One's experience of meditation defines what meditation is.
- Jason Siff

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 Fiction 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

New Audio

Jason Siff and William Waldron Workshop

Over the weekend of November 22nd and 23rd, 2008, the Skillful Meditation Project sponsored a weekend workshop in Albuquerque, New Mexico featuring Jason Siff and William Waldron discussing Buddhist theories of consciousness. William Waldron teaches at Middlebury College with a specialty in the South Asian religious traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism, Tibetan religion and history, and comparative psychologies and philosophies of mind. His written works focus on the Yogacara school of Indian Buddhism and its dialogue with modern thought. He is the author most recently of “The Buddhist Unconscious: The alaya-vijnana in the context of Indian Buddhist thought.” We have included two talks that were given on Sunday, November 23rd.To listen or download these talks...