Meditation Standing

[SaynotoKlaus]

 Is anyone meditating while standing ? I just did a sessions like this , it was pretty good. It's definitely harder to feel sleepy or lost in thoughts compared to when i'm sitting on a chair ( didn't try cross-legged yet , it's kinda painful for my legs).

To me it seems that standing is the improved version of keeping your back straight. Is there a reason why i shouldn't meditate like this?

Edited February 11, 2016 by SaynotoKlaus

[jjer94]

There are no rules as to how you should meditate. Do whatever feels best to you! 

[Prabhaker]

On 2/11/2016 at 9:05 PM, SaynotoKlaus said:

It's definitely harder to feel sleepy or lost in thoughts compared to when i'm sitting on a chair ( didn't try cross-legged yet , it's kinda painful for my legs)

A certain silence immediately comes to you if you stand quietly.

Try it in the corner of your room: just in the corner stand silently, not doing anything— suddenly the energy also stands inside you. Sitting, you will feel many disturbances in the mind, because sitting is a posture of a thinker. Standing, the energy flows like a pillar and is distributed equally all over the body. Standing is beautiful.

Try it because some of you will find it very, very beautiful. If you can stand for one hour, it is just wonderful. Just by standing and not doing anything, not moving, you will find that something settles within you, becomes silent.

A centering happens, and you will feel yourself like a pillar of energy; the body disappears.

Mahavir , last Jain Tirthankara (Teaching God) always meditated standing. 

Try any technique, but stick to it for a few days so that you can feel whether it is working or not.

[Dodo]

Around where i live, there is this man i keep seeing on the street. He stands in one place doing absolutely nothing. I guess hes doing just that. 

[Prabhaker]

17 minutes ago, Dodoster said:

there is this man i keep seeing on the street. He stands in one place doing absolutely nothing

Guarding can be very very useful—it can become a great meditation if you do it rightly, because all that is needed for the meditation is a requirement for being a good guard. For example you have to be alert, very alert, you have to be watchful about who is passing and what is happening all around…if anybody passes by you have to look without any purpose, without any judgement; you have just to see, and that's what meditation is!

There is a hassidic parable…. A hassidic rabbi could not sleep one night, so in the middle of the night he came out of his house and walked on the road. There he met another man who was guarding a rich man's house, so they walked together, and the rabbi asked him, 'What kind of work do you do?' And he said, 'I am a watchman.' The watchman asked, 'What kind of work do you do?'
And the rabbi laughed—he said, 'I am also a watchman but not as good as you! I fall asleep many times. My alertness is not perfect—I miss. There are gaps in my watchfulness.