The Origins of Illumination Meditation Meditation is defined as a focusing of awareness, confining the attention to a single thing, bringing the mind to a state of tranquility and clarity. There are many kinds of meditation developed all over the world for various purposes. This article will focus primarily on the science surrounding […]
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Power of the Mind 1: The Science of Visualization
By D. B. Smith on October 24, 2018 in Dr. Andreas Laurencius, MD, Health, Meditation, Science&Tech, Visualization
CONTENTS PART 1: Creative Visualization | Guided Meditation | Relaxation | Health and Immunity | Healing | Athletics | Life Goals | Holistic Imagery for Success CONTENTS PART 2: Studying and Professional Skill Building | Mnemonics | The Memory Palace | Artistic Creativity | Enlightenment | The Universal Person | Archetypes | Inner Alchemy | Spirituality | Meditation, Mental Health and Enlightenment | Mindfulness Meditation CONTENTS PART 3: Meditation, the […]
Tantric Yoga: Philosophy and Meditation
Tantric Cosmology Tantric Yoga, developed in the sixteenth century CE, seems particularly concerned with anatomy, which is largely spiritual. Tantra applies the three gunas to energy, as causal, subtle, and gross, and to man, as sat, will (or transcendental consciousness), chit, knowledge (or mind), and ananda, action (or matter.) These three qualities […]
Chinese Daoist Alchemical Meditation
Basics The descriptions of Daoist alchemical meditation in this article are for the purpose of visualization, and no scientific claims are made regarding “spiritual anatomy” or the benefits of the meditations. The Science Abbey articles, “My Zen, Part II: Ageless Chinese Wisdom” and “My Zen, Part III: Alchemy, Qigong and Taijiquan” present a […]
My Zen Part III: Alchemy, Qigong and Taijiquan
Read My Zen Part II: Ageless Chinese Meditation Origins of Chinese Inner Alchemy Chinese Inner Alchemy includes meditation, breathing and movement exercises like Qigong and taijiquan. In both Chinese Daoist alchemy and the Western Royal Art, two distinct interpretations of alchemy have developed over time: ‘external alchemy’ (Mandarin waidan) and ‘internal […]
My Zen Part II: Ageless Chinese Meditation
Read My Zen Part I: The First Meditators: Indian Yoga CHINESE PHILOSOPHY & DAOIST MEDITATION A Note on the Romanization of Chinese Words Pinyin is used in this article as the convention amongst scholars today. With Chinese words that are relatively well known to English speakers, the popular Wade-Giles system is […]
Traditions: An Introduction to the “My Zen” Series
Traditions: An Introduction to the “My Zen” Series Face-to-face I see the top of Mount Tiantai; Solitary in its height it stands above the common crowd. Swaying in the wind, the pines and bamboo breathe in harmony; When the moon shines the ocean tides roll continuously. I look down below to the end […]
My Zen Part I. The First Meditators: Indian Yoga
The First Meditators: Indian Yoga Part I of the My Zen Series Read “My Zen” Series Introduction: Traditions IN THE BEGINNING… It is interesting to me that at some point when the world was young, before industry, before electricity, and previous to the global domination of the major religions, somebody sat down […]