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Zen Meditation for Beginners: A Practical Guide to Inner Calm

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By Bonnie Myotai Treace — 2025

Beginning Zen meditation is a step into the unknown―let Zen Meditation for Beginners be your guide. This simple, straightforward handbook shows you how to embrace the beauty and clarity of the present moment―helping you destress and find balance at home, at work, or wherever you are. See more...

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Meditation Is Ridiculously, Amazingly Simple

If you approach your practice as a path of love, the rhythms of life will teach you moment by moment how to proceed. Each little discovery about what breathing feels like will give you more access to your inner life and the secret power of recovery built into your body.

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Here’s How a Month of Zen Meditation Changed My Life

The Buddhist meditation practice is over 1,500 years old, but modern science says it has very real mental and physical health benefits.

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Zen Buddhism

An introduction to Zen, a form of Buddhism that emphasizes seeking one's own Buddha nature through meditation.

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Zen Meditation Instruction (How to Meditate)

Zen Meditation Instruction from Yokoji Zen Mountain Center, a Zen Buddhist Training Center located in the Southern California mountains.

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THE ZEN MIND - An Introduction by Empty Mind Films

This is a clip from The Zen Mind documentary, filmed in Japan. It serves as a nice overview of zen - a topic very few people can fully understand.

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Mindfulnyu Founder Refuses to Leave the Present

Is there a difference between living and being truly alive? For Yael Shy, senior director of Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life, the answer lies in meditation.

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Take Five

At the core of the Zen Buddhist tradition is a formal practice called zazen, which is the name for Zen meditation or sitting Zen.

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Sensei José Shinzan Palma: How Your Practice Can Heal the World

Sensei José Shinzan Palma explains how our meditation practice can help us change the world.

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Not Knowing Is the Most Intimate

In this satsang, we explore the Zen teaching “not knowing is the most intimate” in light of our current situation. As always, the meeting features guided meditation, talk, and dialogue.

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What Is the Best Type of Meditation?

Meditation offers time for relaxation and heightened awareness in a stressful world where our senses are often dulled. Research suggests that meditation has the potential for more than just temporary stress relief.

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