Meditative Lifestyle

This section is about integrating Meditation successfully into our fast-paced modern lifestyle. For the most part, all the articles and posts below it discuss traditional mind-training. We also cover the building of energy and virtue. Some of the content addresses the development of meditative skills directly. Learn about the stages of Meditation and prepare your practice properly. In summary, this section is great to support and fuel your daily practice.

This category is relevant for everybody who wishes to learn more about Meditation practice and its foundations. Building the foundation is certainly essential to the whole path. In addition to this we strive to make these articles accessible to those who are just starting out on the path of Meditation and Mindtraining. We keep them simple and hope that they may help you to become ready for the deeper stages of the path. Our lifestyle is essential if we want to dive deeper.

Painting of the Buddha teaching many monks. It's likely a mural in a Thai temple.

Receiving Meditation Teachings Properly

Have you ever wondered how to receive meditation teachings from your spiritual teacher properly? It often appears as if simply listening to teachings, attending classes or reading about a specific subject means that we have “received a teaching”. There’s a subconscious belief that the accumulation of one’s intellectual knowledge and superficial types of “understanding” is … Read more
Sun rays falling onto a forest path.

Life can be a Kind Teacher

When life doesn’t go according to your plan (and it does happen to everyone) you will surely feel some form of stress. You have probably been looking forward to something or you had hopes and now it doesn’t work out. In other words: Life has other plans. But life can be a kind teacher as … Read more
The faces of many golden Thai Buddha statues sitting in a long row.

Meditation and Yoga Retreats in Thailand

We recommend the following Meditation and Yoga Retreats in Thailand. The Retreats listed here are offering all kinds of experiences, from very strict to very relaxed, with or without Yoga, Qigong or Taiji. Are you looking for a relaxing health and wellness experience or rather for a hardcore temple retreat? Would you like to experience … Read more
Six people are meditating in a group together at Aoyon beach in Phuket, next to a cliff.

Basic Meditation Practice for Beginners

I’ve spent many years on the spiritual path being quite overwhelmed concerning the huge offer of meditation techniques, books, teachers and systems. For a long time I did not know where to start and what to do. I have received many teachings and studied a lot but I never came across a basic meditation practice … Read more
Mother holding her newborn baby-boy in a blanket, smiling at him.

When My Mother Held Me For The First Time

One of the most important questions I have ever asked myself seriously was this one: “When my mother held me for the first time… how might she have felt?” Please just hold on for a minute and allow your heart to be touched a little bit by this… just a little bit. Try to imagine … Read more
Plastic ugly zombie figure sitting on a bench for foto opportunities.

Why Are You So Ugly

“Tell me one thing… why are you so ugly?” – This question hit me hard while I was standing there having an innocent cup of coffee in the dining hall of the monastery. One of the monks who was standing close to me started this very odd conversation with me. He looked at me with … Read more
Ten people meditate together at Naiharn Beach in Phuket during a retreat.

Beginning Stages of Meditation

When we practice meditation it is often helpful to have a step-by-step outline of the path. Today I’m going to provide you with an outline of beginning meditation practice. It can help you with your sessions and hopefully inspires some decent progress. The steps I’m showing you below are onward leading to the deeper levels … Read more
A male hand with a watch is holding the steering wheel of a car.

Singing at the Traffic Light

Question:   “I try to practice daily since the retreat, so about a month (walking meditation, sitting, eating, awareness ..) and though there is definitely a global feeling of well being, I have sometime this feeling that it is getting a bit “obsessive/compulsive”. I was trying to let go control by meditation (which works!), but it … Read more
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It is like this

One of the most powerful sentences I have come across ever is as simple as it gets. My grandfather used to tell me that “it is just the way it is” or “it is like this”. We used to make fun of this type of saying when he was still alive – but now things … Read more
A dirt road leading through the desert toward a snowy mountain range.

Like Water in the Desert

The key to good practice of meditation and to getting deeper lies in practicing the right path consistently with proper attention. Once your teacher has shown you the right path and given you all the instructions you should start putting it into practice diligently. Practice everyday without worrying about the results – just keep creating … Read more

Enjoy the Meditative Lifestyle

Take your time reading through this extensive list of articles. There’s no rush if you want to build your Meditation practice with quality in mind. We recommend going one by one, as a daily dose of inspiration to guide you into a meditative lifestyle. It’s better to take your time and ask questions (you can always contact us if you like). We are always happy to help out. Therefore we suggest making use of our comment section that’s below each article.

The Structure of our Meditation Blog

We think that there’s a clear downside to filling the head with too much information. A great benefit of the meditative lifestyle is to slow down. This allows us to put quality before quantity and balances the aspects of information intake and digestion. We are listing all the articles on here and you can either slowly click through them or use the search feature right here to help you find the right kind of information that you are looking for.