WALKING MEDITATION

Today Ill deal with the continuation of my talk on the practical exercise of Vipassana meditation or insight meditation. Yesterday I explained walking meditation very briefly. So today I think I should elaborate on the practise of walking meditation. As to walking meditation the Buddha laid emphasis on awareness of the movement of the foot…

MINDFULNESS OF DAILY ACTIVITIES

Awareness of daily activities is the very life of a meditator. Once one fails to observe an activity, one loses one”s life, as it were. That is, one ceases to be a meditator, being devoid of mindfulness, concentration and wisdom. The faculty of mindfulness becomes powerful by constant and uninterrupted awareness of every activity throughout…

SITTING MEDITATION

Sitting meditation is like returning home to give full attention to and care for our self. Sit upright, relax your body and return to your breathing. Bring your full attention to what is within and around you. Let your mind become spacious and your heart soft and kind. Sitting meditation is very healing. We realize…

TWO LEVELS

Two Levels of Understanding, I will review my talk on the two levels of understanding so that you can remember it. The first level is understanding the specific characteristics of mental and physical phenomena. The second is understanding the general or common characteristics of mental and physical phenomena. Each mental process or physical process has…

THE SIX DOORS OF THE SENSES

Well continue our discourse on the chapter of clear comprehension in the Maha Satipatthana Sutra. Before I go to this chapter I would like to continue to explain the six sense bases and the six objects, and the six consciousnesses, because yesterday I dealt with contemplating on the consciousness of seeing with several objects. In…

THE SIX ELEMENTS EXPLAINED

In accordance with the Buddhas philosophy this so called person is composed of six elements: the four material elements and the one mental element. Of the four physical, material elements the first one is the element of hardness and softness. We call it pathavi dhatu. The second is the element of fluidity and coalition. We…

MEDITATE RIGHT NOW

If you fail to meditate on the rising phenomena and so do not know their real nature of impermanence, suffering and not-self, you may relive them and thus let defilements be. This is a case of latent defilements. Because they arise from objects, we call them “object latent.” What do people cling to and why…

THE END OF GUILT

Once upon a time there was a spiritual seeker named Jiva. After trying many different ways to become pure and holy and attain enlightenment, he had gained a great degree of self-control. He was no longer blindly reactive to the actions of people, places and things he came in contact with. Nor did he squander…

BUILDING AN INNER TEMPLE

We are going to “create” and “build” an inner Temple of Light. We will create this sacred inner space with ETHERIC AND ASTRAL MATTER. Before giving you the details of this mental creation, I would like to say that the BLUEPRINT and archetypal model of your temple of Light exists already in your psyche and…

MANDALAS

Don’t over-think what you’re putting on the page. The best way to make a mandala is to use an intuitive, spontaneous process of simply allowing whatever wants to show up next to show up. You will learn more by allowing this intuitive process to happen than by trying to direct it. It’s about the process,…

E=MC2

  Within us is an energy that is life-giving and has the wisdom to cause us to thrive and evolve. A corpse has every organ, every bone, every part that we have, but doesn’t have this energy and thus doesn’t have life as we know it. In Japan a few years ago, scientists did an…

4-4-8

Position yourself in your most comfortable meditation posture. Relax your body, mind, and emotions. Witness the way you are breathing. As you can see, you are hardly inhaling or exhaling at all. Maybe the air is only going 2 or 3 inches down into your chest and only 2 or 3 inches out from your…