For the Love of Meditation

Name: For the Love of Meditation
Rating: 4.5 (150 reviews)

Lay the groundwork for an engaging sitting practice by cultivating the love and curiosity of meditation.

Created byMark Johnson

Last updated 3/2015

English

What you'll learn

Build the momentum to meditate
Look forward to each meditation with curiosity and eagerness
Enjoy the time spent being with oneself
Select an appropriate style of meditation. Appropriate for you, and for the moment.

Course content

7 sections • 33 lectures • 1h 56m total length

We Love Meditation For...11:40
A welcoming introduction to a month of meditation.

What You Love Most2:46
Notice the effect that love has on your focus and concentration.
Your Mantra3:50
Learn to use a word or phrase of your own choosing to concentrate your meditation.
Nature is My Meditation4:03
Many people who don't meditate claim that "Nature is my meditation". Though walks in nature are relaxing, restorative, beautiful and pleasurable, they don't don't necessarily cultivate concentration, compassion or mindfulness.

In this meditation we will learn about the use of visualization, gaining all of the above.
Counting Meditation2:00
Counting is a valuable support, especially in the beginning of our practice, for getting concentrated.
Introducing Pleasure6:45
Microcosmic Orbit6:30
Awareness rising up the spine with inhalation, and down the front with exhalation.
For the Love of Love7:01
Practice the practice of loving kindness, to cultivate the love of love.

Choose Your Own Meditation1:41
Spend the first few minutes of your meditation deciding on a meditation practice of your own choosing.
The Body Scan5:06
Search the body for tension.
Vipassana. Insight Meditation.3:53
With the center of your awareness just below your nose, just note what arises and passes away.
Active Imagination. An Enlightened Visitor.4:24
We all have troubles. See them through the eyes of an enlightened master.
Macrocosmic Orbit - Central Vessel2:18
Awareness rises up the front with inhalation, and down the back with exhalation.
More Pleasure Please5:32
Learn to trade glitter for gold.
Who Am I?3:11
Inquire into your true nature. What do you find?

Notice Impermanence1:54
One of the three characteristics of reality, everything is impermanent. Notice.
Focus of Intention1:32
Maintain your thoughts on the topic of what you would like in this moment, in this meditation, in this day, in this year, in this life.
Vipassana. Mindfulness Meditation2:42
With the center of your awareness in your belly, just note what arises and passes away.
Just Sit1:27
Do not do anything. Do not even meditate.

This is Zen.
Tonglen Meditation2:04
Follow the Tibetan practice of breathing in white light, breathing out blackness.
Pleasure of the Whole Body4:13
Use the breath to spread pleasure through, and awaken, the body.
Who do I take myself to be?2:51
If you exist, whatever you are must be present.

Walking Meditation2:07
Rising Kundalini4:50
Build the awareness and energy at the base of the spine and allow it to rise up the spine.
Meditation on Death2:52
Meditate on death and impermanence. Be relaxed and kind towards yourself in this process.
The Nature of Suffering3:39
The third characteristic of reality: life is suffering. And yet, suffering is optional.
Active Appreciation1:56
Focus on gratitude and appreciation. What are you grateful for?
Koan Meditation1:54
Today's koan: How do you extinguish a flame that is 600 miles away?
Supracosmic Lemniscate2:25
Awareness arises all around you as you inhale, and drops into your core on exhalation.

Sensations of the Heart1:52
Pay attention to the sensations of the heart.
Future Self2:24
Mindful life visualization. Picture in your mind's eye yourself living your life in a mindful, loving and concentrated way.

Allow yourself dream. A bubble? A thunderclap? A star? All of reality looking at itself? Or do I take the form of a role model for a little while?
Movie Meditation1:45
Introducing the practice of movie meditation. Turn watching a movie into an exercise of concentration.

Requirements

Interest in meditation

Description

Learn to love meditation for it's own sake. Over the course of a month, by sampling 31 different ways of practicing, you will learn to love not only the results but the practice itself.

In each short recording you will learn a new technique and see the benefits that come through such a practice in your own experience.

Different meditations bring different results, and speak to different people in different ways. Find out what sorts of meditations are valuable and effective for you, and in the process, cultivate:

Mindfulness
Concentration,
Compassion
Pleasure
Fearlessness
Skills and means of emotional transformation.

This free course is designed especially for beginners looking to establish a practice, but will support anyone who's practice could use the support and invigoration that comes through the love of practice.

Complete this course and see the changes in your life and practice.

Who this course is for:

The course is for beginner to intermediate meditators who could benefit by having greater appreciation for their practice.

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Course content

Introducing the Love of Meditation1 lecture • 12min

Raising Consciousness7 lectures • 33min

Supporting Mindfulness7 lectures • 26min

Creating Concentration7 lectures • 17min

Establishing Practice7 lectures • 20min

Continuing Practice3 lectures • 6min

With the Love of Meditation1 lecture • 3min

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