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...
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...