GMM News Issue 257 Dec 2010 & Jan 2011
The newsletter presents Chan meditation practices, including walking, running, and sitting meditation, and explains how these methods are used to cultivate mindfulness and insight. It also discusses the concept of electrotherapy, describing it as a form of meditation that emits a light of wisdom to detoxify the air.
Additional sections explore Buddhist philosophical ideas such as the emptiness of annihilation and the emptiness of analyzed dharmas, offering commentary on how false thoughts arise and how true emptiness can be realized through disciplined practice.
Walking meditation is a brisk‑paced practice that is part of the Chan hall program, intended to help cultivators focus the mind while moving.
Electrotherapy refers to sitting meditation that emits a light of wisdom, which the text says can detoxify the air.