Guiding Meditation. Starting with settling the Body and then the breath. A subtle balance between relaxation adn allertness. Focusing on the breath sensations in relationship with the air element.
Interrupting the causes of Dukkha, and the significance of feeling tone.
Guided meditation - recognising that which takes us away, and the feeling tone. Intimacy with the neutral object.
Informal practice: flexible awareness - finding what is appropriate: opening awareness, and contact with other sense doors, simplifying with the breathing.
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Coming to the senses - directing our attention to the experience of bare ‘contact’.
Guided meditation - contacting a neutral object in formal meditation, with bare awareness.
Informal practice - simplifying, coming back to the body, and contacting the other senses.
