Using The Mother As A Model In Meditation

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Recommended: Compassion within buddhism

I feel that using the mother as a model in meditation fascinating because one can

Personalize their own experience by visualizing his/her own mother and in effect,

associate inner emotion & raw compassion for the one who created and protected them.

I also thought that the realization of immense inapplicable rebirths, that everyone has

been everyone’s mother in a sense, is a powerful tool towards introducing compassion for

all beings. Just understanding the respectful nature of this compassion in general is a

basic fundamental towards what the second Dally Lama, Gendun Gyatso calls ‘giving

and taking’.

It (‘giving and taking’) has many phases, and taking responsibility, and

feeling empathy, towards all things is essential throughout. First one pictures his/her own

mother personalized in his/her own frame of reference and associates the compassion of

his/her mother towards other people close, like friends, family and pets by ‘giving and

taking’. The second level of this concentration of the mind is feeling compassion for

his/her enemy and even strangers he or she has never ever met. The next stage of

this meditation is of course having compassion for all beings through compassion for the

sake of helping other people to fulfill enlightenment.

I should mention that anyone who wishes to practice the meditation of ‘giving

and taking’ must have the self control and discipline attained by more basic meditations,

for example 'mindfulness of breath'. With out such discipline, his/her mind may easily be

swayed by any various stimulation that ‘giving and taking’ may evoke.

I thought it was interesting the book said that realizing the love of my

Mother is indirectly responsible for who I am today, and here I sit writing and studying

the holy practice of Dharma. And here I am appreciating my good fortune. And of course

stay away from the negative and strive towards the positive for all, eliminate the harmful

and to produce and encourage happiness towards all.

I also want to add some positive criticism towards the excerpt ‘How to Meditate

upon the Ultimate Bodhi-Mind’, on page 163 of ‘Entering the Stream’.

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