The Art of Stillness

MASTER THE MIND THROUGH SILENCE

Every meditation tradition in history found the same thing through a different door: under the noise of ordinary thinking, there is a deep stillness. This course maps that territory carefully. Across 14 lessons you will look at the neuroscience of what meditation does to the brain, the classic Vipassana method of S.N. Goenka, the Zen practices of shikantaza and koans, Transcendental Meditation and the science of mantras, the power of loving-kindness (metta), yoga nidra and its state between sleeping and waking, walking meditation, the Christian contemplative tradition, Sufi dhikr and whirling, Chinese qigong, sensory deprivation and float tanks, the default mode network and how it drives suffering, the deep absorption states of jhana and samadhi, and finally how to build a daily practice that holds. Stillness is not empty. It is the ground everything else stands on.

What You'll Learn