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Meditation beyond mindfulness
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Meditation beyond mindfulness

Use meditation to grow your ability to love, be compassionate, feel joy for others and accept all situations as they are
Created byLuke McGibbon
Last updated 5/2024
English

What you'll learn

  • Metta or loving-kindness meditation, which will help cultivate warmth towards others.
  • Karuna or compassion meditation, which will help cultivate compassion for others who hurt.
  • Mudita or sympathetic joy meditation, which will help you to feel happiness for others.
  • Upekka or equaniminity meditation, which helps to cultivate acceptance of all situations and beings.
  • Forgiveness.

Course content

7 sections • 30 lectures • 1h 28m total length

  • Introduction5:21

    An introduction to the course, and what it is about.

    Some years ago, after having read the excellent book "lovingkindness" by Sharon Salzberg, I found a distinct lack of meditations based on the ones listed in the book (except lovingkindness, of course).

    I made some to use for myself, and have decided to release them with this course, alongside a few short talks giving my own thoughts on each one. Hope you enjoy.

Requirements

  • No requirements, though having meditated in the past is helpful.

Description

Mindfulness is probably the most popular and ubiquitous kind of meditation out there at the moment, and it's great that it's seeing so much use around the world in schools, therapy and elsewhere.

However, there can be more to meditation!

One aspect of Buddhist teaching is the four heavenly abodes, or brahmaviharas as they are known. These are emotional states that are seen as almost godly, and in buddhism are known as something that can be cultivated through different forms of meditation.

The four brahmaviharas are-

Metta, or loving-kindness.

Karuna, or compassion

Mudita, or sympathetic joy

and upekka, or equanimity.

In this course I will discuss them as I see them (because at the end of the day I am just a layman). These talks are optional. There are some simple guided meditations that are also available for download after. You can skip right to them if you want. There are longer versions of the meditations available for download on bandcamp on a pay-what-you-want basis (suggested donation: £5)

I also talk a little bit about forgiveness, which is not one of the brahmaviharas, but I feel is equally important and can also be cultivated through meditation.

The course is free so you have absolutely nothing to lose.

Who this course is for:

  • anyone interested in using meditation to grow in different directions.

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