Stillness as a path to clarity.
Access step-by-step secular meditation practices rooted in ancient traditions and supported by modern psychology and neuroscience.
Christian monasticism was not born in cathedrals or universities. It emerged in sand-swept caves, in stone huts beneath olive trees, in the whispered silence of the early centuries after Christ.
Mindfulness meditation may be defined as nonjudgmental awareness through purposeful holding of attention, being in the moment, for mental and physical health, self-knowledge and wisdom.
While there are a number of schools of Zen, this article will focus on the Japanese Soto sect teaching of shikantaza, or “just sitting” method of meditation, probably the most straight-forward example of Zen Buddhist meditation.
Chinese mystics adopted and adapted Buddhism to their needs, replacing the Indian focus on dharana, or concentration, with Daoist cultivation in meditation. This practice of sitting meditation, known as zuo chan, would eventually flower into Chan Buddhism.
The Buddha’s meditation is a way of life, a religion, rooted in the simple act of sitting calmly and being awake to reality.
This handbook is a guide to a seated silent meditation, which for the purpose of precise definition, is called Illumination meditation.
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