New Guided Meditation Encore Series Over the next number of weeks I’ll be running a 45-minute guided meditation on Thursdays starting this Thursday. It will be a morning meditation for those of you in Europe (8:00am CET). The meditations will be slightly modified versions of some of previous ones I gave in the Tuesday evening …
In conceiving form… vedāna… perception… fabrications… consciousness, one is bound by Māra (Death). By not conceiving form… vedanā… perception… fabrications… consciousness one is freed… -the Buddha Defabrication is a driving force in the pacification of mental construction (thoughts and the concepts they are comprised of). The word ‘concept’ doesn’t even really take it far enough …
This week we’re going to be exploring different ways of activating the sense of self after having first attenuated it. We will also experiment with using a silent social meditation to help bring it out. This type of practice tends to be helpful for getting more clarity on how the self shows up in experience.
Apparent here and now, timeless, encouraging investigation, leading inwards…. When you pay attention to it, it becomes obvious, but if you are caught up with other thoughts, activities, or conversations, the sound seems to disappear as if it had never been there. Thus, the nada sound is something “…to be experienced individually by the …
This Tuesday we’re going to explore doing insight meditation on the visual field. Doing so can help break us out of overly conceptual modes of visual perception, give rise to insights about how visual perception works, and move us closer to raw sensory experience. Such work can also teach us more about the impermance of …
This week we’re going to be meditating on the feeling-tone of sensations. Referred to as vedanā in Buddhist texts and valence or hedonic tone in psychology, it can be separated out from the phenomenal experience that gives rise to it. This has some major benefits. Learning to calmly observe and disidentify (disembed) from the feeling-tone …
We’ve done a lot of work here at Meditative.dev on noting experience. We’ve done this with simple labels (See, Hear, Feel) and more specific ones (Mahasi Sayadaw style (tingling, contentment, coolness, etc.) We’ve also done the latter socially, sharing our experience in realtime with others. Today we’re going to employ language, as we do with …
