Breathing Exercise: Calm Balancing Breath
Sit comfortably or lie down in a comfortable position. Let your body relax and bring your mind to the awareness of this moment here and now. That's the only place you need to be in the Here and Now. ...
Meditation Stories: The Bird’s Eye
About 5000 years ago the great acharya (teacher) Drona decided to test his students' skill in archery. To test their aim he set up a wooden bird as the target on a distant tree and invited his studen ...
Meditation Stories: The story of Zazen
Once a Zen master noticed a monk trying too hard to meditate. So he interrupted the monk and asked: "What are you doing bhikhu (a wandering monk that takes alms)?" "I am meditating to become a ...
Memento Mori – Memento Vivere
Memento Mori a Latin phrase meaning "Remember Death" has been – since the mediaeval times – an anchor used philosophers and ascetics alike as a constant reminder of death and decay aiding them to shi ...
Why Meditate? The most IMPORTANT reasons
Why Meditate? This is a very interesting question because at once most people need some reason to do something but at the same time if you do meditate with any ulterior motive it's not meditation. B ...
The Essence of Meditation
Meditation is not an abstract or remote state unnatural to humans. In fact, it is the most spontaneous and natural state which has been lost during conventional education and affairs of daily life. ...
Five ways MEDITATION Apps ruin us
Meditation and mindfulness have been around for thousands of years, with their origins in Dharmic traditions such as Hinduism and Buddhism. In recent years, however, there has there been a surge in p ...
What is Meditation? A philological and theological exploration.
The word ‘Meditation’ is one of the most misused rather abused words of the English vocabulary. It is so mistreated that we no longer know what it precisely means. For instance, it could mean mere mu ...