SHIKANTAZA, or "just sitting," is alert nonselective attention which neither pursues nor suppresses thoughts, sensations, etc., but, rather, gives alert detached attention to whatever arises in and vanishes from Awareness.
Shikantaza literally means "Just Sitting". That is real meditation...
i looked at, on sunday, GURSIKH's thread Ajaapa Jaap ! 24*7. I really liked Snatam Kaurs songs and some of the other ones. So later that say I went to a book store and bought a book entitled "SIKH RELIGION" by the Sikh Missionary Center. I began to read about Waheguru, Guru Nanak Dev, and Im on...
Every once in a while (not every day) Ill post a good quote that is Taoist. It you want to post one, feel free!
"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning."
-Lao Tzu
In early Taoism Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu where both agaisnt Morals and Ethics. Ch. 19 of TTC says that we shoud drop Humanity and Justice, or Compassion and Morals so that we can go back to Tao. Im whats called a Purist Taoist. This means that I practice Taoism as it is in the Tao Te Ching and...
in Taoism there is Enlightenment, but its different from some other "Enlightenment Traditions". In this form of enlightenment you harmonize yourself with Tao or the way of the universe. You become Spontaneuous, natural, and humane. Lao Tzu once said "The sage doent sleep because its time too, or...
Just as above you is the Macrocosm, a massive spiralling universe, far too huge to even idly comprehend, so too within you is a microcosm. This microcosm reaches and descends within you to the most finite level, and then beyond measurement. On top of this, every other 'cosm' of whatever size or...
Hello Im Taoist and I recently fell in love with Taoism and have chose it to help me live my live in harmony with the universe. Im very interested in such things like No-thought, meditation, and other things like that. Im a junior in High School and have taken a major change in my life. Im now...