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Wednesday’s meditation was very short, but we listened to the introductory remarks about selecting an object, the diagram of the 9 stages of mindfulness and effort too.
Weekly_Six Perfections: Perfection of Joyous Effort & Intro to Concentration 11/16/21 (Ven. Yonten)
(Meditation runs between 01:12:08 to 01:21:12, but we started listening at 01:08:22)Monday’s meditation:
Glen Svensson – Shamatha Practice: Developing Mindfulness [3 of 6] (2021)
(Meditation runs between 00:50:11 to 1:05:25)There was no session on Wednesday (apologies!) I had a meeting that morning and I didn’t see a message about issues getting the session started until it was too late.
Today’s meditation was Universalizing Our Problems And Pleasures (Scott Snibbe, Skeptic’s Path)
Thank you to those who came along to any of the sessions, and apologies again for Wednesday.
Have a lovely weekend.
Monday’s meditation was:
Mindfulness with a Mental Image (Shiné / Shamatha / Serenity / Calm-Abiding) (Ven. Yonten)
This was the meditation with short bursts of concentration of up to 3 minutes.
Yesterday’s meditation:
Guided Compassion Meditation(Skeptic’s Path to Enlightenment).
Today, we repeated the 9 Round Breathing Meditation by Ven. Yonten from Monday (link in the post above).
Have a good weekend!
This morning’s link:
Nine-Round Breathing Meditation_Simple Version (Ven. Yonten)
Thursday’s:
Glen Svensson – Shamatha Practice: Developing Mindfulness [1 of 6] (2021) (starting at 00:49:48 and stopping at 01:04:48)
Thanks to everyone who came along. Hope it was helpful!
Wednesday meditation:
#30 Pema Chodron – Tonglen Meditation (starting at 32:23)
The evening class I mentioned is “Buddhist Philosophy in a Nutshell” at CityLit, 4 Monday evenings starting on 15 November.
Monday’s recording:
Understanding Emptiness through the Three Levels of Dependency (Ven. Yonten)
Hi everyone,
Thanks to Laura C for looking after the sessions last Thursday and Monday. On Wednesday, we didn’t follow a meditation.
Today, we did this one:
MEDITATION_Levels of Dependent Arising (Ven. Yonten)
There isn’t any homework in the meditation schedule for next week, so if anyone has a topic or recording they’d like to cover, bring it along.
Have a good weekend.
Wednesday:
Class and Meditation: Avoiding Extremes_Tenets and Dependent Arising (Ven. Yonten) – the meditation starts at about 20:44.
(We may well repeat this one when we have more people present, as it’s very relevant to the homework).I’m away tomorrow and next Monday. The online sessions will be open – thanks to Laura C for helping with these.
This week…
Monday:
6.4 – Prasangika (Glen Svensson)Thursday – “Entering the Middle Way, 3.10.21” – Geshe Kelsang Wangmo.
The meditation starts at 1:19:19.Thanks to everyone who came along!
Wednesday – “Recognizing My Mother Day 2 – The Object of Negation” – Venerable Yonten.
(The meditation starts at 19:56)This weeks links:
Monday – repeat of the rest of The Skeptics Path to Enlightenment, Podcast #43 – The Interdependent Self
