Contemplation of the body - By Thanissaro Bhikkhu ( March 1, 2004 ) People have a lot of resistance to contemplating the body as a topic of meditation. Some of them complain they already have a negative body image so why focus on the negative side of the body? Others say that body contemplation is a way of fostering aversion to the body, which is an unhealthy mental state. Others say they’re not all that attached to their bodies, so why should they have to focus on the body? Or they’ll refer to that story where the Buddha recommended contemplation of the body to some monks and then went off into the forest for a couple of months. The monks got so disgusted with their bodies that they started committing suicide, while others hired assassins to kill themselves off. When the Buddha came out of the forest, he found the community of monks was a lot smaller than had it been before, so he called the remaining monks together and told them to practice breath meditation instead. Some people
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Religions in modern life The world as we know it has many religions in different parts of the world. Some say Hinduism (founded around 15-5th century BCE) is the oldest religion. Time to time there has been many religions in this world, which is founded by the humans itself. Religion is a concept, which tries to explain the unknowns. None can prove it, but it goes with belief and faith. People who believes it embrace it and the ones who don't reject and criticise. All the religions try to explain the mechanism in life, in certain aspect. The core of any true religion should be timeless which can be applied at any given time. If you are open minded to explore and see things clearly, then you start to challenge some facts in the religion you believe. If that religion can explain your questions your belief gets stronger. Many religion after certain point, it goes with the faith and experiences. Unless you have experience or faith your belief would dissolve. In deep down ever