What Meditation Actually Is By Roshi Teja Fudo Myoo As we begin to take a deeper look at meditation, you might also find it helpful to read my companion article,…

PART ONE: THE INVITATION A Reflection on Trauma-Sensitivity, Meditation, and QigongDharma By Roshi Teja Fudo Myoo Perhaps you came to meditation hoping for relief.  You had heard the promises that…

PART TWO: UNDERSTANDING WHAT'S HAPPENING When meditation increases your distress instead of easing it, the experience can feel bewildering.  You followed the instructions.  You tried to be present.  And yet…

PART THREE: THE DOORWAYS OF PRACTICE If the front door is locked, you find another way in.  This is not defeat; it is wisdom.  The house is still there, waiting…

PART FOUR: THE GRADUAL OPENING A flower does not bloom by force.  You cannot pry open the petals and call it blossoming.  The opening happens in its own time, when…

PART FIVE: TRUSTING YOUR OWN PATH We have traveled together through these pages, through the understanding of why meditation can hurt as well as heal, through the workings of the…

What Meditation Is Not Reclaiming Bhāvanā as a Living Practice By Roshi Teja Fudo Myoo Before We Begin Years ago, during a retreat, a student approached me during a walking…

KNOWING FOR YOURSELF The Buddha's Teaching on Direct Inquiry and Embodied Wisdom TEACHING TWO: The Kalama Sutta Direct Inquiry and the Path of Verification By Roshi Teja Fudo Myoo The…

KNOWING FOR YOURSELF The Buddha's Teaching on Direct Inquiry and Embodied Wisdom TEACHING ONE: The Four Reliances A Framework for Autonomous Practice By Roshi Teja Fudo Myoo For more than…

Awakening as a Way of Life: The QigongDharma Vision There is a kind of waking up that turns our gaze outward.  We begin to see the patterns of injustice woven…