Meditation

Axia College Material

Appendix A

Meditation Worksheet

Directions: Locate two resources on the Internet that explain meditation techniques. Copy and paste the Web address into the top of the matrix. After reviewing the Web site, provide a brief summary for each source. Below your summary, list two interesting facts you learned from each site. Try the techniques you located in your Internet search. Provide a brief description of what happened in your experience.

Be sure to answer the two questions below the matrix also.

|Web Address (URL): |http://www.mro.org/zmm/teachings/meditation.php |http://www.dhamma.org/en/vipassana.shtml |

| |Zen or Zazen is a simple form of meditation. It has been one of lifes |Vipassana is a technique that aims for total eradication of mental impurities. It was |

| |things that has been passed on for many of generations. When in zazen, it |rediscovered more than 2500 years ago. It helps form a connection between the body and |

| |is important to keep a straight back to allow the diaphragm to work |soul. This is a technique that is taught in a ten-day course where participants follow a |

| |cooperatively. |code of discipline that consist of basics of the method, practice sufficiently to |

|Summary of resource: | |experience the full effect. |

| |Zen meditation has spread from India to China, to Japan, to other parts of|Vipassana means to see things as they really are. |

| |Asia, and then finally to the West...