Guided Meditation with Rebecca Li

GUEST:
Dr. Rebecca Li, a Dharma heir in the lineage of Chan Master
Sheng Yen, is the founder and guiding teacher of Chan Dharma
Community. Her books include Allow Joy into Our Hearts: Chan
Practice in Uncertain Times and the upcoming book Illumination: A
Guide to the Buddhist Method of No-Method. She lives in New
Jersey with her husband.
Illumination: A Guide to the Buddhist Method of
No-Method, clarifies the practice of  "Silent
Illumination," (shikantaza in the Japanese tradition) and
outlines the potential "traps and snares" that are encountered on
the path to Awakening, as well as the potential remedies. Each
chapter illuminates mind habits that cause difficulty to earnest
meditation students, including: craving mode (striving for
enlightenment), aversion mode (trying to eliminate thoughts
completely), trance mode (cultivating a peaceful but foggy mind
state), Intellectualization mode (substituting concepts for
direct experience), quietism mode (dwelling in a cave of no
thoughts), and forgetting emptiness (belief in someplace to
arrive at and dwell in).

CONNECT with her writings, talks, guided meditation,
teaching, buy her book, & see the book tour schedule
at www.rebeccali.org