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Talk titled: "Talk Two: Understanding the Heart", given during the event "The Art of Concentration (Samatha Meditation)". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2008-08-09.
Topics covered: insight and cultivation (aspects or wings of the path), hindrances, samadhi, emotions, emotions / mind states, resourcing and cultivating skillful, generosity, goals and effort, working with pain / discomfort, samadhi: developing well-being, happiness, nourishment, metaphors: fire, breath meditation, working with tiredness / dullness, samadhi: put pleasant/nice in connection with blockage/difficulty, breath meditation: breathing through different areas of the body, sensitivity, subtlety, subtlizing of attention and experience, purification / stored psychological material, repression / suppression, self-views, noticing and practicing with, emotions / mind states: different kinds of happiness
Teacher's note on suitability: as we learn to develop concentration in meditation, samatha (calm, tranquility) is also developed, and together these qualities become a powerful means for deep insight and a source of profound well-being. this progressive series of talks, guided meditations and instructions explores in some detail the art of concentration, primarily through different ways of working with the breath and the body to open to deeper and deeper levels of calmness, presence and joy.
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To donate to Rob's foundation, The Hermes Amara Foundation, visit https://hermesamara.org, and click the Donate button. See Rob's Dharma Seed bio (dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/) for a description of this organization and Rob's founding of it.
Original audio: dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11514
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/0108fcee100fd177a55673046522a0bb/76a85e03/2008_0809TalkTwo-UnderstandingtheHeart.pdf
Talk titled: "Talk Two: Understanding the Heart", given during the event "The Art of Concentration (Samatha Meditation)". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2008-08-09.
Topics covered: insight and cultivation (aspects or wings of the path), hindrances, samadhi, emotions, emotions / mind states, resourcing and cultivating skillful, generosity, goals and effort, working with pain / discomfort, samadhi: developing well-being, happiness, nourishment, metaphors: fire, breath meditation, working with tiredness / dullness, samadhi: put pleasant/nice in connection with blockage/difficulty, breath meditation: breathing through different areas of the body, sensitivity, subtlety, subtlizing of attention and experience, purification / stored psychological material, repression / suppression, self-views, noticing and practicing with, emotions / mind states: different kinds of happiness
Teacher's note on suitability: as we learn to develop concentration in meditation, samatha (calm, tranquility) is also developed, and together these qualities become a powerful means for deep insight and a source of profound well-being. this progressive series of talks, guided meditations and instructions explores in some detail the art of concentration, primarily through different ways of working with the breath and the body to open to deeper and deeper levels of calmness, presence and joy.
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To donate to Rob's foundation, The Hermes Amara Foundation, visit https://hermesamara.org, and click the Donate button. See Rob's Dharma Seed bio (dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/) for a description of this organization and Rob's founding of it.
Original audio: dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11514
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/0108fcee100fd177a55673046522a0bb/76a85e03/2008_0809TalkTwo-UnderstandingtheHeart.pdf
