Sitting Meditation:The Dissolution and Letting Go of Self-Centeredness
The deepest transformation in practice is not the acquisition of special states...
Sitting Meditation:The Ordinariness and Accessibility of Awakening Experience
Awakening is often misunderstood as rare, mysterious, or reserved for a few...
Sitting Meditation:The Impact of Calming Practices on Life
Calming practice is not an escape from reality, but a return to clear awareness of life itself...
Sitting Meditation:The Worldly Integration of Meditative Practice
Meditative practice is not an escape from reality, but the embodiment of awareness...
Sitting Meditation:Bringing Meditative Stability into Everyday Action
Meditative stability is not meant to remain on the cushion...
Sitting Meditation:The Timeless and Unchanging Nature of Primordial Awareness
Before all experiences, there is an awareness that does not depend on conditions...
Sitting Meditation:Methods for Breaking Through the Current Level of Meditative Absorption
When a practitioner becomes familiar with a certain level of absorption...
Sitting Meditation:The Threshold State Approaching Awakening
As practice deepens, body and mind may approach a subtle and sensitive threshold...
Sitting Meditation:Observing All Phenomena with a Meditative Mind
When the mind rests in meditative stability, observation no longer arises from habitual judgment...
Sitting Meditation:Momentary Insights Arising Within Meditative Absorption
n deep meditation, the mind withdraws from distraction and fabrication, allowing awareness to become clear and penetrating...
Sitting Meditation:Potential Risks of Deep Meditative Practice
Deep meditation can greatly enhance concentration, awareness, and inner clarity...
Sitting Meditation:Adjusting Body and Mind After Emerging from Meditative Absorption
After meditation, body and mind shift from inward stillness and collectedness back into sensory activity...
Sitting Meditation:Transcending Attachment to Pleasant Meditative Experiences
Pleasant states—peace, joy, luminosity—often arise in meditation and easily become objects of attachment...
Sitting Meditation:Recognizing the Illusory Nature of the Self Within Concentration
When concentration stabilizes, the sense of “I” loosens...
Sitting Meditation:Pure Awareness Before Thought Arises
Before thought forms, there exists a non-conceptual awareness—clear, open, and awake...
Sitting Meditation:Forgetting the Body, Clarifying the Mind
As concentration deepens, bodily presence no longer dominates attention...
Sitting Meditation:The Ten Progressive Stages of Deepening Dhyāna
Dhyāna is not a sudden attainment, but a continuous refinement of mind from distraction to clarity...
Sitting Meditation:The Spontaneous Integration of Concentration and Insight
Concentration and insight are not separate paths. In mature practice...