The Seoul International Meditation Expo, which presents the value and future vision of meditation hosted by Dongguk University's Buddhist Academy, was held from Oct. 13th-15th. The Seoul International Meditation Expo, which marks its fourth anniversary this year, aims to consider the practice of daily life, focusing on aspects of Buddhist teaching and practice, which are the basis of various modern meditations, under the slogan "Meditation, Invitation to Daily Life." In addition, the core goal is to develop K-meditation cultural content programs based on Buddhist traditional meditation for daily life, popularization, and globalization of meditation.
In particular, this year, the area of experience was greatly emphasized, and various experiences such as the intensive performance of Ganhwaseon, the performance of Mungwanmu, traditional meditation, and applied meditation were held. In particular, the World Meditation Experience Booth will be held at Dongguk University's Paljeongdo on Oct. 20-22, showing the influence of meditation across languages and regions.
On October 13th, a meditation conference on the theme of "Meditation and Dharma," where meditation is emerging as the best alternative to alleviate various problems in modern society, experts from home and abroad participated to re-examine the Buddhist perspective and suggest the right direction for meditation. On the second day, the 14th, "Meditation and Daily Performance" was the theme, and it focused on ways to apply and practice the contents of "Darma" to individual lives in modern times. On the 15th, the last day, a meditation talk was held at a conference on the theme of Meditation and Industry to present the direction of industrial development of meditation and to present the future and vision of meditation.
In this regard, more information can be found on the website of the Seoul International Meditation Expo. https://mind.dongguk.edu/front/filebox/media_list.p