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On 28 April, we followed Day 62 of the Lam Rim year:
■ Guru devotion is the most difficult realization to achieve, so it demands great effort
■ Using quotations and reasoning, we must reflect on the points again and again
■ Once the mind is transformed into devotion, stabilize it through fixed meditationHello. Apologies for the lack of updates. I’ve been away a lot, but Katrin and Laura have kept the sessions going.
I know that they repeated the 12 links part 1 meditation in the previous post, and also followed:
Hello!
I missed posting last week, and I can’t remember which pages of the Lam Rim year we did. (I thought we did page 14, but having read it just now, I’m not sure!)
I can tell you what we did this week, however.
On Monday, we followed:
Day 34 Lam Rim Year – If we want profit and don’t want loss we have to practice seeing the guru as a buddha
Then today, we followed:
I skipped yesterday, but the group followed a Ven. Robina meditation.
This morning, we followed:
Express Meditation Ven. Katy Cole: Continuity of Consciousness
Have a good week!
This week, we did two more meditations from the Lamrim year (though I messed up the screensharing on Tuesday, so only some of us followed it!)
Monday: Day 6 – The Virtuous Friend is the Most Powerful Object in Our Life;
Tuesday: Day 7 – There is a Need for an Organic, Living Kind of Force to Come in Touch with Our Life.Link to a .pdf version of the Lamrim Year – click here
Today we followed day 4 of the Lamrim year. The bullet points were:
■ Guru devotion is called the root of the path because all realizations grow from it
■ It comes at the beginning of the lamrim so we can start our spiritual life without mistakes
■ Guru devotion is the most important of all teachings and is the source of all happinessThank you Laura for running things (I slept through my alarm!)
Have a lovely week!
Today, we went back to Shamatha.
Tour of Shamatha Practices – B. Alan Wallace
And we used the Tuesday session for individual meditation based on day 3 of the Lamrim Year.
The bullet points for that day are:
■ The lamrim outline gives us an overview of all the Buddha’s teachings
■ All the great meditators of the past used this outline to quickly gain realizations
■ We need to be patient: with perseverance we will definitely make progressOn Monday, we used the session for individual meditation based on day 1 of the Lamrim Year
This morning, we followed:
Express Meditation with Ven. Robina Courtin (Equanimity)
Have a lovely week!
I had a week off again (thanks to Laura and Katrin for keeping going).
This morning we followed:
Meditation on antidotes to attachment – Ven. Sangye Khadro.
We also had a discussion about how to use these sessions in the future. In the past, I hadn’t worried too much about relying on guided meditations, because the sessions only happen on 2 days each week. After the discussion though, we’ll start using this more as a routine for meditating individually, without always following a guided meditation. We’re going to try using least one session a week for this. So there will be fewer posts for me on this thread!
Cheers!
I’m back again. Katrin and Laura kept the sessions going while I was away.
This morning, we followed:
Meditation on precious human life – Ven. Sangye Khadro
This morning, we followed the meditation that accompanies the Skeptic’s Path episode that we listened to last week:
Guided Meditation – What is the Mind? – Scott Snibbe
I’m away tomorrow but the current plan is to repeat it.
Cheers!
I messed up a bit on Tuesday and hit the wrong link, so we listened to a normal episode of Skeptics Path/How to Train a Happy Mind, rather than a guided meditation. I didn’t stop it because it seemed pretty relevant to where we are in the course.
What is the Mind? – Scott Snibbe
We’ll do the actual meditation next week!
This morning, we followed:
Creating Compassionate Culture – Venerable Robina Courtin, Express Meditation (1)
Cheers!
