This course looks at the foundational principles of meditation, different approaches and where they originate, why we should bother in the first place, and general myths and facts around meditation.
Week 1
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Talk
What is meditation, 5mins
Myths of meditation – part 1, 15mins
Meditation
Short grounding practice, 7mins
A framework for practice and short introduction to listening to sounds practice, 2mins
Using sounds as an anchor, 11mins
”Meditation is like cooking — and in cooking scum comes up to the surface.
Swami Venkatesananda
Week 2
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Talk
Myths of meditation – part2, 8mins
Approaches to meditation, 7mins
Meditation
Short standing practice, 10mins
A breath-led practice to steady the mind, 13mins
”Meditation is the cultivation of calm and insight (samatha-vipassana), and the development of mindfulness (sati) and concentration (samadhi) to bring them about.
Ajahn Sucitto
Week 3
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Talk
Why bother?, 13mins
Meditation techniques, 12mins
Meditation
Walking meditation instructions, 1.5mins
Walking meditation, 9mins
Bodyscan, 11mins
”You can only be in one place at any moment in time. If you feel you are missing out on something then you are. But it's not the party, or being with another person that you're missing, it's your own life.
Miss everythingsource unknown
As long as you are thinking of where you could be, you are making yourself absent from where you are now. Which means you are nowhere.
Week 4
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”In the beginning nothing comes, in the middle nothing stays, in the end nothing goes.
Milarepa
