How To Transmute Negative Energy With Tonglen Meditation | Zenful Spirit: "Tonglen is a Tibetan word which means “giving and taking.” As a spiritual practice, it refers to the sending and receiving o…
ZEN Chill a primary technique used to disengage from a dissociative drama when direct contact is unavoidable.Zen Chill is disengaging emotionally and giving neutral responses to what someone does or…
Sebastian de Assis is a writer and international teacher who conducts workshops, seminars, and presentations on his concept of Power Aging which he defines as "the potential for self-empowerment." Em…
ZEN visualisationsThe holistic practice of creating positive images of healing within the mental body, which allows the emotional body to respond by becoming receptive to the healing, which subsequen…
Raw food dietThe holistic practice of eating food in its whole, unrefined and uncooked form that’s positively and negatively balanced, supplying the body with a plentiful supply of solar energy and a…
“To Taoism that which is absolutely still or absolutely perfect is absolutely dead, for without the possibility of growth and change there can be no Tao. In reality there is nothing in the universe w…
True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent. All methods aiming at achieving a certain state of mind are limited, impermanent, and conditioned. Fascination wi…
“The ultimate understanding is that there is no ultimate understanding.” When it’s in the head, it’s an impressive piece of understanding; when it’s in the heart, as the Buddha said, it’s extinguish…
The meditational awakening we speak of is not simply a realisation, not simply the discovery of one’s true nature. This discovery is just the beginning—the point of entry into an inner revolution. Re…
Meditation, the practice of looking deeply, has the purpose of removing wrong perceptions from us. If we are able to remove our wrong perceptions,we will be able to be free from the afflictions and t…
"Practice is the repeated effort to follow the disciplines which give permanent control of the thought-waves of the mind.""Practice becomes firmly grounded when it has been cultivated for a long time…
'Discrimination' between what is eternal and what is ephemeral;'Dispassion' to reject that which is ephemeral in order to gain that which is eternal;'Discipline' of the mind to divert it from trivial…
Brain mapping has shown that we’re hardwired for empathy. The recent discovery of “mirror neurons” has done for behavioural health what DNA has done for genetics. Mirror neurons are what turn on our …
In the real deepest reality of our being, what we call a 'US' is a dynamic bundle of consciousness that is constantly transforming. Where is the self when we were fourteen years of age? Where is the …
ZEN MIND AND MEDITATION CENTRESomatic Meditation takes our body as the fundamental arena of meditation practice. Rather than trying to develop meditation through our our left-brain, thinking mind in …
“ Just remaining continuously in a bright sense of presence without grasping at anything will bring us a sense of inexpressible bliss. We still continue to see all of the mountains, lakes, trees, hou…
It is useful to begin with a more tangible object to calm and refine one's awareness. Breath awareness can be perfect for this. We should cultivate a general awareness of the breath coming in and goi…
CLEAR SPACEThe challenge of meditative practice is to cultivate stability-integrated with clarity, generating an extraordinarily useful quality of awareness. To bring this about, experienced meditator…
CLEAR SPACE Clear Space awareness of the breath is practiced in many different ways. Some people focus on the rise and fall of the abdomen during the in- and out- breath. Another technique is to focu…
