Skillful Meditation Project
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 Audio
Jason Siff in Residence at the Albuquerque Vipassana Sangha
These are the first two Dharma talks given while Jason Siff was the resident teacher at the Albuquerque Vispassana Sangha in New Mexico in the Spring of 2008. Audio
Jason Siff and Stephen Batchelor in Dialog
This audio recording of their Dharma Talk focuses on their common areas of inquiry around the conceptual and the experiential. It was held at the Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico on November 6th, 2007. Audio
New Articles
Aspects of Receptivity
This article explores the nature of receptivity, how we develop and work with it in sitting practice and the way in which it helps to develop our tolerance of difficult emotional states. Article
The Significance of Method in Meditation Practice
This article was originally published in the March – May 2008 edition of the Sydney Insight Meditators Newsletter. Jason Siff looks at different methods used in meditation, what effect they have on our practice, and then presents Recollective Awareness as a flexible method of meditation practice, outlining its unique aspects. Article
Redesigned Skillful Meditation Website
