Setting Up a Practice on Buddhist Resources

Meditation Posture: A Practical Guide

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:42:29 +0200

Posture is the part of meditation instruction most often skipped and most often the actual problem. A practitioner who cannot sit comfortably for twenty minutes will spend those twenty minutes managing discomfort, and will reasonably conclude that meditation is not for them.

Walking Meditation

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:43:20 +0200

Walking meditation is the most underused practice available to modern lay practitioners. In traditional retreat schedules it occupies roughly half the formal practice time, alternating hour by hour with sitting. Most people who meditate at home do none of it.

Going on Retreat: What to Expect

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:44:21 +0200

At some point a daily practice runs into its own limits. Twenty minutes a morning, surrounded by a working life, produces something real and does not produce what several days of continuous practice produces. The traditions assume periods of concentrated practice, and the modern retreat centre is the institution that supplies them to laypeople.