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Foundations of Meditation: Awareness, Compassion and Insight
55 students
Foundations of Meditation: Awareness, Compassion and Insight
Learn practical meditation techniques to understand our mind, work with difficult emotions, and cultivate compassion.
Created byPietro Falco
Last updated 10/2026
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What you'll learn
- What meditation is
- Fundamentals of three forms of medidation: calm-abiding, loving kindness, and insight meditation
- How to apply meditation to deal with difficult thoughts and emotions
- Meditation practices to cultivate love, compassion, joy, and equanimity
- Analytical meditation and work with conceptual distortions
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Course content
4 sections • 15 lectures • 3h 18m total length
Requirements
- You are available to spend a few minutes per day to practice
- You are interested in working and familiarizing with your mind
Description
Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, escaping difficult emotions, or trying to feel peaceful all the time. It is about developing a different relationship with our own experience.
In this course, you will explore three complementary approaches to meditation, drawing from contemplative traditions and adapted to everyday life.
We will begin with calm-abiding meditation (Shamatha), learning to cultivate awareness through sounds, bodily sensations, thoughts, and emotions. Rather than fighting distractions or trying to control the mind, we will discover how ordinary experiences can become opportunities for practice and growth.
We will then explore loving-kindness and compassion meditation, cultivating four qualities that can enrich our relationship with ourselves and others: love, compassion, joy, and equanimity.
Finally, we will introduce analytical and insight meditation (Vipassana), exploring how our perceptions, thoughts, and deeply held assumptions shape the way we experience reality.
My own meditation journey began during a challenging period of my life, over 15 years ago. Since then, meditation has become an important part of how I understand myself and relate to life's difficulties. Alongside my scientific career as a university professor, I have deepened this exploration through Tibetan contemplative traditions and formal studies in Contemplative Studies at the University of Padova.
I created this course to share something that has been genuinely meaningful in my life, with the hope that others may discover its value through their own direct experience.
Who this course is for:
- Anybody can potentially receive strong benefit from learning the basics of meditation
- Who wants to improve emotional intelligence and relationship with thoughts and emotions
- Anyone interested in exploring meditation, whether approaching it for the first time or wishing to deepen an existing practice. People seeking to develop greater awareness and a healthier relationship with thoughts and emotions. Those interested in exploring compassion, loving-kindness, and insight through contemplative practice.