The Art of Concentration Session 2 Rerun: Lesson 8

Hello Everyone

I hope you found the review week helpful.

I know I have delivered alot of material and so it may feel like we are moving on quite quickly. In truth each of these practices will take patience and perseverance and I will continue to encourage you to keep coming back to them. So we shouldn’t feel like we have to master them. Many aspects of our mind and character have to be gradually refined for us to be able to do them really well and it is the gradual and systematic practicing of all of these practices that in time wear away the unrefined parts of our mind.

This week we continue! – Using the skills we have been working on so far, ie. direct perception as our way of attention, and then the gathering and building of one-pointedness as we land on each object, we will now go around the body systematically. Stopping for about a minute, staying there with as much stability and absorption as we can and then moving on to another part, we are training our mind to work methodically, systematically and diligently. This will keep pacifying and clearing our restlessness, it will clear our ignorance and dullness and it will start to build up genuinely wholesome mental states in our body for decent periods of time. This is where our meditation will start to have a positive impact on our physical health and how we feel internally, this is one of the many wholesome side-effects of our meditation. I guide through the body, part by part in the meditation so you don’t need to worry about timing a minute.

I hope you enjoy this exercise. It is building on all we have done so far and by now I hope you are feeling that your meditation mind is becoming nice and coherent.

Happy meditating

with much metta

Burgs