Sitting Meditation:Cultivating Non-Attachment to All Objects
Non-attachment is not avoidance, but freedom within experience—without grasping or fixation...
Sitting Meditation:Practicing the Direct Seeing of Emptiness
Seeing emptiness is not abstract reasoning, but directly recognizing...
Sitting Meditation:Guarding Against Attachment to Calm States
Calm naturally arises in practice, but attachment turns it into an obstacle...
Sitting Meditation:The Progressive Stages of Jhānic States
Jhāna is not a single experience but a gradual refinement of mind from coarse to subtle...
Sitting Meditation:From Local Awareness to Holistic Wisdom
The direction of practice is to allow focused, localized awareness...
Sitting Meditation:Subtle Transitions of Meditative Absorption
Meditative absorption is not static; it evolves through subtle adjustments in stability and clarity...
Sitting Meditation:Practices for Enhancing Sustained Concentration
Brief focus is not concentration. True stability lies in continuity, cultivated through appropriate means...
Sitting Meditation:Practice of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness
The four foundations—body, feeling, mind, and phenomena—guide awareness...
Sitting Meditation:Classical Applications of Counting and Following the Breath
Counting and following the breath are foundational methods for calming the mind and establishing concentration...
Sitting Meditation:The Importance of Integrating Concentration and Wisdom
Concentration without wisdom leads to stagnation; wisdom without concentration leads to instability...
Sitting Meditation:The Wisdom of Insight~Penetrating Illusion
Insight is not conceptual analysis, but direct seeing...
Sitting Meditation:The Practice of Samatha~The Path to Mental Calm
Samatha is not suppressing thoughts, but allowing the mind to settle naturally...
Sitting Meditation:Stabilizing and Refining Awareness
Awareness does not arise from force, but from stability...
Sitting Meditation:Illusory Phenomena Arising in Meditation
Lights, visions, unusual sensations, and symbolic images may appear during meditation...
Sitting Meditation:Transcending the Identity of the Observer
In meditation, many adopt the stance of “I am observing,” mistaking this for awareness itself...
Sitting Meditation:Distinguishing Thought Content from Awareness Capacity
A common confusion in meditation is mistaking thought content for awareness itself...
Sitting Meditation:Distinguishing the Levels of Meditative Absorption
Meditative absorption is not a single, uniform state, but a gradual process with clearly distinguishable levels...
Sitting Meditation:Subtle Transformation of Sensations in Samadhi
As concentration deepens, sensations refine, reflecting growing stability and integration...