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11 Lessons
11 Lessons
Hello Everyone
So we arrive at our final meditation of our second session, after what I feel has been a very deep and detailed journey into the world of concentration. As I have already mentioned last week, I have shared as much as I think is necessary for now as the material you have had will carry you far and take time to master.
In the third term later this year we will also look at how to develop our concentration using the “Brahma Viharas”. These are the meditations on Love, Compassion, Appreciative Joy and Equanimity. We will also run a programme exploring the 4 elements and elemental Kasinas of Earth, Water, Fire and Air as well as some of the other relative meditations that the Buddha taught.
But beyond this point further development of concentration will need to go alongside your development of liberating insight (vipassana) meditation. We will discuss together with the importance of our commitment to sila (virtuous conduct) during term 3.
The final meditation I have shared this week is the skeleton meditation which I recommend you use as the basis for your practice over the summer.
I have also shared a track we did a while back as a little bit of encouragement to enter into the spirit of the yogi!
Happy meditating
with much metta
Burgs
We have now come to the end of our second module. We will take a break for summer so that you can review these lessons and integrate them before we move onto term 3. We will email you information about term 3 towards the end of August.
As you know I decided to offer this course on a donation basis so that it was available to everyone. The suggested donation for each term is £150 which would make the cost of each term including the registration fee £200. ie. £600 for the whole year if you were to follow all three terms.
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Developing Concentration on the bones with intro
Developing Concentration on the bones
