given by Nomon Tim Burnett
January 18, 2010
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A 20-minute introduction to breath counting meditation done as a guided meditation to follow along with at home.
Working with the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program has increased my respect for these kinds of recordings to support home practice.
This one one might listen to two or three times while learning how to do sitting meditation with the breath counting focus. After that it would probably be too many words and a bit distracting. I intend to record a series of these with different levels of support.
Resident Priest Nomon Tim Burnett has been a student of Zoketsu Norman Fischer since 1987 when he was a resident at San Francisco Zen Center's Green Gulch Farm. After sitting practice periods at Green Gulch and Tassajara Zen Monastery, Tim helped found the Bellingham Zen Practice Group in 1991. Tim was ordained as a Zen Priest by Norman in June, 2000. Like his teacher, Tim is interested in the possibility of deep and complete practice by lay people.
A person of wide-ranging professional interests, Tim has been a botanist, elementary schoolteacher, writer, and computer programmer. In addition to his work at the Resident Priest of Red Cedar Zen Community, Tim works as a software developer.