TRISTEN CHURN

ZEN MEDITATION: 9:00pm – 10:00pm, 03.09.2008, Wednesday It is crucial for you to understand what meditation is. It is not some special posture, and it's not just a set of mental exercises. Meditation is the cultivation of mindfulness and the application of that mindfulness once cultivated. You do not have to sit to meditate. You can meditate while washing the dishes. You can meditate in the shower, or roller skating, or typing letters. Meditation is awareness, and it must be applied to each and every activity of one's life. This isn't easy. -Henepola Gunaratana, "Mindfulness in Plain English" If we have...presence of mind then whatever work we do will be the very tool which enables us to know right and wrong continually. There's plenty of time to meditate, we just don't fully understand the practice, that's all. While sleeping we breathe, eating we breathe, don't we? Why don't we have time to meditate? Wherever we are we breathe. If we think li...

ZEN MEDITATION: 9:00pm – 10:00pm, 20.08.2008, Wednesday Clarity of the mind attains after acknowledging after accepting after solving after letting go of the unclear mind May you have the clarity of mind.

ZEN MEDITATION : 9:00pm – 10:00pm, 06.08.2008, Wednesday Last Wednesday was quite special as other than the usual attendees, Shirley, the generous owner of Lily’s Café joined us for the session. Although it was a small group but we have a lot of fun during the session because of the laughter energy was up in the air. The witty energy was tickling us while we discussed on the following basic concepts of Zen Meditation: 1) There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? -“The Practice of Meditation,” Zen Master Dogen Quotes from group: Lily’s quote: “I like the first one as this is true and simple” Tristen’s quote: “We live in a city with a speeding lifestyle pace, most of us tend to focus on material level and lost our identities in it, without realising this fact. Others may f...