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BDG News: Scientific Study of 12 Buddhist Monks Reveals New Depth in the Neurological Benefits of Meditation

🔗 Read more: https://tinyurl.com/yc5bbd62

#Buddhism #Tteravada #BuddhistMonk #BuddhistPractice #Meditation #Neuroscience #Samatha #Vipassana #BrainActivity

hervé Sep 17, 2025

after meditating in nature, in the wild mountains or bathed in the beautiful energy of the west coast of scotland, the extraordinary samye ling temple is a compulsory stop on the journey. it is such an amazing place, and a long sitting there was a really powerful and deep experience.

#meditation #samatha #vipassana #mindfulness #buddhism #kagyu #scotland #nature

The Open Buddhist University Aug 23, 2025

📖 Jhana Training Manual (A ✨NEW✨, free, 127-page book)

Tags: #Samatha #Samadhi
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/booklets/jhana-training_piskacek-thomas

Jhana Training Manual

These states cannot compare to anything experienceable in everyday life. Calling them the utmost meditative bliss, peace, and release is not an exaggeration.

The Open Buddhist University

Weekend Stories Jun 2, 2025

#Meditation in #Buddhism is not merely a technique for calming the mind, but the core of the path to liberation. Integrating calming (#samatha) and insight (#vipassanā), it transforms perception, dismantles suffering’s roots (#dukkha), and fosters ethical character — bridging philosophy and lived experience.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-06-01-meditation/

#WeekendStories

The Open Buddhist University Mar 13, 2025

📰 The Neurophysiological Correlates of Religious Chanting (A free, 9-page article from 2019)

Tags: #Chanting #Religion #Neuroscience #Samatha #Pureland
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/neurophysiological-correlates-of_gao-junling-et-al

The Neurophysiological Correlates of Religious Chanting

the neurophysiological correlates of religious chanting are different from those of meditation and prayer

The Open Buddhist University

The Open Buddhist University Nov 6, 2024

📰 Common Core Thesis and Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Mysticism in Chinese Buddhist Monks and Nuns (A free, 17-page article from 2011)

Tags: #Samadhi #Samatha #Zen
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/common-core-thesis-and-qualitative-and_chen-zhuo

Common Core Thesis and Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Mysticism in Chinese Buddhist Monks and Nuns

This study explores the phenomenological structure of mystical experience among 139 Chinese Pure Land and Chan Buddhist monks and nuns. Semi-structured interviews, thematic coding, and statistical analyses demonstrated that Stace’s common facets of mysticism as measured by Hood’s Mysticism Scale successfully described Buddhist experience as modified by Buddhist doctrines.

The Open Buddhist University

Stay Calm Apr 27, 2024

I'm going to do a 2 month #DarkRetreat this summer. Here's a photo of the room (below ;-)

The primary practice will be Internal Trataka - eg observing the lights / images produced by the mind. This becomes quite easy in the dark. The images appear before you in space - and they are quite bright in the darkness. This is a Samatha practice but I will frequently let go of the images and allow them to dissolve. In other words, #Samatha will be used as a basis for #vipassana

#Metta #Meditation