Archive for the 'Meditation' Category
Meditation Gear [Hivelogic]
My friend Dan Benjamin, has a great post about meditation gear on Hivelogic.com
I’m very interested in Dan’s meditation timer:
My favorite timer, and the one I use currently at home, is the Zen Timepiece by Now & Zen. It has a removable 6-inch brass bowl-gong which is struck by a little hammer for a [...]
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Hivelogic, a website about discovering quality, living more efficiently, and leading a simpler, more mindful life, has a wonderful post on how to Start a Meditation Practice, with some good sound advice, and resources.
Over the years, a daily meditation practice has completely transformed my life, helping me to be happier, more effective and productive, [...]
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Beginning Meditation Class 1
Beginning Insight Meditation with Rodney Smith, guiding teacher of the Seattle Insight Meditation Society. Visit us at seattleinsight.org
More videos here: http://bit.ly/1mX0UJ
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Back in August of 08, I introduced Meditator a little iPhone app project for a simple meditation timer for iPhone and iPod touch. I asked many of you for your help and feedback to make it even better. Today I am pleased to show you a preview of what is to come in Meditator [...]
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It’s a great day for a walk, so why not walk mindfully?
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A Meditation Timer for iPhone
I am very happy to present to you a new product designed and coded by me for the meditation community. It is called Meditator, and is a meditation timer for iPhone & iPod Touch. If you like Zencast, you will love meditator. It is only version 1.0 so it is just the start, [...]
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Loving-Kindness Meditation
To practice loving-kindness meditation, sit in a comfortable and relaxed manner. Take two or three deep breaths with slow, long and complete exhalations. Let go of any concerns or preoccupations. For a few minutes, feel or imagine the breath moving through the center of your chest – in the area of your heart.
Metta is [...]
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Homework to Zencast 151 – Mindfulness Meditation Course Wk 5
Mindfulness Meditation (Week 5)
by Gil Fronsdal
Now that we have practiced with mindfulness of the breath, body, emotions and thoughts in previous weeks, the new instruction is to turn the attention around and notice the mind itself. Not just the content of the [...]
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Homework to Zencast 150 – Mindfulness Meditation Course Wk 4
Mindfulness Meditation (Week 4)
by Gil Fronsdal
Sometimes people think that the point of meditation
is to stop thinking — to have a silent mind. This [...]
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Homework to Zencast 149 – Mindfulness Meditation Course Wk 3
Mindfulness Meditation (Week 3)
by Gil Fronsdal
In mindfulness practice we keep our attention on the
breath, unless some other experience is so strong [...]
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Homework to Zencast 148 – Mindfulness Meditation Course Wk 2
Mindfulness Meditation (Week 2)
by Gil Fronsdal
Mindfulness of breathing is a wonderful beginning to
cultivating awareness. It strengthens our ability to concentrate and
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Homework to Zencast 147 – Mindfulness Meditation Course Wk 1
Mindfulness Meditation (Week 1)
by Gil Fronsdal From: Insight Meditation Center
Insight meditation, or Vipassana, is one of the central
teachings of the Buddha. It has continued as [...]
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Matthieu Ricard, a Tibetan Buddhist Monk of 25 years, “examines the inner and outer factors that increase or diminish our sense of well-being, dissect the underlying mechanisms of happiness, and lead us to a way of looking at the mind itself”. (via The Middle Way)
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