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kwamee introduced me to the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, where a sort of Buddhism is practiced. I've been going to their Monday night 45 minute sitting and talk about once a month.
I've had a sort of a rollercoastery few days. Tonight was no exception. For the first 30 minutes of the sitting I was too excited to concentrate. For the last 15 minutes I was half-dozing.
Part of the reason I like Buddhism is that there are a lot of lists. :) The talk was by Gil Fronsdal on the Seven Factors of Awakening.
1. Awareness / Mindfulness
2. Investigation
3. Energy
4. Joy
5. Relaxation / tranquility
6. Concentration
7. Equanimity
The main focus was on equanimity. I've felt that once or twice, I think. It's pretty cool.
I really like this meditation center because it is welcoming in a completely low-key way. And I really like Gil Fronsdal because he has a way of encouraging the consideration of ethical issues and meditation practices without any hints of "you should". I'm pretty allergic to hearing "you should" from other people, and most of the religious/spiritual organizations and people I've known over the years use it more than I can tolerate.
kwamee introduced me to the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, where a sort of Buddhism is practiced. I've been going to their Monday night 45 minute sitting and talk about once a month. I've had a sort of a rollercoastery few days. Tonight was no exception. For the first 30 minutes of the sitting I was too excited to concentrate. For the last 15 minutes I was half-dozing.
Part of the reason I like Buddhism is that there are a lot of lists. :) The talk was by Gil Fronsdal on the Seven Factors of Awakening.
1. Awareness / Mindfulness
2. Investigation
3. Energy
4. Joy
5. Relaxation / tranquility
6. Concentration
7. Equanimity
The main focus was on equanimity. I've felt that once or twice, I think. It's pretty cool.
I really like this meditation center because it is welcoming in a completely low-key way. And I really like Gil Fronsdal because he has a way of encouraging the consideration of ethical issues and meditation practices without any hints of "you should". I'm pretty allergic to hearing "you should" from other people, and most of the religious/spiritual organizations and people I've known over the years use it more than I can tolerate.
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Date: 26 Feb 2008 04:49 pm (UTC)Aww, that's too bad.
The equanimity talk will show up as a podcast sometime in the next few days.
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Date: 26 Feb 2008 05:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 26 Feb 2008 10:16 pm (UTC)http://www.audiodharma.org/tech-help.html
They cover all of the different operating systems, except Linux.
I use firefox on Linux, so I can right-click to save as mp3. Then I can either play it on my laptop with something like xmms or mplayer, or download it to my mp3 player.
Things get a bit more complicated if you don't usually play mp3s on your Linux system.
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Date: 26 Feb 2008 07:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 26 Feb 2008 10:17 pm (UTC)http://www.audiodharma.org/talks-gil.html
The last talk is not available yet.