola was well-known for his meditative spiritual practice.
Were they promoting Buddhism?
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Responsible and mature adults learn from the past and plan for the future. Irresponsible stupid selfish infants “live in the now.”
I have no idea about them, other than they presumably were members of the Roman Catholic Church. In that case, I highly doubt they were promoting Buddhism. I’m not a member of the Roman Catholic Church and I have not studied them.
Tell that to the person who steps out in front of a bus because their mind was fixated on thoughts of the past or imagining the future instead of being aware of what’s happening in the present moment.
Never worrying about the past or the future is a good way to end up homeless, addicted to drugs, or thrown in prison.
Whatever you’re babbling about has nothing to do with mindfulness meditation. A proper synonym for mindfulness would be ‘situational awareness.’ It has nothing to do with forgetting lessons learned or not planning for the future. That’s nonsense.
Responsible and mature adults learn from the past and plan for the future. Irresponsible stupid selfish infants “live in the now.”>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Shamatha mindfulness meditation does not prevent a practitioner from being mature, nor does it prevent planning for the future. It simply provides another dimension to one’s perceptive ability.It takes practice, generosity and self discipline to bring it about. Its been practiced by warriors and protectors all over the world for thousands of years, and will be practiced for thousands more.
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