Zen Meditation Instruction (How to Meditate)
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- Zen Meditation Instruction from Yokoji Zen Mountain Center (www.zmc.org), a Zen Buddhist Training Center located in the Southern California mountains. Instruction is given on how to sit zazen (seated meditation) in various positions - full lotus, cross legged, using a chair; also tips on breathing and how to go in to and out of meditation periods.
10 years old and this is still the clearest most to the point video I've found on this
Can confirm. Lol
This is a classic. Great presentation of the tradition!
It's perfect
Good luck on your journey.
I agree 🙏🏻
Listening to this video is like a meditation. Zero minutes wasted.
That's not how zazen works.
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This will immensely change your life, if you are a novice to Zazen. Excellent video.
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I've sat through so many sub par meditation instruction videos looking for something I can recommend to people. This is beautiful. Everything a beginning meditator needs to know and nothing they don't in under 8 minutes. Thank you.
im just trying to be grateful for everything that ive benefitted from in my life, theres too much good to complain. Everything is divine. this has been the best day of my life
This practice changed my life. I can't thank you enough.
I live in a household that would "Mock" these sort of things. So its very hard to keep my head clear. But some day I wish for Zen to be apart of my everyday life. Thanks for this video it realy helped with my posture when meditating
Dj Otsirave don't let ANYTHING stop you from your meditation!! I've been mocked since high school for meditation (30 Years ago!!) but I knew I was on to something important and good...where are those ""mockers" now?? fat and miserable!!! while I have continued my practices and have LOADS of energy and insights...just do your meditation fellow practicioner and let others mock...GOOD LUCK
:) Yeah I've been a little more open. But I feel I need more time. But thanks. I also wish to lean Tai-Chi
Now
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I have been meditating for 30 years and this video is bullshit. There is nothing mystical or sacred about meditating. Meditation is simply slowing down the thoughts which brings peace. Why do people insist on making something so helpful into something sacred? It's stupid.
they just mock themself for being ignorance, i was shy to initiate meditating in my home but ill just do it daily and later its just like an another usual day. nothing special.
The idea of zen meditation is to not think about anything but focus on breathing well not really focus on that but it's just to help you clear your mind and relieve stress because you lose the thought that was stressing you out. It's weird but once you master it you'll have a better focus and understanding of things in the world
Offtopic here but beautiful woodworking in the background and an amazing wooden statue on the shelf, a calming and peaceful view outside with a clean and homey environment inside. Would love to meditate in such a place!
For the liberation of all sentient beings
all beings
Buddhist Meditation is very important for human beings . It helps us to control our mind so I think, everyone should practies meditation.
Nice, no fluff, no fancy music. Just the basic instruction.
@bluefishbrad: Your mind naturally thinks, that is its function. Perhaps you would be able to stop it if you really tried, but this isn't the purpose of meditation. When thoughts arise, notice them, but don't follow them. Each time, just go back to the sensation or counting of the breath. The breath is the anchor to which to can always go back when you notice you have gotten caught up in thoughts. While meditating, put thought on one side, over and over, as each thought arises. See what remains.
How long do you recommend to meditate each day?I have started meditating a few days ago,and I think it’s best that if a have a stable time to do it ,it will help me survive school.
You can, and many people benefit from doing so. It's a matter of choice and experimenting with what helps you. Consider that with any technique, there is also a limiting factor inherent in it. Zazen is different than many other meditations in that it is the direct experience of our life as it is, not dependent on circumstances or cultivated environments.
I have just started reading about Zen and I've started meditating, specifically zazen and this has been very helpful. Thank you
Absolutely one of the best instructional meditation videos I have ever seen.
I'm lucky to be able to sit in seiza for fairly long periods. I think it's the most symmetrical position. After 6 years of zen, my legs still go numb, however. Getting up is difficult, but no permanent harm done.
I loved staying at the center. Thanks for such a deep experience. Meditation was kicked up a notch after that retreat.
Nice! I also like meditation. 💚❤️
With my meditating I have personally appreciated watching lots of Spiritual Master Sri Avinash lately. #SriAvinashMeditation
I have found Sri Avinash's Satsangs very beautiful and helpful to my life. 🤲
😂 I am practicing zen for the last 20 years or so. Now I was ready to check out the meditation included in it.
The first video in Google brought here, to a guy that gives the vibe of a technician and explain that seating in lotus will be fine, or half a lotus or... you know what... just sit. And the eyes... just eyes... and breathing... just breathing.
I was laughing a few times while watching the whole video - because I felt I have found the right video.
O zen... you always look the same but with different strokes 😂
Thank you! Excellent presentation, such a clear explanation of sitting.
My day get a new start whit you as master teaching the way to zazen.
Thank you.
I love how simple this was. Not just the instruction but the meditation itself. Thank you for including posture for sitting in a chair, sitting or kneeling on the floor was one thing that stop me from even trying. With that, I was able to follow along the rest of the video from my computer chair, positing and arranding myself in such a way that was natural and better posture. By the end of this video I was meditating using your counts! Thank you!
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There’s nothing to achieve here. Ordinary heart is the way ❤
Thank you for the advice about counting on the exhale and how to hold the eyes. Your video is very well done and soothing.
This is very good. I enjoy meditating outdoors. I think getting a fixed spot indoors with "a shrine" might be a good motivation to meditate indoors. I also love the sound of those meditation bowls.
@BGlogowski: part 2 of 2: However, we tend to be "thought addicts", relying on the logical mind to interpret an illogical experience. In practical terms when sitting zazen and thinking occurs, resist the urge to follow the thought trail and construct a story. This separates us from the experience of our environment and strengthens the illusion of a separate defined self. Rather experience the thought, do not add to it, and return attention to your current practice, such as counting the breath.
Thank you ,clear and precise.🙏
Thanks for the video. Loved to practice Zazen for the better life. ❤
Greetings from Komodo Island.
I am returning to zazen after ten years of not doing meditation. I meditated ten years daily and experienced the best ten years in my adult life. Life, stress and anxiety caught up to me and I gave up all my practices. Ten years later I am suffering addictions, anxiety and health issues. It is time to clean up my life again and return to Zazen. 🙏☸️☯️ I am a redhead and us redheads are not limber. Maybe someday I can get half lotus if I’m lucky.
Nice introduction to Zazen. Thanks for taking the time to create the video.
Practical and covered all of my questions. Thanks!
Thank you for this wonderfully clear and concise video. Brilliant! 🙏🧘🏻♂️ 🙏
Love this video. Thank you for sharing!
In "gassho" thank you for posting this video full of good simple tips to use during practice.
Thanks a lot for the video. You were very clear and concise. Thanks!
Love it Zen Scouser!
Thank you very much Master it was really instructional and helpful for me and everyone.
Awesome job.❤
Thank you sir for wonderful information 🙏
You people are a godsend.
This is a wonderful video. It was clear and easy. Thank you.
Thank you 🙏💕
Thank you! This is very helpful.
Thank you so much for this very useful video.
Simple, clear and good enough to do Zen meditation, thanks for your video.
Beautiful illustration simple to practice
Thank-you, this is great!
thank you for your instruction!!! really helpful
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Great video! Thanks!
Thank you so much
Love your clear explanation.! Thanks
Thanks for helping
Buddhist practice is about ending suffering, so just get comfortable and observe your mind and body as one...
Great video!
Great instructional video. Thank you very much. Liked and suscribed! Can´t wait to put in practice all that I´ve learned here. Thank you!
awesome video xx💓
Thank you.
Well made video, thank you
Love the video thAnks
Really happy this is out there for people to view. Keep it up.
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Meditation is not something we do, meditation is what we are.
i like this video you are very precise!
Thank you
wise to meditate often
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Very helpful video Thankyou
Good one, thanks !
Thank you for explaining this basics. I go in zazen now.
Thank you for the video, it has been really helpful to remember the basics after a long period without meditating. I´m sure your courses are wonderful.
She is so still i thought its an image
Excellent... looking forward to watch more, namaste!!
@Adam Ski Impressive. You managed to insult a person online. Kudos to you!
I'm 32 and starting to see the value of relaxed meditation, i like to see myself as warrior whom all lives with tension (no catarsis) while doing what they see right. In New Age i'm called Lightworker. I've always repeatedly tried to meditate, with the tension of desire. Life is suffering because we don't see there is no positivity, there is just emptiness, neither negativity. As warrior i chose the negative camp, and fought fiercly defensively (as Believer i'm intelligently defensive and not pacifist, neither agressive) with the whole universe backing me up, because defensive i am, it's called defence department not offence department. I am in position (and although i've lost my strength in the process) to claim divinity with authority because what I say is the law. This is not wishful thinking. And yeah, maybe i'm a Deva (i've usually called myself Ashura) or actually a Bodhisatva of Zen destinied to die because of perfection. And i have nearly died many times, recently by jumping from a car in full speed, defensively. Except i survived, so theoretically i'm as Amitaba. But i won't release my arrow. My mother technically expects me to be a monk, although in Islam it is forbidden to not get married (i'm muslim). Will I be another Buddha who comes and goes? Not leaving anything behind?
@Forever Spring I don't agree. But I'll die for your Right to say what you mean. I Pray Allah grants me a Wife or more (likely not group sex) and makes me a Leader. I've meditated and done alot and Witnessed No Thing ... I am not saying I SAW No Thing, but that there is No Thing (I'm Half-God like Inuyasha) except Allah, and what he gives me and not. I Love you.
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Very helpful.
@timcondi Funny you should ask that... check back in the first week of November and we'll have (hopefully) a few new videos posted, one of which will approach that question.
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I like that. Thanks.
This is a greatly done and elaborate, yet straight to the point video. I just wish they talked about how to sit on Seiza Benches. Like for example I went to a meditation center. They instructed me to hang my feet off of the Zabuton. Which really helps when using some Seiza benches. Seeing that they can be made a couple of different ways. I am always looking for more opinions and out looks. So maybe I would of learned something that I didn't know or think of. Regardless, great video if you intend on using a Zafu! Peace be upon you everyone!
@BGlogowski: part 1 of 2: That's a very pertinent question, perhaps the trickiest to answer and very subtle to practice. In zazen we do not conjure up things to think about, and neither do we attempt to cut off thinking. The practice is to see what is here and experience our life in it's totality. This includes all the senses and thinking. Thoughts are the secretions of the mind. Like any other organ it serves a vital purpose.
thankyou for a pleasent example..marc
Thank you for this amazing vid. Much appreciated. Thank you for your time and energy. Peace
what about if you are 'stuck' on ocd thoughts? is the instruction to notice the thoughts? another problem that arises is that there is the idea that the thought is very important. excellent video, very well shot and has very clear instructions
Very good. Thanks.
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Historically, the Soto school and Rinzai school are two branches of Chinese Zen or Cha'an, the Soto school founded by Masters Sozan and Tozan and the Rinzai school founded by Master Rinzai. There are many more similarities than differences between the two branches. Here at Yokoji we are a Soto temple but the founder, Maezumi Roshi received dharma transmission in both Soto and Rinzai lineages, so we incorporate elements of both.
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Sigh...I started trying full lotus, just the sitting alone, nothing about meditation yet, about 20+ years ago. And that thing alone I still am not able to do it now. But I wont give up even Im 60 now. There are warm-ups to do to open up your hip joints, knee joints... that Im trying now, hopefully that'll help.
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Hi! When do we exhale through the mouth! Because some instructors have taught to breath out through the mouth. Thank you!
I have scoliosis. I need to have something to support my back. One of the turnoffs of standard meditation, as I believed it, was the idea of sitting with my back and supported for any extended period of time. It's just too painful.
Well i evaporate it throughout the whole day and stop 2/1,5 hours before i go to sleep (dont like to go to bed while under influence plus i still sleep better), I try to keep it at a maximum of one day per two weeks.
Is counting the breath final step of zazen?
In Japanese Zen mostly not much is said about historical and spiritual surroundings of zazen or sitting meditation. Was wondering if this was not similar as if we spoke in merely technical terms about the perfect and correct posture during a lets say Catholic ritual. Would like to wish good luck for all the activities of the Zen Center.
Is it essential to keep your eyes half closed? I usually keep them completely closed. Thank you!
Hello thank you for the instructions! 🙏 Are there any Zen meditation learning centres in India ?
This is my question also. I think there is one in South India but they don't teach. Then, you have monasteries in Ladakh, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh.
What is the main differences between rinzai and soto?
halo master .! during in sitting posture mind is not concentrate.i cannot attain at the thoughtless stage.master yokoji pl guide me.
Good vid