Skillful Meditation Project
One's experience of meditation defines what meditation is -
The Skillful Meditation Project offers an approach to Buddhist Meditation based on what people actually experience when they meditate. We call this approach Recollective Awareness Meditation, as it involves recollecting what happens in one’s meditation sittings. One can meditate in any manner one chooses in this approach or use the basic instructions suggested for beginning meditation students. As you explore this website you might find it useful to begin with the Meditation page. Here you will find articles and short audio clips on an unstructured approach to meditation, ways of recollecting one's sitting, as well as some background on this approach and how it was developed.
New Novel by Jason Siff
Seeking Nibbana in Sri Lanka
Seeking Nibbana in Sri Lanka is a novel about an American Buddhist monk going to a remote forest hermitage to study under a meditation master, who is reputed to be fully enlightened. What begins as an idealistic search for nibbana turns into a realistic portrayal of life at a forest hermitage and the inner experience of meditation. The meditation master is also engaged in his own pursuit of nibbana, though his path is one of looking deeply into Buddhist teachings and questioning them thoroughly.
Seeking Nibbana in Sri Lanka (formerly titled "Anupassana") by Jason Siff is published by Vajra Publications in Nepal. You may read excerpts and get information on ordering this book at www.seekingnibbana.com
