Metta Meditation is a Buddhist meditation technique that aims at cultivating mental and physical wellbeing through Metta (Loving Kindness). The technique is focused on acquiring Loving Kindness for all living beings including ourselves, in a [ Read more … ]
Buddhist Medicine is an umbrella term for a broad variety of ideas and practices with regard to illness and health that have emerged within Buddhist contexts, or which — alternatively — have been embraced as [ Read more … ]
Jitanamai, also written as Jittanamai, Chittanamai, or Cittanamaya, is part of the Thai Dhammanamai Self-Care principles and is about having a healthy mind that’s characterized by clarity, stability, capability, and happiness. The word Jita, Jitta, [ Read more … ]
Body Prayer is an embodied emotional and mental practice, that involves praying with the participation of one’s body and bodily experiences. It’s a holistic somatic activity that integrates body, emotion, and mind in a devotional [ Read more … ]
We all know about the five human senses, that is, our taste (gustatory sensory system), hearing (auditory sensory system), smell (olfactory sensory system), touch (somatosensory system), and sight (visual sensory system). In relation to somatic [ Read more … ]
Noble Silence is thought to originate as a phrase and directive from Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha), the founder of Buddhism. It refers to the idea that in relation to the pursuit of spiritual enlightenment and [ Read more … ]
Guided Meditation is the practice in which one or more participants meditate (or enhance their meditation practice) with help of the guidance given by a trained meditation practitioner or teacher. The guide (teacher) may be [ Read more … ]
Simply said, Meditation Music is music that aids or accompanies the practice of meditation, or is alternatively used to meditate on. It may have a specific religious content, being vocal or only instrumental, but it [ Read more … ]
Churches, temples, and in a more general sense the inner domains of sacred places are usually territories marked by silence. These are typically devotional spiritual or religious spaces meant to contemplate, to rest from the [ Read more … ]
In 2014, I stumbled upon a short video titled A Teaching From Zen Master Jinen posted on YouTube by El-Branden Brazil. It’s a little questions and answer session — a kind of Satsang — between [ Read more … ]
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