Zen Teaching of Emptiness (Shunya)

Zen Teaching of Nothingness 

There are no rules when it comes to Enlightenment, but what I have noticed is that awareness shifts out of Duality and into infinite Reality more so during quiet moments when the mind is not heavily occupied with daily activity.  It was just such a scenario that led to the shift which took place most unexpectedly last night.

Yesterday was our seventh wedding anniversary and miraculously we manged to get the kids to bed early, so we could enjoy some private celebrations, as all happy couples ought to on such special occasions.  Eventually, the evening wound down and I found myself with the opportunity to practice my nightly meditation, which I do in bed prior to going to sleep every night.

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How to Let Go

Enlightenment Experiences via Insight Meditation

I was originally going to provide a very nice and simple yoga set to help with eye problems, but then my morning meditation session propelled an enlightenment state, sharing which I felt would be of great benefit to all of you.  So the Yoga for Eyes set will have to wait till next week, while I provide you the details behind the meditation which opened my inner eyes instead :-).

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Meditation for Beginners

Learn How to Meditate

Free Online Beginner Meditation Class - Course #100 

Interested in Meditation?  Want to learn how to meditate?  Don’t know where to begin?  Then this class is for you…

Lately I have been getting many requests from those who are new to meditation, on how to learn this wonderful spiritual science and how to establish a personal, daily meditation practice.  Perhaps this is because the widespread benefits of meditation are now well recognized by the establishment, or perhaps it is because humanity is in the midst of rising to a new level of Conscious Living.  In either case, this Beginner Meditation Class will provide those new to meditation all the guidance they need in order to learn this great art. 

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The Art of Suffering

Law of Karma 

A spiritual story… 

The Saint of Suffering

Part I - Injin the Joyous

In a small village on the banks of the great river Ganga, there lived an immensely happy boy named Injin.  He was full of the energy of life and seemed to be tapped right into the hidden stream of spontaneous joy that runs through the heart of every human being.

His contagious smile made the whole village a happy place and all the villagers loved spending time with this uplifting spirit.  All except one… the Seer.

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Non-duality, Hinduism, Buddhism & Enlightenment

Advaita Vedanta & Zen Buddhism 

I did a google search for the term "non-dual" on this very site and got 742 hits!  So I thought it was high time I wrote something on this topic :-D.

Actually, a reader asked if I could help him understand what all this business of non-duality was all about, as he was not quite sure he was grasping it properly, and as understanding non-duality is absolutely key for real spiritual growth, here is hit number 743.

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How to Find Spiritual Enlightenment 

Best Meditation for Enlightenment 

We begin with a Zen story…

The Best Path to Enlightenment

Senior monk Tara shook her head in disbelief as she looked around the meditation hall at No Wind Monastery.  She could hardly believe what she was seeing.  The meditation hall, her favorite place on Earth, which was normally full of devoted, sincere monks working hard to break out of the delusion of duality, today looked like a circus gone wrong.

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Spiritual Time Management - Part 2

Zen Teachings on Time Management

In part 1 of spiritually oriented time management, we introduced the key concept of doing things right away.  So, whenever life popped up with a task to do, the idea was to try to reject all excuses and make every effort to try and respond to that challenge and get the work done.

This approach would then allow new opportunities to emerge and prevent the mind from being weighed down with clutter and incomplete tasks.  In this second part of the series, we will continue to understand time, and time management from the perspective of a spiritual heart.

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Time Management from a Spiritual Perspective - Part 1

Zen Teachings on Time Management

There have been volumes written on time management in the personal development and self-help space, but, I would like to tackle this issue form a different angle all together.  I would like to explore this art of time management from a spiritual perspective, which I think you will find to be surprisingly useful and beneficial.

This is going to be a 2 part series and although the focus is on time management to promote spiritual evolution, I think what you will discover this approach to be very helpful to you in all areas of your life.

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Realizations from Deep Meditation Practice

The Great Cosmic Joke

In this ongoing series on Insights from Advanced Meditation Practice, I am sharing the realizations which occur with the practice of the Silent Mind Meditation Technique, Gyan Yoga or Zen Meditation.  The insights are the notes that I put down after any such deep meditation session, and their content is a reflection of that which was realized when encountering certain states of consciousness or perceiving directly the facts of our internal reality.

These entries tend to be very direct and uncompromising, and are unedited in order to preserve the impact and state of mind which produced the message.

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Buddhist Meditation Technique Video

Zen Buddhist Meditation Video - Zazen Practice

The heart of Buddhist meditation is Zazen or Zen meditation technique.  The second instructional video of this Video Series for Daily Meditation Practice is this profound Buddhist Meditation technique.  This video complements the article on Zen Meditation Technique from the Online Guided Meditation Technique Book.  So please reference that article for all the details of this terrific meditation, as the video focuses more on teaching you how to take the right posture and mudra (hand position).

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