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The meditation objects we will be working with this course:
Three objects:
Three objects:
- Relaxed and open awareness. Relaxing the mind and body. Let the mind wander but when you lose your awareness and get pulled into the story-line of your mind-wandering come back to open awareness.
- Receiving the sensation of the breath in a specific spot. Let the breath be completely as it is, unobstructed and un-directed. When the mind wanders bring it back to receiving the sensation of the breath. (Release Jaw Tension)
- Feel love moving out of you in all directions. Just warmth and compassion emanating outward. If your able to get a visceral feeling then just simmer into that feeling for as long as you can. When you lose it begin again.
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At their first meeting, Dipa Ma asked Sudipti if she could meditate right then and there for five minutes. “So I sat with her for five minutes,” Sudipti recalls. “Then she gave me instructions in meditation anyway, even though I said I had no time. Somehow I found five minutes a day, and I followed her instructions. And from this five minutes, I became so inspired. I was able to find longer and longer times to meditate, and soon I was meditating many hours a day, into the night, sometimes all night, after my work was done. I found energy and time I didn’t know I had.”
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Meditative
Any practice or activity we do to calm the nervous system and promote emotional or physical recovery.
Meditation: Three working definitions for meditation:
1. The practice of releasing blocks to infinite compassion and freedom.
2. The practice of minimizing and/or eradicating confused states brought on by grasping and aversion, which block our access to the spacious, liberated, and infinitely loving heart.
3. A formal on-going practice of working on specific mental abilities for the purpose of greater states of awakening, or greater states of well being or both.
Purpose/ Goal
Releasing blocks to infinite compassion and freedom.
To cultivate attention, awareness and insight.
Method: What we do to achieve the goal
Repeatedly place the attention on the object of meditation again and again. (with attention to intention and equanimity.)
Effects/Side-Effects: The experiences that may arise
Peacefulness, frustration, hopelessness, anxiety, fear, bliss, joy, hope, mental pain, physical pain, accomplishment, confidence, energy, vitality.
Results: The qualities and abilities that develop from doing the practice
Moving into greater states of awakening, well-being, and mental clarity.
Any practice or activity we do to calm the nervous system and promote emotional or physical recovery.
Meditation: Three working definitions for meditation:
1. The practice of releasing blocks to infinite compassion and freedom.
2. The practice of minimizing and/or eradicating confused states brought on by grasping and aversion, which block our access to the spacious, liberated, and infinitely loving heart.
3. A formal on-going practice of working on specific mental abilities for the purpose of greater states of awakening, or greater states of well being or both.
Purpose/ Goal
Releasing blocks to infinite compassion and freedom.
To cultivate attention, awareness and insight.
Method: What we do to achieve the goal
Repeatedly place the attention on the object of meditation again and again. (with attention to intention and equanimity.)
Effects/Side-Effects: The experiences that may arise
Peacefulness, frustration, hopelessness, anxiety, fear, bliss, joy, hope, mental pain, physical pain, accomplishment, confidence, energy, vitality.
Results: The qualities and abilities that develop from doing the practice
Moving into greater states of awakening, well-being, and mental clarity.