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Many temples contain shukubo (Temple Lodging), and provide a wonderful opportunity to stay in an incredibly atmospheric setting, eat delicious shojin ryori (vegetarian food for monks) and watch or even participate in esoteric religious rituals or meditation. There are famous shukubo all over Japan,...
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...
It’s not so much do I have a teacher to learn meditation, because a householder could find a meditation teacher preferably a Buddhist if they wanted to. The broader question is how do I learn to meditate? Getting some help from a meditation teacher would be helpful, but meditation is suc...
Book Reviews Buddhist Websites Quotes Quotes as PicturesChallenges for the Householder – Meditation Introduction This is the fourth post in the series regarding challenges for the Buddhist Householder. I recommend reading each of them in this sequence: Exploring the Householder Path in Buddhism Challe...
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. ...
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. ...
” He replied: “I seek to see Bodhisattva Mañjuśrī personally bestowing great precepts [on me].” The old woman said: “If it is so, I now give you this Dharma robe. It is only that I am afraid that it is difficult to see the Bodhisattva, and even in case of seeing [you]...
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...
In meditation, we begin to learn about ourselves as basic human beings, and when we learn about ourselves, we learn how to change. Our mind is like hard ground that has not seen water for a long time. That ground is not capable of giving nourishment to anything. Whatever is planted in...