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. …
Why meditate? Why do we do this? To reduce stress? To improve focus? To have a better understanding of our thoughts and emotions? Yes to all these, but at our core why do we care to improve ourselves in these areas through practice? What lies upstream of all these desires and sub-goals? It is my belief that …
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. – Albert Einstein (maybe) Hello aware and attentive beings, All too often meditation is spoken about in really simplistic terms – sometimes too simplistic. An issue I see time and time again is when the distinction between ‘awareness’ and ‘attention’ is not made …
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 …
In the beginning, God said: “Let there be light!” (to himself like a weirdo). 13.7 billion years later the Buddhists responded: “Hey! Turn off that light! It’s distracting and causing us dukkha.” In some sense the Do Nothing technique is simultaneously the antithesis and the epitome of meditation. Is the antithesis because you aren’t actually doing …
