The Dharma
meeting you where you are
Why should I sit with a group? A group can:
1. give you positive energy during meditation
2. offer insights your never thought of
3. connect you to the human race and universe of which you are part.
4. offer refuge by witnessing your presence without judgment.
Zen Meditation
Sitting meditation is one way we practice. "Just sitting" gives us a place to pay attention to what is happening at the moment. We note our breath going in and out, note the bird chirping outside the window, note the truck lumbering up the street. We pay attention. If the mind wanders to events of yesterday or anxieties about tomorrow, we note those thoughts. We pay attention. We practive looking to the teachings of the Buddha and the Soto and Rinzai Zen traditions.
John Tarrant on Meditation
from Unicorns Come all by Themselves
For this meditation you can be sitting, walking, waiting for a train, talking, or even falling asleep. For the time of this meditation you do not have to assess yourself or others or be an expert in any way. You do not have to succeed or fail. You do not even have to change your state of mind.
All you need do is to try this:
On every out breath, breathe the words,
“I don’t know.” Just that. “I don’t know.”
Do this for minutes or years.
Tell someone what you notice.