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Today’s meditation was:
5th Session_Analytical Meditation_Identifying and Dispelling the Object of Negation_Breath Basis – Ven. Yonten
(part of a series on the Three Principal Aspects of the Path).It’s likely we’ll be repeating this one tomorrow, in which case, I’ll say “have a good week” now. Have a good week!
In case anyone is interested, there is a free lecture next month that will include cyclical cosmology. In person and online attendance possible.
From The Journey from Black-Hole Singularities to a Cyclic Cosmology, 9 June 2022
Gresham College presents The Annual Sir Thomas Gresham Lecture 2022 with Sir Roger Penrose:
The “singularity theorems” of the 1960s demonstrated that large enough celestial bodies, or collections of such bodies, would, collapse gravitationally, to “singularities”, where the equations and assumptions of Einstein’s general relativity cannot be mathematically continued. Such singularities are expected to lie deep within what we now call black holes. Similar arguments (largely by Stephen Hawking) apply also to the “Big-Bang” picture of the origin of the universe, but whose singularity has a profound structural difference, resulting in the 2nd law of thermodynamics, whereby “randomness” in the universe increases with time. It is hard to see how any ordinary procedures of “quantization” of Einstein’s theory can resolve this contrasting singularity conundrum,
Yet, a deeper understanding of the special nature of the Big Bang is obtained from the perspective of conformal geometry, removing the distinction between “big” and “small, and whereby the Big-Bang singularity, unlike those in black holes, becomes non-singular, and can be regarded as the conformal continuation of a previous “cosmic aeon”, leading to the picture of conformal cyclic cosmology (CCC) according to which the entire universe consists of a succession of such cosmic aeons, each of whose big bang is the conformal continuation of the remote future of a previous aeon. Some recently observed effects provide some remarkable support for this CCC picture.
Today’s meditation was:
The Way of Shamatha Retreat with Alan Wallace (3/26)
The meditation starts at 00:16:30 and continues until 00:40:34.The first half is settling the body and mind, and the second half is shamata practice.
Have a good week!
Today’s meditation included nine-round breathing and love/equanimity.
Express Meditation (Nine-Round Breathing) – Ven. Katy Cole
Hi Thalia,
Yes, by Zoom.
We meet at 7:50am UK time on Mondays and Tuesdays (so that people have time to get a cup of tea afterwards, before Morning Prayers starts).
or use the following details:
Meeting ID: 979 3195 4336
Passcode: 8Lpvs2Hope you can join us!
Today’s meditation marked the first anniversary of this Meditation Group – we have completed one year of regular sessions. So today’s meditation was about rejoicing:
Express Meditation (Rejoicing) with Ven. Losang Dondrub
Thank you to everyone who came along, meditated, led or supported this group during the last 12 months. Let’s see whether we can do another year!
In honour of the last teaching weekend on the Stages of the Path, this morning’s meditation was:
Express Meditation with Ven. Robina Courtin (Glance Meditation on the Lam Rim)
This morning, we followed Geshe-la’s meditation from the last teaching weekend, which can be found under Supporting Materials in Learndash here:
Meditation: Selflessness & Dependent Origination – Geshe Namdak.
I will be away next week, but the Zoom sessions will be open, so anyone can share a meditation, or have a chat/discussion if they wish.
Have a good weekend!
This morning’s meditation:
4a. Meditation: Close Placement on Phenomena – Ven. Yonten
This morning’s session followed:
Episode 38: Guided Meditation – How Things Exist from “A Skeptic’s Path to Enlightenment” – Scott Snibbe.
Have a good week!
We’ve just been discussing this in the meditation group. There are three of us who’ve discussed a car share to Nalanda but I’m not sure whether they’ve made a definite decision on attending yet.
(I’m probably not attending, myself, but then I wouldn’t inflict my driving on anyone else anyway!)
This morning we followed:
4th Close Placement of Mindfulness Meditation
– Ven. Yonten (again! But Ven. Yonten posts so many good short meditations!)This morning, we revisited:
The Foundation of all Good Qualities Meditation – Ven. Yonten.
Have a good week!
This morning’s meditation was:
1d. Meditation: Close Placement on the Body: The Nine Cemetery Contemplations – Ven. Yonten.
This meditation involves visualising the decay of a corpse of a person who is approximately the same age as yourself, so please bear in mind that it might be upsetting. I apologise to whoever found it difficult to listen to this morning.
Thank you, Katrin! And thanks again to Laura F. for taking charge last week and yesterday.
This morning’s meditation was 1c. Meditation: Close Placement on the Body: Reflection the Material Elements (Ven. Yonten).
