Practicing Meditation
Living Skillfully January 11, 2022 Dale S. Wright 1 citation
In the early Mahayana Buddhist text Vimalakīrti Sūtra, meditation is presented as a practice of mindfulness integrated into everyday life, rather than requiring withdrawal from passions or emotional sensitivity. Bodhisattvas are encouraged to cultivate emotion as essential to life, while using calming and concentration practices to prevent it from becoming extreme suffering. Vimalakirti himself exemplifies and teaches insight meditation throughout the sutra as a means of self-transformation and a method for coping with life's inevitable suffering.