Introducing Venerable Thich Thong Triet and the tenets of the Sunyata Meditation school.
Venerable Thich Thong Triet is the founder of the Sunyata Meditation school on 04/01/1995. From the Sunyata Meditation Centre in Riverside, California he, together with the Sunyata Sangha, travelled everywhere to disseminate the dhamma, from Oregon to Houston (Texas), from Southern and Northern California (California) to Toronto (Canada), Stuttgart ( Germany), Paris, Toulouse (France), Sydney (Australia) from 1995 to today in 2010.
Thanks to his time in spiritual retreat over 14 years, he has realized that the key to a successful meditation practice is to “Stop the verbal chattering in the mind”after 7 years of austere focused practice followed by a period of consolidation of his samādhi experience
Arriving in the USA in 1993, he has taught meditation classes to meditation students around the world from 1995 to today in 2010. The meditation method that he teaches is based on the Buddha’s teachings, with the 4 ways of practice: anupassanā, samatha, samādhi, and paññā. It helps students to allieviate their psychosomatic illnesses, bring their body and mind in harmony, as well as bringing into harmony with their families, communities and society. The Sunyate meditation method guides students on the path to spiritual awakening, changing life’s perspectives and gradually developing spiritual wisdom.
Venerable Thích Thông Triệt preconises incorporating meditation into our daily life. This is why he has used neuroscience (and the human brain) to demonstrate the students’ progress by recording the students’ brain waves using an EEG machine while they practice meditation. Furthermore, since the 90s he had dreamed of using science to prove that al his teaching is closely related to mechanisms in the brain. He wanted to prove the correlation between the Buddha’s meditation practice with the cerebral cortex, the brain stem, the language path in the brain, the hypothalamus area, the autonomic nervous system and biochemical secreted in the human body.
When the right causal conditions were met, in 2007 Venerable Thích Thông Triệt met Dr. Michael ERB while he was conducting courses in Germany (Stuttgart). He was able to make use of the f-MRI equipment at the University of Tuebingen to capture images of brain areas associated with ultimate seeing, ultimate hearing, ultimate touch, and then in 2008, with ultimate cognition and the language path, to finally in January 2010 confirm with certainty the areas of the brain associated with the Buddhist samādhi stages.
Consequently, Venerable Thich Thong Triet was satisfied with the final results of the brain imaging that occurred in January 2010, which vindicated his efforts to prove the value of Buddhist meditation in everyday life and demonstrate that Buddhist meditation is an experimental spiritual science.
(Quoted from the Sunyata Meditation Magazine No. 5, Spring of 2010.)
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