Questions around the categorisation of a meditation practice. Typical questions will describe a meditation and ask how it fits into a broader schema or school of Buddhism.
Questions tagged [meditation-classification]
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Which Buddhist Meditation is comparable to Transcendental Meditation?
A friend of mine was practicing zazen for many years. They started to get discourage with their practice and started to explore transcendental mediation. Now, they claim their progress with TM is far better in a matter of weeks when compared to…
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Is the skeleton meditation of Buddhist origin?
I came across a skeleton meditation mentioned in this answer on this site, and I was interested because it supposedly grants interesting special abilities.
Googling it, I just found pages about something called white skeleton meditation, which I…
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Practice taxonomy
I know there are a lot of practices in many different traditions. Can you redirect me to some source where different types of practice are somewhat classified? I'm not clear how this could be done, but maybe something in the lines of this book?
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