Wildmind's meditation blog
Wildmind's blogs are where you'll find book reviews, commentary, podcasts, and articles that don't fit neatly into the more structured guides to meditation that you'll find on the main part of the site. Articles are arranged below by date, and you can also browse by author and category using the links on the left.
Meditation zeitgeist, Oct 29, 2008
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A not-entirely-random selection of blog posts on meditation.
Meditation, smiling, mood control, and relationships
Adventures in zazen meditation
Tibetan monks who can heat up their bodies at will
Meditation behind bars: Interview with Sister Elaine MacInnes, Zen Master & Catholic nun
Ask Deepak: Teaching children meditation
600 years of solitude, by Michael Chaskalson (Kulananda)
On the Irish isle of Skellig Michael, Celtic Monks once pursued a tough life of meditation. Kulananda (Michael Chaskalson) feels a connection across the centuries with these vanished contemplatives, and senses a continuity between his own efforts and theirs.
I am traveling about the Kerry coast with the team that runs the Dublin Meditation Center. As the Center’s president, I visit from time to time, helping out where I … Click to read more »
Meditation zeitgeist, Sept 23, 2008
A not-entirely-random selection of blog posts on meditation.
Vipassana meditation
Neural correlates of Zen meditation
The Finer Points of Map Based Practice
Science of Happiness
Words for Milo
Sitting Together in Silence
way past right/wrong
Original faces: Reflections on purification
Saccanama has heard Vajrasattva’s bell calling him to realize his own innate purity, and is on a return journey to reconnect with his own stainless nature.
At the beginning of the Purgatorio, the second great canticle of Dante’s Divine Comedy,
Dante and Virgil emerge from the darkness of the Inferno to see “the tender tint of orient sapphire.” It is dawn, and Venus, “the lovely planet kindling love in man,” lights up the eastern sky. To the West … Click to read more »
“Healing Breath: Zen for Christians and Buddhists in a Wounded World,” by Rubin Habito
Zen and Christianity may have much to offer each other and to learn from each other. But is it possible to be both a Christian and a Zen Buddhist? Author Ruben Habito seems to think so. Reviewer Samayadevi is more skeptical.
Ruben L F Habito was for many years a Jesuit priest serving in Japan. He studied with both Father Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, a spiritual pioneer in inter-religious dialog and with Koun Yamada, a … Click to read more »