Last Updated on February 18, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
If we practice Zen meditation or more generally speaking meditation, our goal is to find inner peace, or happiness. But if we practice Zen meditation with animals, we focus on an outer goal, which are animals. It is not contradictory? And has this not do do with happiness of the senses, which is something which is opposed to practicing meditation which means to detach from our senses?
The course practitioners report that Zen meditation is good for their well-being. If someone has enough money, he eventually could proof this in a clinical study. Then he could establish a new Zen practice with animals which is good for our well-being which is clinical proofen.
But still, will practicing Zen with animals have a break-trough as generally accepted meditation practice which is accepted and be taken over by all major meditation traditions?
Does offering Zen with animals at the Felsentor Retreat Center Rigi not raise questions about whether the center has a certain orientation for specific forms of meditation? And does it not raise questions if the center has no goal and no direction?
According to the definition of Sadhguru, meditation is to turn your mind inwardly. But meditation with animals is to turn our mind oudwardly towards the animals. Is therefore practicing Zen with animals not contradictory to practicing mediation?