{This talk is part of a set of three recordings from the retreat (Vedana; Instructions – Mindfulness of Vedana; Guided Meditation – Mindfulness of Feeling Tone). All three recordings focus on mindfulness of feeling tones with general explanations, practical instructions and guided meditation.}

{This talk is part of a set of three recordings from the retreat (Vedana; Instructions – Mindfulness of Vedana; Guided Meditation – Mindfulness of Feeling Tone). All three recordings focus on mindfulness of feeling tones with general explanations, practical instructions and guided meditation}.

{This talk is part of a set of three recordings from the retreat (Vedana; Instructions – Mindfulness of Vedana; Guided Meditation – Mindfulness of Feeling Tone). All three recordings focus on mindfulness of feeling tones with general explanations, practical instructions and guided meditation.}

Sixth Instructions

Fourth Instructions

Second Instructions

An indepth exploration of the different ways meditation can help us to creatively engaged in daily life, including within our relationships with loved ones.

How mindfulness of contact and feeling tones could lead to creative engagement in daily life.

These draft papers presented by their authors at the 2017 Vedana Symposium sponsored by the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies will be revised and published in 2018 in a special edition of the Journal of Contemporary Buddhism.

Looking into experiencing degrasping directly and indirectly through cultivating meditation and mindfulness. How can we creatively engaged with self, others, material things, etc in our daily life.

Exploring the basis of meditation and how cultivating meditation is going to help us in our daily life.

Connecting ethics with mindfulness of feeling tones. Exploring appropriate speech, action and livelihood.

Exploring the connection between perception and feeling tones, looking deeply and compassionate response. Questioning if change is total or partial.

Exploring anchoring and questioning in the context of secular meditation in terms of goal and values. Looking at meditative experience, and mindfulness of feeling tones.

The connection between experiential enquiry and compassion, how to develop and manifest a compassionate wise intention in daily life.

The Way of Korean Seon and it's connection with Vipassana.

An exploration of concentration and anchoring, and also of perception and how we perceive, with a link to experiential enquiry.

Being aware of feeling tones when in contact with the music of life

Exploring the importance of mindfulness of feeling tones in connection with grasping and creatively engaging with contact through the senses.

During this daylong we will examine the process of grasping and its amplifying/exaggerating effects and how meditation can help us to de-grasp and release our holding thus allowing for creative engagement and a creative response. We will have the opportunity to practice mindfulness meditation (sitting and walking) to develop our potential for letting go. We will also explore the different ways we can meditate.

During this daylong we will examine the process of grasping and its amplifying/exaggerating effects and how meditation can help us to de-grasp and release our holding thus allowing for creative engagement and a creative response. We will have the opportunity to practice mindfulness meditation (sitting and walking) to develop our potential for letting go. We will also explore the different ways we can meditate.

During this talk I would like to explore mindfulness of the feeling tones (vedena), which is the second foundation of the practice of mindulness. First I will try to present the different aspects of mindfulness. Secondly I will try to define feeling tones and thirdly how to be mindful of them. The Pali term vedana refers to the affective tone of experience. When we come into contact through one of our six senses with the environment, we experience a pleasant, unpleasant or neither pleasant nor unpleasant feeling tone. It is important to see that feeling tones are constructed, they are not a given, they do not reside in the object we come in contact with. It is vital to be aware of feeling tones as they arise extremely fast and have a profound impact on our behavior.

Exploring the bodhisattva precepts, the goals of practice and meditative experiences and awakening.

Looking at the two aspects of meditation: anchoring and experiential inquiry. Listening meditation instructions

Looking at the 3 aspects of emptiness: not-self, conditionality and interconnection

The two ways to look at doubt in meditation practice, questioning 'What is this?' while cultivating effortless effort.

What does it means 'to save all beings', remove all obstacles and attain the way nowadays?

Cultivating anchoring and experiential inquiry

Exploring altruistic joy and wise speech in daily life.

Exploring balance and stability.

Exploring sudden awakening and gradual practice.

Exploring feeling tones and creative engagement.

Exploring calm, its practice and its function, notably through mindfulness of the body.

Exploring effort and presenting the connection between concentration and loving kindness.

Exploring attention and investigation and it's connection to listening meditation.

The challenge of of developing community

Cultivating compassion in everyday life.

How do we self?

Awakening from a Zen perspective

Looking into the feeling tones and their connection with an ethical attitude.

Exploring grasping.

Looking at the hindrances.

Presenting the different stages of the path and the process of meditation.

Exploring how we come into contact through our senses and can creatively engage with our environment.

Looking at the meaning of selflessness and what would support our practice.

Looking at releasing our grasping and creative wise love.

Exploring creative awareness and the building blocks of meditation: samatha and vipassana.

Investigating the process of grasping and its opposite, creative engagement. Looking also at how vipassana helps us to develop wise compassion.

Exploring the two qualities that are essential to develop creative awareness.

This talk also includes Jake Dartington

The path in pictures and its relevance to daily life.

Exploring how one can become aware of feeling tones and how this could help us in our daily life.

What does it mean to have no thoughts? Exploring our mental landscape.

Looking at the process of grasping which makes us proliferate & exaggerate and creative engagement which helps us to be clear and flexible in our daily life.

Exploring the phrases and the meaning and practice of happiness, safety, and ease and their connection to contentment

Exploring a caring and careful mindfulness and making the connection with concentration and experiential enquiry.

How to apply the four Zen vows in daily life practice.

'After, during, at the beginning, before': how meditation and mindfulness can help us to let go of grasping at negative patterns.

Exploring selfing and not- selfing through three symbols of awakening. Looking at how we grasp and identify and how meditation can help us to release.