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Archive for the 'Insight Meditation Exercises' Category
Exercise- Infinite, Expansive Nature of Body
Monday, June 28th, 2010[audio:MM-Infinite-Expansive-Nature-of-Body-Audio.mp3] Adapted from “Boundless Healing”~ Tulku Thondup Preparation: This is a sitting meditation. You want to sit in a position that is stable and comfortable- allowing yourself to be physically at ease and mentally alert. Your spine should be more or less straight- holding your upper body erect as if you were pulling it up […]
Exercise- Bringing Calmness to the Body
Monday, June 21st, 2010[audio:MM-Bringing-Calmness-to-the-Body-Audio.mp3] Adapted from “Boundless Healing”~ Tulku Thondup Preparation: This is a sitting meditation. You want to sit in a position that is stable and comfortable- allowing yourself to be physically at ease and mentally alert. Your spine should be more or less straight- holding your upper body erect as if you were pulling it up […]
Exercise- Being Alive
Monday, June 14th, 2010[audio:MM-Being-Alive-Meditation-Audio.mp3] Adapted from an excerpt in “Hard Times, Simple Times”~ Norman Fischer Let’s start with the basic practice of sitting- and just being aware of our breath and our body for a couple of minutes. Breathing in- I know that I am breathing in Breathing out- I know that I am breathing out Simply noticing […]
Exercise- Healing (Merciful) Meditation
Monday, June 7th, 2010[audio:MM-Healing-Merciful-Meditation-Audio.mp3] Introduction and Guidelines– In this meditation, we are going to explore loving kindness on a deeper level. We are going to work with our intentions of the heart through merciful awareness– kind, compassionate & forgiving awareness. Our breath and our attention are directed through our heart space– a softening of the heart. Like the […]
Exercise- Loving Kindness (Metta) Meditation
Saturday, May 1st, 2010[audio:MM-Loving-Kindness-Audio.mp3] Introduction and Guidelines– In this meditation, we are going to explore our rightfulness to be happy and wishing happiness for all other sentient beings. The guiding precept of this meditation is that all human beings want to be happy and loving… and “hatred never ceases hatred but by love alone is healed”. Metta or […]