The shortest month of the year need not mean the most insignificant month of the year. I’m very curious to hear how this February has gone for yous and what you’ve learnt. So after a customary meditation, let’s check in with one another, as that’s always a good thing.
Dear meditating meditators, Sometimes we can speak of currents of sensations passing through the body, spurred for whatever reason. Have you noticed these? What if we evoke them and play with them? Without revealing too much I’ll just say this’ll be a fun and creative session and leave it at that.
Hello hello, After a 2 week hiatus, we’re back in action! Here’s a question, what is the thing that we unlock at stream entry (a key, irreversible turning point in our practice) that makes all the difference? Any ideas??? Well, I gave you a clue in the title…it’s a permanent sense of equanimity at some …
Dear conscientious minds, Phenomenology meets Epistemology precisely on this point. Depending on how thick your mind construes certain features of experience corresponds to how much you believe in the fundamental existence of those features. What is the ground of being to you? How thick and sludgy is it perceived by you? This …
If you’ve come to enough Tuesday sessions you’ve probably heard Shawn or I mention Jhana meditation quite a lot. And you may wonder what is Jhana? The way I put it is: The Jhanas are a series of highly refined altered states induced via meditation. The jhanas create positive feedback loops of recurring extremely peaceful and pleasurable …
Where are the boundaries of control? Another week, another aspect of mind to deconstruct. This time, the sense of agency. A core principle in Stoicism is ‘don’t worry about things out of your control’. But where exactly is that division between what is in and out of your control? Let’s look! Starting with …
Teaching through non-teaching. Learning through non-learning Believe it or not, but if a baby falls into a pool of water it will naturally know to not breathe underwater. It will roll onto its back and float, despite never practising nor being taught to. (There are videos one can look up which demonstrate this – not …
Meditation is mostly a private endeavour. But we live in a world with other beings. We may have many incredible experiences during and because of mediation, and no one really knows exactly what you experience but yourself. However, we can try to share our experiences and insights as best we can with the powerful tool …
Shawn and I are big fans of metta, as we believe love is a powerful attractor field which smooths out the rough textures in our minds, seeks unity and sameness, rather than difference and judgement. To love and be loved feels amazing, motivating and empowering. Love makes concentration easier while releasing contraction. Metta practice is …
Fellow fellows, If you listen to Dan Deacon’s song ‘Learning to Relax’ you may think it is anything but relaxing. But I like this song for that reason. My interpretation of the song is it gets at how first getting energetic can then bring you to calm. Going crazy can bring you to sanity. Inducing …
