This week we’re going to be exploring the place where insight meditation and social experience meet. The three meditations are going to involve adopting a particular stance. By stance I mean a particular attitude or orientation toward experience. We can also think of such stances as lenses we can put on through either intention or words to shift our relationship with what is happening. If you haven’t already experimented with them, being able to adopt stances will add a great new tool to your meditation tool box.
After having practised one such stance privately in our own experience, we will then extend the same technique outward into two different social noting situations (small groups and one-on-one).
Such practices can really help us become more aware of how we function in the presence of others and the right stance can make that functioning more skilful.
Anyone preferring not to speak will also have the option of taking on the role of observer.