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BOE Irvine Zen Meditation

Irvine Zen Meditation is the Irvine chapter of Buddhaland On Earth, a national, non-profit organization with headquarter in Torrance, California.

We teach zen meditation in a supportive environment to help you find inner peace.

10/13/2024

One day retreat allows us to purify, recharge and connect with one another in a powerful setting where collectively we help ourselves and others advance in our spiritual journey.

10/03/2024

So true!

08/15/2024

Love seeing transformation of new practitioners through our practice!!

Welcome to Buddhaland on Earth's YouTube Channel! 🌟 We are a non-profit organization dedicated to sharing teachings from the 85th Zen Patriarch Wu Chueh Mia...

08/07/2024

Our sister center in the Bay Area actively engaged with the public to share the wonderful benefits of meditation!!

07/26/2024

One of our sister centers in Taiwan hosts English classes. Let's listen to one of the practitioners's experience learning meditation.

07/25/2024

Wonderful sharing from a new practitioner, “it is everything I wanted!”

Welcome to Buddhaland on Earth's YouTube Channel! 🌟 We are a non-profit organization dedicated to sharing teachings from the 85th Zen Patriarch Wu Chueh Mia...

07/20/2024

Our sister center in Fullerton continues to spread the joy of meditation at the local library ❤️🙏

06/24/2024

06/23/2024

“Most traditional Chinese calligraphers live a long life”, shared our center’s instructor Miaolian.

Like a turtle that enjoys longevity through slow movements and deep breaths, Chinese calligraphy is an art form that requires the full concentration of the artist coupled with slow, steady, and even breaths to avoid the “choppiness” of the strokes.

Hence, a person’s depth of breath, focus, and posture can be traced in the final brush strokes he/she makes on the paper.

Thought it seems simple in our tracing and filling in of the ancient Oracle writing of numbers 1-6, we enjoyed the challenge of learning something new and see where we can improve next time 😊🙏

06/16/2024

Zen is in everything we do as our inner spiritual beings live our human existence.

Through the ancient art of tea drinking coupled with zen energy, we introduce breathing, focus, and a sense of gratitude, in every sip of nourishing aged old white tea we take. 🙏

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18006 Sky Park Circle Suite 100
Irvine, CA
92614

Telephone

+19493293895

Website

https://irvinezenmeditation.org/

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The Heart Chan Practice

Seated Meditation

Seated meditation is the foundation of the practice of Heart Chan. Many people today explore meditation practice to seek peace of mind, reduction of the stress in our lives, or to improve a health issue. For others, Chan represents opportunities to deepen and clarify our spirituality, upon whatever path our heart takes us.

Heart Chan represents an unbroken line of teachings and teachers, traced back over 1500 years at Shaolin temple in China, where Master Bodhidharma, an enlightened Indian monk traveling all the way from India to central China to spread the teachings of Chan, integrated and harmonized it with various local practices that led generations of practitioners to clarity, truth, fulfillment, and inner peace.

This unbroken line of spiritual teaching was eventually passed to the Shifu of our generation, the 85th Patriarch of Chan, Wujue Miaotian, who dedicated his entire life to enable us to also be able to walk the path towards enlightenment. Through sitting meditation, we can transcend the limitations of our body, our conscious and subconscious mind, and to become in sync with our heart and uncover the most natural expressions of compassion and joy in each and every moment of our lives.

Body Practice

There is deep wisdom within our physical self, if we can practice to quiet the distraction and feel and listen to the lessons it seeks to share. At our centers and groups, we share ancient, refined body practices that traditionally complement the Chan seated meditation. After all, most of our life is spent in motion, not seated practice, and body is the vehicle of that motion.

Our teachers are proficient in sharing the Ba Duan Jin Qigong movements for self maintenance of health and wellness. These eight gentle movements invigorate the organs and help enhancing the alignment and functions of the muscular/skeletal systems to reinforce, sustain, and integrate the clarity of the seated meditation practice and make our body’s wisdom accessible in our daily lives.

In addition, we offer teaching and practice in several forms of traditional Tai Chi. Focusing the mind solely on the movements of the form helps bringing about a state of mental calm and clarity in motion. Besides general health benefits and stress mitigation, many find Tai Chi training brings their seated Chan practice “to life” in a practical, tangible sense.

“Posture and movement in daily life can easily affect the posture and quality of seated meditation.” – Chan Master Wu Jue Miao Tian

Qigong and Taichi practice can allow us to feel and correct subtle hindrances in our posture and movement that can make significant improvements in our daily life as well as our meditation practice. They go seamlessly hand in hand.

Transitional Practices

It can be a big stretch to take the calm and peaceful, centered state of seated Chan meditation or the formal movements of Taichi/Qigong and directly translate this into our daily lives of work, kids, computers, commutes, relationships, etc…

Recognizing this in our own lives, relationships and careers, we have incorporated several classes and workshops designed for creating the bridge from the formal practice to practical application.

“Chan meditation develops a focused mind that enables more effective study, better relationships with family and coworkers, induces creativity, inspires more effective management of ourselves, our resources and skills…” Wu Jue Miao Tian , Shifu

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