Meditative Concentration Releases Tensions: The Joy of Meditation as Daily Food (2014)

Meditative concentration gives rise to inner joy and inner happiness.

When you have meditative concentration,

when you do everything in the spirit of meditation,

you have a lot of peace and security, joy, and happiness inside of you.

Because...

meditative concentration, or meditation - also called Zen,

contains in it mindfullness (smrti), concentration (samadhi),
and insight (prajna).

I you have these three energies,

you generate a lot of peace, security, joy, and happiness inside.

With mindfulness, concentration, and insight/understanding,
you have

peace and security in your body.

You're able to release stress

in your body

and tensions in your body.

You can...

minimize aches and pains in your body.

It's meditative concentration/meditation

that helps you do that.

If you know how to breathe in fill awareness,
walk in full awareness,

sit in full awareness, and work in full awareness,

you can release much ache and pain in the body.

At the same time, you can also release a lot
of emotional stress and mental tension.

You're able to have inner joy and happiness
because of meditative concentration.

That's why,
letting go

gives rise to inner peace and security,
inner joy and inner happiness.

And meditative concentration also...

gives rise to inner peace and security, joy and happiness.

This

is an art.

The art of meditation.

In the...

Zen Buddhist tradition,
people often speak

of "the joy of meditation as daily food".

The joy of meditation as daily food.

This character with Vietnamese pronunciation
"duyet" has the same meaning as "hy" - i.e. joy.

The whole sentence goes "Thiền duyệt vi thực"

meaning, "The joy of meditation as your daily food".

The joy

of meditation becomes the food you
feed yourself on a daily basis.

You nourish yourself with inner joy and inner happiness.

That's what a mindfulness practitioner is supposed to do.

You don't nourish yourself with fame, social status,

power, or sensual desires.

But you noursih yourself with...

the joy, happiness, peace and security inside.

If you have a healthy Dharma body,
if you have a solid practice,

you can nourish yourself.

Once you nourish yourself,
you can nourish your loved ones.