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Question: Can you share some tips for being mindful for new practitioners? Also, do you have any tips for being motivated to meditate for new practitioners? I read the post about being mindful at work the other day and this is something I would LIKE to do but it is a daunting task because my job involves . . . → Read More: Help With Mindfulness and Meditation Sleeping in the Daytime The master Soyen Shaku passed from this world when he was sixty-one years of age. Fulfilling his life’s work, he left a great teaching, far richer than that of most Zen masters. His pupils used to sleep in the daytime during midsummer, and while he overlooked this he himself never wasted a minute. When . . . → Read More: Koan: Sleeping in the Daytime Pity by William Blake Question: The first thing I would like to say is that I am not what I would call a Practicing Buddhist. It just so happens that Buddhism and my natural beliefs and attitudes are expressed in Buddhist. It has actually been through your website and podcast that I have come . . . → Read More: Compassion and Pity Question Hi, I just wanted to say how much I enjoy the Daily Buddhism. I have recently taken my dedication to Buddhism seriously. But sadly, I am having a hard time bringing it to my parenting particularly with discipline. I can hug, hold, listen etc. with 100% of my being but I am still . . . → Read More: Buddhist Parenting and Discipline  20 comments - (Comments are closed)  Daily Buddhism, Meditation  buddhism, children, discipline, respect Review: Seeds of Kindness Beads “May you be happy, may you be healthy, may you be peaceful, may you be safe.” A couple of months ago, I reviewed the book “The Gift of Loving Kindness.” In the introduction of the book, one of the authors mentions that she sells beads. When I contacted her for more information, . . . → Read More: Review: Seeds of Kindness Beads 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Daily Buddhism, Meditation, Reviews beads, lk, loving-kindness, Meditation Book: The Method of No-Method: The Chan Practice of Silent Illumination Someone a few weeks back lamented their inability to go on a retreat. This book is the perfect solution to that situation, as it’s essentially a retreat in book form. . . . → Read More: Book: The Method of No-Method, by Chan Master Sheng Yen Q&A #14 OK, I said last week that I was done with the questions for a little while, but this one seemed important, and one that I really can’t answer. If any of you have a suggestion or solution to this, please post it on the site or send me an email and I’ll forward . . . → Read More: Question: Meditation and Medical Conditions Meditation Part 5: Mindfulness Meditation Where are you right now? What are you doing right now? What’s going on around you right now? Open your mind, open your senses. Be aware. Absorb. You’ve heard the old saying about blind people, that when someone loses one sense, the others senses get stronger. There’s more to it than . . . → Read More: Meditation Part 5: Mindfulness Meditation Comments are closed Daily Buddhism, Meditation awareness, be here now, Meditation, Mindfulness, sense Meditation Part 6: Mantra Meditation Some people find it easier to meditate by focusing their awareness on a sound. When meditating, they recite or chant some kind of phrase or sound repeatedly, listening to the sound, being aware of how the sound is formed, and concentrating on the sound itself. Some sects of Buddhism rely heavily on mantra . . . → Read More: Meditation Part 6: Mantra Meditation One comment - (Comments are closed) Daily Buddhism, Meditation ah re hum, chanting, mantra, Meditation, om mani padme hum Meditation Part 7: Conceptual Meditation This is the ‚Äúbig one‚Äù that really confuses people. When you hear things like ‚Äúloving kindness‚Äù meditation, or ‚Äúmeditation on impermanence,‚Äù or even meditation on a koan or physical object, this is the broad category involved. The mind focuses on itself and examines itself as you work through the problem or . . . → Read More: Meditation Part 7: Conceptual Meditation Comments are closed Daily Buddhism, Meditation body, compassion, concentration, conceptual, corpse, focus, impermanence, loving-kindness, meditate, Meditation, mind |
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