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 Book by Jason Siff
Unlearning Meditation: What to do when the instructions get in the way
This book is published by Shambhala Publications and may be ordered from the Shambhala site or from Amazon.com (which currently has it for 33% off the list price).
Please visit www.unlearningmeditation.com to find out more about the book.
blog.unlearningmeditation.com
Click on the link above to go to Jason's blog. It has an introduction Jason wrote for the book that was replaced with the current introduction on meditator's guilt. The next blog entry, posted July 18th, follows with a discussion about meditator's guilt and the promise of meditation. The next blog entry is an essay on the tension found in doing meditation instructions, while the most recent one is on drifting off in meditation. Also, you can listen to Jason being interviewed by Carl Wolfson
on KPOJ in Portland, Oregon, on Monday, August 2nd.
Jason plans on adding new writings on meditation and edited versions of Dharma talks to this blog.
