[Zen] Buddhist meditation practices

[ED]

Theravada <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Theravada>  Buddhist meditation
practices:

    * Anapanasati <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Anapanasati>  - focusing
on the breath
    * Metta <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Metta>  - cultivation of
compassion and loving-kindness
    * Kammaá¹­á¹­hâna
<http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Kamma%E1%B9%AD%E1%B9%ADh%C4%81na>
    * Samatha <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Samatha>  - calm abiding
    * Vipassana <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Vipassana>  - insight
    * Mahasati Meditation
<http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Mahasati_Meditation>

Zen <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Zen>  Buddhist meditation practices:

    * Shikantaza <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Shikantaza>  - just
sitting
    * Zazen <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Zazen>
    * Koan <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Koan>

Vajrayana <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Vajrayana>  and Tibetan Buddhism
<http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Tibetan_Buddhism>  meditation practices:

    * Tantra techniques
<http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Tantra_techniques_(Vajrayana)>
    * Ngondro <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Ngondro>  - preliminary
practices
    * Tonglen <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Tonglen>  - giving and
receiving
    * Phowa <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Phowa>  - transference of
consciousness at the time of death
    * Chöd <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Ch%C3%B6d>  - cutting through
fear by confronting it
    * Mahamudra <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Mahamudra>  - the Kagyu
version of 'entering the all-pervading Dharmadatu', the 'nondual state',
or the 'absorption state'
    * Dzogchen <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Dzogchen>  - the natural
state, the Nyingma version of Mahamudra
<http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Mahamudra>
    * The Four Immeasurables
<http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/The_Four_Immeasurables> , Metta
<http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Metta>
    * Tantra <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Tantra>

Related Buddhist practices:

    * Mindfulness <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Mindfulness>  - awareness
in the present moment
    * Mindfulness (psychology)
<http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Mindfulness_(psychology)>  - Western
applications of Buddhist ideas
    * Satipatthana <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Satipatthana>
    * chanting <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Buddhist_chant>  and mantra
<http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Mantra>

Proper floor-sitting postures and supports while meditating:

    * Floor sitting: cross-legged
<http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Sitting#Cross-legged>  (full lotus
<http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Lotus_position> , half lotus, Burmese) or
seiza <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Seiza>
    * Cushions: zafu <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Zafu> , zabuton
<http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Zabuton>

Traditional Buddhist texts <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Buddhist_texts>
on meditation:

    * Anapanasati Sutta <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Anapanasati_Sutta>
    * Satipatthana Sutta
<http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Satipatthana_Sutta>
    * Visuddhimagga <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Visuddhimagga>

Traditional preliminary practices to Buddhist meditation:

    * prostrations <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Prostration_(Buddhism)> 
(also see Ngondro <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Ngondro> )
    * refuge <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Refuge_(Buddhism)>  in the
Triple Gem <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Triple_Gem>
    * Five Precepts <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Five_Precepts>

Analog in Vedas:

    * Paramatma <http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Paramatma>
    * Ksirodakasayi Vishnu
<http://groups.yahoo.com/wiki/Ksirodakasayi_Vishnu>


Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_meditation
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_meditation>