Buddhist meditation

it seeks to find enlightenment through meditation. Meditation is a core expression of spirituality in the Buddhism faith. Meditation is a means of transforming the mind and is practiced with techniques that encourage and develop concentration, clarity, emotion positivity and a calm seeing of the true nature of things (Project Meditation, 2007). Buddhist meditation is an ancient spiritual expression which has been around since around 500B.C, where Siddhartha Gautama was said to have achieved enlightenment while…

I went to a Buddhist temple for my field activity. I got through the meditation ceremony and I found it really calming relaxing. It emphasize just letting go and being one with yourself. There main message was about world peace and since I’m not in a position to change that I focused on how the actual service itself was conducted. There weren't any interaction between the listeners and the monk general. The sprayer was also prerecorded and play through speakers with the monk general just gave…

detained increasing populations of inmates in this system. The Buddhist…

Introduction Meditation is a practice that continues to flourish in the religion of Buddhism throughout the countries in South and Southeast Asia. It has been a prominent practice for thousands of years and many people who practice meditation do it as a form of discipline. Self-discipline is a main focus point in Buddhism since it is one of the methods in seeking enlightenment. Meditation was a practice that the Buddha himself once indulged in, in order to find enlightenment. In the Buddhist…

Walking into the Rime Buddhist Monastery was an experience unlike any other I have ever had. Upon opening the doors was a shrine of Buddha, surrounded with offerings of candles and incense. The friendly peopled welcomed me warmly, openly answering questions I had. Even though the Monastery was a new experience, it opened doors allowing me to view inside another culture, even momentarily to understand a completely new philosophy, different from the one taught by my family. Information boards…

music, and avoided any sort off distraction. Turned off my cellular device and whatsoever disturbances. As I listened, I guided my focus to the detail of the melody: the tempo, the contrasting organ or resound at differing intervals, the interlude, fine-tune and the scene lyric. I begin to observe the way the music was impacting my body as I listen: my inhalation, my keenness and my body rhythm changed. I guided my focus to the music and my attention to the whole of my body, my bodily…

Another version of MBIs is the practice of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) which was desined specifically for treating those suffering from borderline personality disorder (BPD). BPD is characterized by unstable emotive and cognitive processes—symptoms that mindfulness training largely targets. DBT is highly effective in treating these clients and “…has been shown to reduce self-mutilation and suicidal behavior in chronically suicidal patients with borderline personality disorder [and]…

Doing Time, Doing Vipassana is a documentary that explores the use of a meditation technique named Vipassana in one of India’s most harshest prisons as a means of rehabilitation for the prisoners. The filmmakers spent a lot of time inside the Tihar Central prison in New Delhi where they interviewed the inmates and the jail officers along with the woman who introduced the Vipassana meditation technique to the prison, a woman named Kiran Bedi, a former General of Prisons in India. The film…

All individuals have the capacity to become mindful, and as a result, mindfulness is often referred to as a practice. As mindfulness has become part of the mainstream, it’s definition as expanded. Depending on who is talking about mindfulness, it might be described as a mental state to be achieved, or, as a set of skills to be learned. Jon Kabat-Zinn was introduced to meditation while he was a molecular biology Ph.D. student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He studied meditation…

For my encounter I listened to "Shakuhachi: the Music of the Universe”. While at home for spring break, I woke up one morning and listened to the music that this flute type instrument creates, and it gave me a very relaxing mood to start off my day. I have grown up in the mid-West and can say that I look at most of these regions with a western perspective and can say that before this class I thought Buddhism was a little ridiculous. The flute that ultimately creates the music is made of bamboo…