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breaks, exercise, sleep and personal hygiene time. When we do individual retreats, often we set our own schedules. I modeled this summer’s mini-retreat schedule mostly on the same schedules I followed while on individual retreats at the main meditation center (Rigdzin Lingin northern California...
As well as meeting together and addressing live topics and priorities across Triratna, the International Council meetings also are a context for members to meet together and build community, this year, taking as our Dharma theme the arising of the Bodhicitta, through study and meditation. The ser...
The multi-level complex captivates the eye with different statues, stupas, a meditation centre and a newly built pagoda on the top. If you are lucky with the weather while visiting four levels of the Wat Tha Ton, the place offers a spectacular view from the Crystal Pagoda. ...
the events from the first and the third parts of theQLSZversion are merged into a single dramatic episode of a robe-granting old woman being immediately substituted by a celestial image of Mañjuśrī. This increases the emotional intensity of the scene, and provides additional proof that the...
Zen Buddhist practice is sometimes called“wall-gazing” meditation, a reference both to Bodhidharma — the sect’s purported founder — and his nine years meditating while facing a monastery (or, cave) wall, but also to Zen’s eschewing of meditation aids like paintings and statutes. The wall...
Source : Edmonton Buddhist Meditation Group “Why We Chant” –byZen Master Seung Sahn,excerpted fromDropping Ashes on the Buddha One Sunday evening, after a Dharma talk at the International Zen Center of New York, a student asked Seung Sahn Soen-sa, “Why do you chant? Isn’t sitting Ze...
WALKING MEDITATION Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh and Monastics Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere. Walk peacefully. Walk happily. Our walk is a peace walk. Our walk is a happiness walk. ...
Mindfulness, or shamatha meditation produces a mind that is able to settle. When we are doing spiritual practice, we have to have a mind that is able to stay in the moment, stay in the situation, long enough to absorb and understand. If we say, for example, “May the suffering of all...
s a new beginning for me- one that I would like to approach in a thoughtful and centered manner. Chod is an amazing form of meditation that was developed by Machig Labdron, a female Tibetan Buddhist master who lived in twelfth century Tibet. As a child she was precocious, and grew up ...