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Iron Palm – General Principles

Iron Palm training often involves three primary components: # Strengthening of the striking limbs by developing the tendons and ligaments from the shoulders to the fingertips, then striking or slapping relatively hard objects enclosed in canvas/leather bags. Following a conditioning session, the striking area is usually treated with a medicinal aid created from plant derivatives, [...]

ConFest – History

The first gathering was held at the Cotter Dam Reserve, southwest of Canberra. The second gathering, in 1977, was on rented farmland (Mount Oak) near Bredbo, south of Canberra. It attracted 15,000 people. The farm was subsequently purchased with the festival takings as an open community. ConFest in its early years was a melting pot [...]

Dennis Lewis – Introduction

Dennis Lewis (1940-) is a non-fiction writer and teacher in the areas of breathing, qigong, meditation, and self-enquiry. In the book ”The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Taoism” Lewis is recommended as a source of instruction in Taoism for people who don’t have much time for study and practice. His breathing instruction and practices have also [...]

Buddhist meditation – Introduction

Buddhist meditation strictly refers to the teaching of the historical Buddha, but is used more generally to describe any practice associated with the modern religion of Buddhism. Under the latter, more general heading, very few traditions correspond to any textual definition set down in the Pali canon, i.e., the most ancient record of the Buddha’s [...]

Dhammakaya meditation – Features

The identifying feature of Dhammakaya meditation is the meditator’s attention towards the centre of the body, at a point described in the Buddhist Sub-commentaries two finger breadths above the navel. This point is exactly the same point as the end-point of the deepest breath in mindfulness of breathing meditation (Anapanasati). It is called an approach [...]

Guru Meditation – Description

When a Guru Meditation is displayed, the options are to reboot by pressing the left mouse button, or to invoke ROMWack by pressing the right mouse button. (ROMWack is a minimalist debugger built into the operating system which is accessible by connecting a 9600 bit/s terminal to the serial port.) The alert itself appears as [...]

Preksha meditation – Introduction

Preksha meditation [Preksha Dhyana] is a popular meditation technique of Jainism . It was formulated by the tenth Spiritual head of Terapanth Shvetambara Jain Acharya Mahaprajna in the middle of the 20th century on the guidance of Acharya Tulsi. It is the combination of knowledge from ancient religious books, modern science and experience. Acharya Mahaprajna [...]

Acem Meditation – Literature

Inner Strength – the free mental attitude of Acem Meditation, Acem Publishing, ISBN 82-91405-09-3 Acem Meditation – an introductory companion, Acem Publishing, ISBN 82-91405-13-1 Fighting Stress – Reviews of meditation research, Edited by Svend Davanger, Halvor Eifring and Anne Grete Hersoug, ISBN 978-82-91405-16-2 Adapted from the Wikipedia article Acem Meditation, under the G. N. U. [...]

Dhammakaya meditation – Dhammakaya Meditation on the Vipassana Level

Dhammakaya meditation embarks on the Vipassana level at a later stage than some other meditation schools available in Thailand. In this school, insight relies on purity of ‘seeing and knowing’ (”ñānadassana-visuddhi”) i.e. a mind that is stable, and has penetrative insight into the reality of life and the world. Such insight will allow the meditator [...]

Acem Meditation – Effects

Relaxation is presented as a basic effect of Acem Meditation. The beneficial effects of the technique on insomnia, concentration problems, headaches and other bodily symptoms, social relations etc. are seen as extensions of the relaxation response elicited by the practice. Acem Meditation is often used as a tool in stress management, and Acem also arranges [...]

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