This week we’re going to finish up looking at the three characteristics which fuel insight practice. Recall in previous emails that I mentioned how we change our relationship with ourselves and the world by provoking insights about the nature of experience, and that we do that by collecting evidence about three aspects of experience: impermanence, …
This week we’re continuing our work getting into the nuts and bolts of insight practice. Recall that last week I mentioned how we change our relationship with ourselves and the world by provoking insights about the nature of experience, and that we do that by collecting evidence about three aspects of experience: impermanence, suffering/unsatisfactoriness and …
As you may have noticed, one of the core things we are keen on at Meditative.dev is using meditation as a vehicle for insight practice. Insight in a general sense is defined as the capacity to gain an accurate and deep understanding of someone or something. The types of insights we’re interested in here are …
This week is a good one for playing with one way of integrating what we’ve been practising over the last few weeks. In our daily practice we can integrate the different techniques we’ve been learning together in helpful ways. For example, we can start a sit by relaxing tensions systematically throughout the body. This …
Insight is any way of looking that releases craving. ― Rob Burbea, Seeing That Frees This week we’re diving into the relationship between grasping, letting go and acceptance. This will allow us to tie together all those other meditation terms that pop up everywhere like clinging, dropping the ball, contraction, letting be, craving, aversion, etc. …
Hey everybody, First a brief note on why we do the technique called noting at Meditative.dev. This is primarily for the reason that, in my opinion, and based on available evidence, it is the most effective insight (deconstruction) technique there is. However, this is only true on two main conditions. The first is that we …
