Category Archives: Meditation

Learn to Meditate Meditation is an essential spiritual practice for settling the mind and connecting with our true mind, which is clear, calm, and tranquil. Through meditation practice, we can better understand ourselves and appreciate more of the things and people around us as we meet them from a place of calmness, compassion, and wisdom.Continue reading “Learn to Meditate”

Sitting Meditation Sitting meditation is a practice that, in the mind, calms wandering thoughts and manifests the true nature. It is also a method that, in the body, causes the fire energy to descend and the water energy to ascend. As delusive thoughts are calmed, the water energy will ascend; as the water energy ascends,Continue reading “Sitting Meditation”

Chanting Meditation Chanting meditation is a method of practice that focuses the mind that is distracted among the myriad things into the one pointed mind by reciting a simple phrase or Sutra. Because the mind of a beginning meditator is not settled, chanting meditation is a very efficient method to calm down one’s mind. HowContinue reading “Chanting Meditation”

Walking Meditation Walking Meditation can be the link between sitting meditation and your daily activity. It is a wonderful initiation for beginners into the art of meditation. When you are able to practice walking meditation very well and maintain the meditative state of mind as you walk, you can apply that skill to your dailyContinue reading “Walking Meditation”

Koan Meditation A kōan (公案) is a spiritual question that is used to focus one’s mind when practicing meditation by giving rise to the questioning mind as to the nature of ultimate reality. The koan is meant for contemplation and defies rational understanding. It works to exhaust analytic thinking and the dualistic mindset. Therefore, aContinue reading “Koan Meditation”

Won Moving Meditation Won Moving meditation is the awakening practice for finding our true-self by uniting mind and body, not seeing them as separate things. To govern our mind, we should have the wisdom that comes from observing the body. To use the body well, the mind should keep equanimity. Moving Meditation helps us notContinue reading “Won Moving Meditation”