Instructions on Sitting or Meditation
Well, we recommend meditating for at least 20 minutes a day if possible. But sometimes our days are just really busy. So here is a 60 second guided meditation for our busiest days.
Here is a quick and basic guided meditation in 10 minutes. It is a mindfulness awareness hybrid meditation also known as shamatha-vipashyana meditation. This can be done as a daily practice.
Here are some recent Basic Meditation Instruction, guided meditations and meditation talks from CT Tamura, Joseph Mauricio, John Baker and others: Podbean Podcasts from Awake New York weekly classes and The Shambhala Center in NYC: https://awakenewyork.podbean.com C.T. Tamura, John Baker and Michael Rogan endeavor to take traditional buddhist teachings on meditation and present them in … [Read more…]
Pema Chodron was a student of Chogyam Trungpa, the Tibetan Buddhist meditation master and teacher who founded the Shambhala tradition here in the U.S. She is highly regarded as teacher and author and in the videos below, Pema Chodron gives some background and instruction in the meditative practice of Tonglen, which uses difficult circumstances as … [Read more…]