Posts Tagged ‘vipassana’

• From Shamatha to Vipassana

  written by YeShey on Monday, January 18th, 2010

  Shamatha meditation is taught in Steps 1 and 2 of our Mindfulness Meditation Program.  Shamatha is translated as calm abiding or quiescence and its purpose is to give us the opportunity to experience a state of calm silence and single pointed concentration.  The result is an experience of exceptional mental health and balance. [...]

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• Children, meditation and world peace

  written by Simone on Monday, January 11th, 2010

  Last year the David Lynch Foundation along with the Transcendental Meditation Program launched a campaign to “Teach One Million At-Risk Youth to Meditate.” The goal of their global peace initiative is to bring meditation to youth, parents and staff in schools around the world in hopes of reducing the effects of stress [...]

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• Retreat

  written by YeShey on Thursday, October 29th, 2009

  As wonderful as it is to meditate every day, you will find that it is very helpful to do meditation retreats now and again. They help you to strengthen and deepen your practice by being completely immersed in meditation and only meditation all day long. There are all sorts of mediation retreats [...]

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