Sayadaw U Jagara: GPS Meditation

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided Perspective Suggestions - Location/Direction within ourselves

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The presentation of the satipatthana is of experience divided between ‘me’ and ‘the world’. Through practice, we see through this boundary and undertake the responsibility of participating in and co-generating a reality rooted in Dhamma.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) 1) priorities for lay practice- recollections to establish steady orientation to Dhamma; 2) mindfulness when talking and using computers etc.; 3) energy, qi, Anapanasati and integration of energy; 4) on chasing the unicorn; 5) wisdom and samadhi; 6) mudita, rapture (piti) and stability; 7) contemplating the arising of the ‘me’ sense, dependent on phenomena.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The renunciate quality of retreat removes our psychological cushions. Therefore soothing, not intensity, is needed. Gaining health and psychological flex, we can disband the fantasies that haunt the heart.

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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Wise reflection - advice from the Buddha to Mohanama

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The ups and downs of experience in our practice is completely normal - an encouragement that all is the path.

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