You don’t have to be able to read and understand French to discover the music of Zen meditation. Simply listen to this beautiful music with headphones. The therapeutic frequencies and binaural beats take you to a lovely spot in your mind. It is so easy to sit back and relax and listen to this music. […]
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The Mindful Art Of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh
April 7, 2013 by
When I attended the 2011 retreat in Vancouver, British Columbia, I was treated to the mindful art of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, known as Thay, meaning teacher, by his followers. The retreat was held on the lovely campus of the University of British Columbia (UBC). One of the highlights of the retreat was the Calligraphic Meditation […]
Three Frames Of Insight From Zen Master Albert Einstein!
September 18, 2012 by
I bet you didn’t know that Albert Einstein was a Zen Master! How did I come to this conclusion? Buddhists talk about two broad types of meditation: samatha (calming) and vipassana (insight). One develops samatha and that leads to vipassana. The insights in these frames can be the results of insight meditation. They came naturally […]
Meditation Practices of Zen and Tantra
May 3, 2012 by
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche was born in 1939 and died in 1987. He started the Shambhala Buddhist community and is well known for his book, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism. In another book, The Teacup & the Skullcup:Chogyam Trungpa on Zen and Tantraa, he talks about the meditation practices of Zen and Tantra. The meditation practices of […]
Meditation Practices of Zen Forest Monks in China
April 15, 2012 by
I am so excited by this video about the meditation practices of zen forest monks in China. Their tradition dates back perhaps 5000 years! In an early part of the video, the master and disciple are working together in the garden. The disciple asks the master to sit for a moment and give a teaching. […]
Zen Meditation Practices Taught By Harada Roshi
April 13, 2012 by
Zen meditation practices taught by Harada Roshi include counting the breath, following the breath and koan meditation (“thinking about a problem to exhaustion”). The easiest of these is probably counting the breath. You find a comfortable position (not necessarily the lotus posture) and sit or lie down. You count your breaths from one to ten. […]
Zen Meditation Practices Instructions
March 28, 2012 by
I did my first Zen meditation sesshin in 1972 at the San Francisco Zen Center with Zen Master Dainin Katagiri Roshi. A sesshin is a seven to ten day intense immersion in Zen meditation practices with instructions. Every now and then, you get to have a face to face meeting, called dokusan, with the Zen […]
Oprah Interviewed Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh
March 25, 2012 by
I was so excited when I was notified that Oprah interviewed Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh in 2010 on Oprah.com. Since about 1985 or so, I have been doing meditation practices in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh. We lovingly call him Thay. My understanding is that this means something like “honorable teacher”. The interview […]
Words of Wisdom for November 11, 2024
November 11, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Dear Friends: Zazen Is Enough Don’t worry about whether your practice is working, don’t judge your performance, don’t tell yourself stories or find other ways to avoid this very moment. These are just ways of separating from our deepest intention and our zazen. When you do zazen, just do zazen. That’s enough. – Roshi Pat […]
Words of Wisdom for November 08, 2024
November 8, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Dear Friends: To be in touch with someone, a friend, who knows the path of freedom, who knows how to generate solidity and compassion is something very necessary. There is a very important word in Buddhism: kalyanamitra. It means a friend who is wise, a friend who has light – a true spiritual friend who […]
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