Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course
Week 5: short guided meditation cultivating compassion for oneself and others
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This meditation includes a body scan, using the imagery of a smile, and establishing the senses as a portal to presence. The more we open into the aliveness of the senses, the more we discover the alert inner stillness that is our true home.
Our being has many frequencies of aliveness and as we attend to the more subtle, we discover a portal to the radiant awareness that is always here. This meditation guides us in using the breath and attention as we scan through the body and awaken an inner luminosity. We then open the attention to rest in the whole field of awake awareness.
This meditation invites us to collect our attention with a calming breath, and then with the senses as a home base, settle into presence. The reminders encourage a letting go of thoughts, shifting from virtual reality into the aliveness of moment-to-moment experience. In that letting go into life we find the stillness, wakefulness and openness of our true nature.
Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course
Week 2: guided dyad (pairs) practice, exploring physical sensations in the body (three minutes each), then an example of a time when you became aware of the body's impermanent, unreliable and not-self nature
Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course
Week 2: A 15 minute guided meditation focus on mindfulness of the body and physical sensations
This guided meditation begins with a body scan, bringing the friendliness of a smile into the body, and waking up our awareness of aliveness. We widen the attention to include sound and then sense and rest in the awareness that holds all experience. Our reminders are to wake up from trance by reopening to our senses, allowing for a true intimacy with the life that lives through us.
