The Experience Of Samadhi

Author : Richard Shankman
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780834824010
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Experience of Samadhi written by Richard Shankman and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dharma practice comprises a wide range of wise instructions and skillful means. As a result, meditators may be exposed to a diversity of approaches to the core teachings and the meditative path—and that can be confusing at times. In this clear and accessible exploration, Dharma teacher and longtime meditator Richard Shankman unravels the mix of differing, sometimes conflicting, views and traditional teachings on how samadhi (concentration) is understood and taught. In part one, Richard Shankman explores the range of teachings and views about samadhi in the Theravada Pali tradition, examines different approaches, and considers how they can inform and enrich our meditation practice. Part two consists of a series of interviews with prominent contemporary Theravada and Vipassana (Insight) Buddhist teachers. These discussions focus on the practical experience of samadhi, bringing the theoretical to life and offering a range of applications of the different meditation techniques.

Author : Richard Shankman
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781590305218
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Experience of Samādhi written by Richard Shankman and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an in-depth look at the foundational aspect of Buddhist meditation known as samadhi, or concentration: the ability of the mind to remain calm and settled without distraction. In part one of the book, Richard Shankman looks at the range of views and understandings about the experience of samadhi and offers a comprehensive examination of it using teachings attributed to the Buddha as well as later commentaries. He compares the diverse descriptions and presentations of samadhi in order to present a broad understanding of it and its place in meditation practice. He examines different, often conflicting, views and how these various views are related.In part two, he presents a series of interviews with prominent contemporary Buddhist teachers, including Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, and Christina Feldman, that focus on the practical experience of samadhi. This section of the book brings the theoretical to life, offering a range of approaches to and applications of the different meditation techniques.

Author : Richard Shankman
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
ISBN 13 : 1626252955
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art and Skill of Buddhist Meditation written by Richard Shankman and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art and Skill of Buddhist Meditation offers a practical guide to building a strong meditation practice by unifying mindfulness, concentration, and insight into a single, integrated approach. Mindfulness and insight—clearly knowing what is happening in one’s present moment experience—and concentration—the ability of the mind to remain steady and undistracted—are foundational elements of meditation, yet people are often confused about how these aspects of the practice fit together. Should they be doing insight meditation or concentration practices? How does concentration fit into insight meditation? To help, The Art and Skill of Buddhist Meditation offers specific guidance for cultivating both insight and concentration in meditation. This book will be of interest to both beginning and experienced meditation practitioners who wish to familiarize themselves with, deepen their understanding of, and increase their practical skills in mindfulness, concentration, and insight meditation. New meditators who want hands-on skills they can easily put into practice will find the step-by-step instructions accessible and easy to understand. Experienced practitioners will find a complete and useful guide for deepening insight and cultivating the deeper stages of concentration known as jhana. This book also discusses the most common experiences that can arise as the meditation process unfolds, and will help you find the approaches and techniques that work best for you.

Author : Stuart Ray Sarbacker
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791482812
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samādhi written by Stuart Ray Sarbacker and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical and comparative study grounded in close readings of important works, this book explores the dynamics of the theory and practice of yoga in Hindu and Buddhist contexts. Author Stuart Ray Sarbacker explores the fascinating, contrasting perceptions that meditation leads to the attainment of divine, or numinous, power, and to complete escape from worldly existence, or cessation. Sarbacker demonstrates that these two dimensions of spiritual experience have affected the doctrine and cultural significance of yoga from its origins to its contemporary practice. He also integrates sociological and psychological perspectives on religious experience into a larger phenomenological model to address the multifaceted nature of religious experience. Speaking to a broad range of methodological and contextual issues, Samadhi provides numerous insights into the theory and practice of yoga that are relevant to both scholars of religious studies and practitioners of contemporary yoga and meditation traditions.

Author : Gregor Maehle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780977512676
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samadhi written by Gregor Maehle and published by . This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his fifth book, Gregor Maehle shows how all yogic techniques and methods collaborate to bring about its pinnacle - the state of samadhi. The book culminates in a detailed description of the eight classical samadhis as listed in the Yoga Sutra, both from the practical view of content and experience and from the techniques to access them. The author also shows the importance that these states have for a new enchantment with our world, nature, and all beings. On the way to that climax, Maehle dissolves misconceptions about samadhi, shows the importance of both objectless and the much-neglected objective samadhi, what exactly stands in the way of their arising, how obstacles are removed and dissolved, the role of the teacher, and the role of grace and devotion. He also shows how many other yogic techniques contribute to samadhi. Also covered are: - The future possible spiritual evolution of humanity - The difference between yoga/mysticism and religion - The one underlying truth and essence in all sacred traditions - Integration of the mystical state - Samadhi, enlightenment, situationism, and developing the center - Why ecstasy is important - Whether it is possible to experience the world as it truly is? - Conditioning and its historical aspect - The process of deconditioning - Converting mind into intelligence - Types of karma - Asking, guidance, and consecration - The Divine in the Yoga Sutra - Withdrawing the guru projection - A new way of looking at the teacher - The two inner sheaths and their states - Wrong objectless samadhis: videha and prakrtilaya - Samadhi and the breathless state - Samadhi and chakras - Samadhi and mudras

Author : Steven R. Vazquez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442258128
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spiritually Transformative Psychotherapy written by Steven R. Vazquez and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiritually Transformative Psychotherapy offers fresh insights into counseling people with diverse spiritual and religious philosophies. Grounded in theory and research, this text focuses on building contemplative methods like meditation into practice and provides valuable applications to help clients achieve spiritual and emotional wellbeing.

Author : Sasvati Nome
Publisher : Society of Abidance in Truth
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflections: January February March 2020 written by Sasvati Nome and published by Society of Abidance in Truth. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: REFLECTIONS is the SAT Temple’s quarterly journal. “Reflections” contains transcriptions of satsangs at SAT given by Nome, the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi, excerpts from “The Ramana Way,” (the RMCL journal), excerpts from numerous Advaitic scriptures, updates on events occurring at the SAT Temple, and much more.

Author : Sirshree
Publisher : WOW PUBLISHINGS PVT LTD
ISBN 13 : 8194467519
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swami Vivekananda written by Sirshree and published by WOW PUBLISHINGS PVT LTD. This book was released on 2020-01-06 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been an unmatched master-disciple pair in India that is illustrated world over today. This pair is that of Ramakrishna Paramhansa and Swami Vivekananda. If Swami Vivekananda is the crown of the temple of Indian spirituality, his master Ramakrishna Paramhansa is its foundation stone. Therefore, whenever Swami Vivekananda is remembered, memories of Ramakrishna Paramhansa naturally come alive. Their relationship is an epitome of the master-disciple tradition. Swami Vivekananda’s quest for truth culminated at the feet of Ramakrishna Paramhansa, and after that, he propagated the teachings of his master to the worldwide. Besides some inspiring incidents from the lives of the master-disciple duo, this book also narrates their ideals and mutual affection for each other. On reading this book, you will come to know how a master grooms his disciple through teaching, training, and testing. This book will provide you with an opportunity to witness how a master and his disciple can symbolize the term “two bodies and one soul.”

Author : Alan Finger
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834841924
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tantra of the Yoga Sutras written by Alan Finger and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A readable, accessible version of the ancient classic primer on the practice of yoga--interpreted by a contemporary Tantric yoga master. The Yoga Sutras is Patanjali’s classic text on how to experience oneness (samadhi) within yoga practice. Serious yoga students want to bring the wisdom of the Sutras to their practice but often find the text impenetrable and difficult to relate to. Here, yogi and Tantric master Alan Finger offers an interpretation of the Sutras that is clear and immediately relevant—and he shows contemporary practitioners that samadhi is something that they can experience here and now. Yoga is a process of spiritual evolution, and samadhi is as natural as breathing and available to all, because it is our true nature. Viewed through a Tantric framework, Finger shows us how the Sutras describe the yogic process that both leads us to the experience of samadhi and allows us to weave the wisdom and grace of that experience back into our everyday life.

Author : Mike Sayama
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438418760
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samādhi written by Mike Sayama and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1985-10-01 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The key to self-development, says Mike Sayama, is the experience of Samadhi, a state of relaxed concentration in which the individual neither freezes out of fear nor clings due to desire. Simply stated, samadhi is the free flow of vital energy within the body and between the body and the universe. Moving effortlessly across traditions and techniques, Sayama discovers that sages throughout history—Greek philosophers, German mystics, Indian seers, and our own Albert Einstein among others—have taught that this experience of transcendental oneness lies at the heart of full self-realization. The first part of the book studies self-realization in Zen Buddhism. The author pinpoints its essence in Buddha's enlightenment. The development of Zen is then traced, continuing down to living masters who in very recent times have transplanted their lineages from Japan to the United States. Sayama notes that we must choose as masters those to whom the authentic teaching has been transmitted through generations, and he examines in loving detail the sometimes strange and astonishing behaviors of those whose very presence communicates the state of samadhi. The second part of the book presents Zen therapy, a way of self-development emphasizing the cultivation of samadhi through psychophysical training. Sayama compares the effects of Rolfing, Feldenkrais, and Zen therapy on the human body and mind. He includes easy-to-follow directions for creating the inner state he describes. He tells vivid stories of extraordinary cases treated from the point of view that the best therapy is nothing less than the removal of all dualism. Four main practices are presented: zazen (meditation), hara development, circulation of the vital energy, and communication.