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Page 1: What is Meditation? Main sources of Insight 1. discussion 2. inquiry 3. focussed attention 4. meditation 5. mindful living 6. reflection 7. listening

Insight Meditation

Page 2: What is Meditation? Main sources of Insight 1. discussion 2. inquiry 3. focussed attention 4. meditation 5. mindful living 6. reflection 7. listening

What is Meditation?

Page 3: What is Meditation? Main sources of Insight 1. discussion 2. inquiry 3. focussed attention 4. meditation 5. mindful living 6. reflection 7. listening

INSIGHT ? Clear or deep perception/ understanding of a

situation Grasping the inner nature of things intuitively …………… Wisdom based on direct experience of human

realm.

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Knowledge vs Insight ….A genuine insight frees the mind up, opens the heart & transforms perceptions.……..affecting the very cells of our being.

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Main sources of Insight

1. discussion2. inquiry3. focussed attention 4. meditation5. mindful living6. reflection7. listening8. reading9. nature10. receptivity 11. speaking 12. spontaneous arising

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• Gaining insight into the Nature of Human Reality …….. Direct experience of “the way things are”

• Two aspects : calm the mind through sustained attention, and insight through reflection

The objective of Insight meditation

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The tool : Mindfulness – non judgemental awareness

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This is what we will practice during

the workshop:Strengthening the

Mindfulness of whatever is happening

In the body-mind complex