Meditation and the Principles for Training Body and Mind
Hoofprint of the Ox February 22, 2001 Master Sheng-yen, Dan Stevenson
Abstract Meditation-above all, seated meditation-:-has always been one of the foundational practices of Buddhism. Sakyamuni Buddha realized supreme enlightenment while seated in meditation beneath the bodhi tree. When he set out to establish the teachings and convey this enlightenment to others, he organized the Buddhist path according to the three basic disciplines of purity in the observance...