I’m now back after a few weeks away on retreat and thought I’d share a practice I came up with while away. It involves an exploration of what we identify with. On this topic, the philosopher Thomas Metzinger has a great concept he refers to as the unit of identification. In his words this …
This week we’ll be dipping into an acceptance practice. Acceptance of experience as it happens is crucial to increasing equanimity in the face of phenomena and thus to making progress with one’s insight practice. The more we learn to embrace, absorb and accept all experience as it manifests, the less we seek to grasp on …
This week we’re going to pick up where we left off last time in the investigation of the relationship between our embodied experience and others. We’ll warm up with a guided silent noting practice in the first meditation. Then we’ll further explore how that experience shows up in the presence of others. We’ll do this …
This week we’re going to focus on exploring how emotions show up in our bodies. We can start such an exploration from an understanding of feelings as a combination of arising thoughts and bodily-based emotions. Without perceptual clarity (which can be developed through insight meditation) this combination is often perceived as one entangled whole. We’ll …
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 …
This week we’re going to dive into a rarity at meditative.dev and do a single forty-five minute guided meditation where we practice and see the relationship between two aspects of concentration: meta-awareness and letting go. We’ll sharpen both of these in the first half of the session and then we’ll use our new shiny …
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Love in its many forms Lovely people how are you? Given the date, it seems appropriate we may make contact with the topic of love this week. But what is love? Something I’ve found very helpful in coming to understand our one big L-word is with the ancient Greeks’ many words: …
Hello you, In past sessions, we’ve done a lot of noting/labelling and although it is extremely useful, at some point you have to drop all those labels and be able to clearly perceive what is arising in the mind without conceptualizing it. Do not confuse the finger pointing to the moon as the moon itself. …
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 …
This week we’re going to be reviewing fundamentals. It will be a good week to make sure you’re not missing any key aspects to your practice. The role of aspects such as posture, intention, relaxation, acceptance, effort, meta-awareness and the three characteristics in insight will all be put into practice in the session’s two guided …
