The practice of looking within or meditation is arguably the most important "place" of worship for Buddhists. The details of meditation -- the practice of mental concentration in order to eventually reach Enlightenment -- may differ from person to person and branch to branch. Yet meditation's m...
Tibetan Buddhists may opt for a sky burial, in which one's remains are left exposed to be consumed by vultures. Some people plan to be cremated when they die while others may find the thought of destroying their body by fire -- even after they're dead -- to be disturbing. Some ...
Tibetan Buddhists may opt for a sky burial, in which one's remains are left exposed to be consumed by vultures. Some people plan to be cremated when they die while others may find the thought of destroying their body by fire -- even after they're dead -- to be disturbing. Some ...
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...
How to Use Protection Stones: There are several ways you can bolster your emotional strength with protection stones.Healing crystalsfor protection can be worn, used to create grids, kept on sacred altars, or worked with in meditation. It just depends on your intended function for the crystal. ...
Nepal has dozens of domestic airport terminals all over the country that people make use of to avoid long road journeys. Kathmandu to Pokhara only take 30mins on a plane vs 10+ hours on a bus. That's a big difference if you are stuck for time. Do not buy domestic airline tickets on...
Mindfulness meditation, however, refers to a popular kind of meditation that is known to Buddhists assamatha. If you’re interested in combining the two into a simple mindful meditation exercise, then I recommend this simple blueprint. In the following section, I included 14 steps for adding me...
If the gangrene hypothesis were really true, practicing Buddhists and other serious meditators would all be amputees. Numbness in the legs during long periods of sitting is pretty normal. So relax. Follow these eight simple steps to do the lotus posture without getting numb, painful legs. ...
(since they are our guides, not our masters), but in the resources offered by the Stoic philosophical system as a whole. This approach is not unusual, being the same sort of exercise that modern Buddhists, say, or Christians, or Jews, engage in whenever looking at their own tradition for...
For Buddhists, there are a number of benefits associated with the practice of prayer. It encompasses both a physical and mental aspect of meditation that can enhance contemplation of the holy texts. In Hinduism, prayer is called Prārthana. Hindu prayers can be broadly classified into three catego...