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Wiseflow.org publishes content on topics that enlighten with precision, promoting the notion of being yourself in the most absolute sense possible through inquiring the very core assumptions of self. I spent extensive time researching meditation techniques and the science behind its benefits. I found Zen Mediation taught by Grand Master Wei Chueh and what’s known as the state of Samadhi to be related with what’s discovered as the Flow state coined by a Professor of Psychology named Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Connecting these teachings, I put together a meditation series for guiding the listener to evoke the Flow state of mind using Zen Meditation techniques. The purpose is to develop a means for the practitioner to evoke Flow wherever they go, even beyond sitting meditation.
The “Evoking Flow” series is the first edition of the Core Zen Practices, which is a prerequisite to future series. This series is combined with what’s been taught and experienced from several Zen Masters. I then introduce new methodologies for our most recent generations and for those we connect with.
I hope you enjoy the series.
– Jason Weber, Author of Evoking Flow
IMPORTANT: Building the right meditation practice is one part of consistently evoking a flow state. It is just as important to build the right understanding. In order to take your meditation practice deeper and consistently evoke flow, learn the following sutra and make an attempt to fully understand it.
The Heart of Prajna Paramita Sutra
Translated by the Chung Tai Translation Committee June 2002 from the Chinese translation by Tripitaka Master Xuan Zang, 7th Century
Bodhizatva Avalokiteshvara
While deeply immersed in prajna paramita
Clearly perceived the empty nature of the five skandhas,
And transcended all suffering.
Shariputra! Form is not different from emptiness,
Emptiness is not different from form.
Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.
So it is with feeling, conception, volition, and consciousness.
Shariputra! All dharmas are empty in character;
Neither arising nor ceasing,
Neither impure nor pure,
Neither increasing nor decreasing.
Therefore, in emptiness, there is no form;
There is no feeling, conception, volition, or consciousness;
No eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, or mind;
No form, sound, smell, taste, touch, or dharmas;
No realm of vision, and so forth,
Up to no realm of mind-consciousness;
No ignorance or ending of ignorance, and so forth,
Up to no aging and death or ending of aging and death.
There is no suffering, no cause, no extinction, no path.
There is no wisdom and no attainment.
There is nothing to be attained.
By way of prajna paramita,
The bodhisattva’s mind is free from hindrances.
With no hindrances, there is no fear;
Freed from all distortion and delusion,
Ultimate nirvana is reached.
By way of prajna paramita,
Buddhas of the past, present, and future
Attain anuttara-samyak-sambodhi.
Therefor, prajna paramita
Is the great powerful mantra,
The great enlightening mantra,
The supreme and peerless mantra.
It can remove all suffering.
This is the truth beyond all doubt.
And the prajna paramita mantra is spoken thus:
Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha.
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