`` A portable companion always ready to go where you go -- a small friend weighing less than a freshborn infant -- to be shared with few or many -- just two of you in sweet meditation ''.

After her return to Earth, Guanyin was said to have stayed for a few years on the island of Mount Putuo where she practised meditation and helped the sailors and fishermen who got stranded.

After snatching a few hours ' sleep without removing his clothing, he usually spent the rest of the night in prayer and meditation.

Due to this emphasis on individual personal meditation in Rastafari, the expression of Ital eating varies widely from Rasta to Rasta, and there are few universal " rules " of Ital living.

" On The Tonight Show a few months later, Lennon said that " We believe in meditation, but not the Maharishi and his scene ".

Other possible treatments for love-shyness include any treatments or self-help methods that have been shown to help other social anxiety problems ( a few such examples are CBT, exposure therapy, meditation, etc .).

Some meditation levels have too few or too many hollows, in which case the player must produce extra hollows or remove existing hollows in order to complete the level.

Over the next few years, the community purchased land for a program center ( including a meditation hall and residence hall ), retreat land higher in the mountains bordering on Wilderness Area, and a teachers ’ residence.

A few of these were eventually ordained as monks in both the Mahayana and Theravadan tradition, and upon returning home became influential meditation teachers establishing such centres as the Insight Meditation Society in America, such as Bill Porter.

A few Breslovers also use a form of mantra meditation by repeating a word or phrase over and over.

A few people believe that these structures served instead as places of prayer or meditation for Irish monks who may have once lived in the area.

They have lost their value, except for the few matters of fact embedded in a mass of commonplace meditation, and for some occasionally brilliant illustrations.

A few months after ordination, he sat a ten-day Vipassana meditation retreat with the Indian teacher S. N.

During the next few years Dilgo Khyentse received full schooling from various tutors, in addition to training in meditation, and in the study of the Dharma in general, and of Tantra specifically.

John also made pilgrimages to the sanctuary of Scherpenheuvel, a few miles from Diest, either reciting the rosary as he went, or being absorbed in meditation.

They remain in prayer and meditation mostly, although they are allowed to do the minimum domestic work to run the family. When the Holy Prophet ( sal ) observed i ' tikaf in a tent, he saw a few tents around his.

In his foreword to the 2003 Modern Library paperback edition, John Stauffer writes: “ My Bondage and My Freedom ,” a deep meditation on the meaning of slavery, race, and freedom, and on the power of faith and literacy, as well as a portrait of an individual and a nation a few years before the Civil War.

Tummo is taught in both Asia and the West by a few qualified Tibetan lamas, typically to students who have mastered other ' preliminary meditation practices ' ( ngondro ).

The island has a hotel, a few bed and breakfasts and a yoga and meditation centre.

A few brick arched underground chambers beneath some of the cells have also been noticed which were probably meant for confined meditation by the monks.

A few years later, his enthusiastic students encouraged Dr. Thích Thiên-Ân to apply for permanent residence and open a meditation center that included a place for practitioners to live and study Zen Buddhism.

Once, while accompanying a Sister on a charitable visit, she said to her: “ Sister, let's begin our meditation !” She suggested the plan, the outline, in a few simple, clear words and entered into prayer.

A few recent psychological studies suggest that loving-kindness meditation may impact health and well-being.

Lennon later told his version of the story in a Playboy interview, stating that: "‘ Bungalow Bill ’ was written about a guy in Maharishi's meditation camp who took a short break to go shoot a few poor tigers, and then came back to commune with God.

Prints are highly portable and these works made Dürer famous throughout the main artistic centres of Europe within a very few years.

A few Hittite centres remained in northern Syria, along with some Phoenician ports in Canaan that escaped destruction and developed into great commercial powers.

While a few settlements on Lake Balaton, including Balatonfüred and Hévíz, have long been resort centres for the Hungarian aristocracy, it was only in the late 19th century that the Hungarian middle class began to visit the lake.

A few live in the urban centres.

Some countries have abandoned psychosurgery altogether ; in others, for example the US and the UK, it is regulated and only used in a few centres on small numbers of people with depression or obsessive-compulsive disorder ( OCD ) who have already undergone years of treatment.

In the UK between the late 1990s and 2010 there were just two centres using psychosurgery: a few stereotactic anterior capsulotomies are performed every year at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, while anterior cingulotomies are carried out by the Advanced Interventions Service at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee.

Operations are also performed at a few other centres.

In few years, Rennes became one of the main centres in high tech industry.

This was, however, the case in most of the cities in Finland and only a few examples of intact wooden city centres survive to this day ( for example Old Rauma ).

Nowadays Zutphen has one of the best preserved medieval town centres of North-Western Europe, including the remains of the medieval town wall and a few hundred buildings dating from the 13th-15th century.

A few important Anglian centres in Bernicia bear names of British origin or are known by British names elsewhere: Bamburgh is called Din Guaire in the Historia Brittonum ; Dunbar ( where Saint Wilfrid was once imprisoned ) represents Dinbaer ; and the name of Coldingham is given by Bede as Coludi urbs (" town of Colud "), where Colud seems to represent the British form, possibly for the hill-fort of St Abb's Head.

One of Norway's few curling centres lies in Halden.

The Romans continued the expansion of Singidunum ( modern capital Belgrade ), Sirmium ( Sremska Mitrovica ) and Naissus ( Niš ), among other centres, and a few notable remnants of monuments survive, such as Via Militaris, Trajan's Bridge, Diana, Felix Romuliana ( UNESCO ), etc.

It is one of the few centres in New Zealand that were never linked to the rail network.

Phased disbandments began within a few weeks with RIC personnel both regular and auxiliary being withdrawn to six centres in southern Ireland.

Although some knowledge of Aristotle seems to have lingered on in the ecclesiastical centres of western Europe after the fall of the Roman empire, by the ninth century nearly all that was known of Aristotle consisted of Boethius's commentaries on the Organon, and a few abridgments made by Latin authors of the declining empire, Isidore of Seville and Martianus Capella.

Growth was very slow and deliberate with a few new branches opened in emerging regional centres.

On closer examination, a few earthworks show a village of two centres.

A member of Parliament for one borough might represent only a few people, whereas some large population centres were poorly represented.

In Communist Yugoslavia, Serbian language and terminology were prevailing in a few areas: the military, diplomacy, Federal Yugoslav institutions ( various institutes and research centres ), state media and jurisprudence at Yugoslav level.

The Carolingian art of the Frankish Empire, especially modern France and Germany, from roughly 780-900 takes its name from Charlemagne and is an art of the court circle and a few monastic centres under Imperial patronage, that consciously sought to revive " Roman " styles and standards as befitted the new Empire of the West.

Over the next few years more stations opened in other capitals and regional centres, and gradually these new stations affiliated with the 0 – 10 Network.

It is distributed from Monday to Friday ( excluding bank holidays ) on many public-transport services in selected urban centres across the United Kingdom and at a few other outlets such as selected cafes, workplaces, bus stops, etc.

Several banks fell and some of the few manufacturing centres established in the Commonwealth were closed.