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...
打坐参禅:数息与随息的经典应用
数息与随息是最基础、也最稳妥的入门止修方法,用于建立专注、安定身心,并为更深层的禅定奠定基础。
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...