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Learn Buddhist meditation techniques:

http://arobuddhism.org/meditation/learn-buddhist-meditation.html

 

 

What the course covers

Some of the course’s topics are:

• Breath meditation – several methods
• Posture and physical supports: how to be comfortable, relaxed, alert, and still
• When and how much to meditate
• How not to meditate
• Formless meditation in emptiness
• Presence and awareness; thought and reality
• Walking meditation
• Meditating with strong emotions
• How to take the insights of meditation into everyday life

Some details come from the Tibetan Buddhist Dzogchen approach. However, the techniques are quite similar to those found in other Buddhist traditions: vipassana, shamatha-vipashyana, mindfulness and insight meditation, and shikantaza (from the Zen tradition).

 

 

Why meditate?

Some benefits of meditation are:

• increased creativity and spontaneity
• greater self-acceptance, self-understanding, and self-confidence
• mindfulness: better focus, concentration, and patience
• the ability to recognize counter-productive habitual patterns of thought and to let go of them
• reduced tension (mental and physical), anxiety, stress, emotional conflict and turmoil
• clarity of purpose and a sense of meaning; the ability to see what is important versus what is urgent but superficial
• greater empathy, connection, harmony, and intimacy in relationships
• health benefits, including lower blood pressure, lower cholesterol, and improved sleep
• a sense of lightness, ease, peace, wholeness, relaxation, and well-being
• spiritual insight; understanding of one’s relationship with the vastness of existence
• passion for life, enjoyment, verve, and appreciation.