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Meditation is an essential spiritual practice for settling the mind and connecting with our true mind, which is clear, calm, and tranquil. Through meditation practice, we can better understand ourselves and appreciate more of the things and people around us as we meet them from a place of calmness, compassion, and wisdom. Individual Meditation InstructionContinue reading “Learn to Meditate”

Sitting meditation is a practice that, in the mind, calms wandering thoughts and manifests the true nature. It is also a method that, in the body, causes the fire energy to descend and the water energy to ascend. As delusive thoughts are calmed, the water energy will ascend; as the water energy ascends, the delusiveContinue reading “Sitting Meditation”

Chanting meditation is a method of practice that focuses the mind that is distracted among the myriad things into the one pointed mind by reciting a simple phrase or Sutra. Because the mind of a beginning meditator is not settled, chanting meditation is a very efficient method to calm down one’s mind. How To ChantContinue reading “Chanting Meditation”