Do You Practice Sitting Meditation?

Yes!

The UCB Program seeks to change your condition through the use of many techniques.

Please see Sit and Spin and make sure to check for dates in Upcoming Events on the sidebar.

You will find that the aims of our 'activist' training are quite similar to those of seated 'quietist' meditation. Seated meditation compliments moving meditation and vice versa.

If your primary training is in seated meditation, you will find our program to enhance your progress. For that matter, anyone from any martial art, movement background or meditative discipline is welcome.

It is said that DaMo taught the Buddhist monks a series of exercises because their single-minded sitting was ruining their bodies. So, in our approach, activist and quietist practices are balanced.

Following I Liq Chuan philosophy we encourage students to practice mindfulness at all times in all activities.

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Kalama Sutta (Kalama Sutra)

Do not simply believe what you hear just because you have heard it for a long time.
Do no follow tradition blindly merely because it has been practiced that way for many generations.
Do not be quick to listen to rumors.
Do not confirm anything just because it agrees with your scriptures.
Do not foolishly make assumptions.
Do not abruptly draw conclusions by what you see and hear.
Do not be fooled by outward appearances.
Do not hold on tightly to any view or idea just because you are comfortable with it.
Do not accept as fact anything that you yourself find to be illogical.
Do not be convinced of anything out of respect and deference to your spiritual teachers.

You should go beyond opinion and belief. You can rightly reject anything which when accepted, practiced and perfected leads to more aversion, more craving and more delusion. They are not beneficial and are to be avoided. Conversely, you can rightly accept anything which when accepted and practiced leads to unconditional love, contentment and wisdom. These things allow you time and space to develop a happy and peaceful mind. This should be your criteria on what is and what is not the truth; on what should be and what should not be the spiritual practice.