Meditation

Recommended initial and concluding procedures for each training session as well as for each exercise.

These sets of methods and exercises are an extension of the training program Balanced Sensitivity and help us integrate the various aspects of our lives harmoniously.

We need to exert effort to rid ourselves of all obstacles to concentration, such as flightiness and mental dullness, during whatever meditations we may be doing.

It is useful to not look at the mind as a “thing” but as mental activity, occurring moment to moment and which ​​can be non-conceptual or conceptual.

Gungthang Rinpoche’s text warns us that before the Dharma practice of tomorrow takes place, the death of today may come sooner.

The Balanced Sensitivity program and its exercises aim to serve as a bridge between traditional Buddhist thinking and methods and the emotional problems we all experience and conceptualize in a Western way.

Although there are several variations in ways to practice the four close placements of mindfulness, here we examine the Theravada methods as taught by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu.

Think before acting or speaking compulsively, to prevent later feeling regret.

To reach enlightenment and benefit all others, we need to regard everyone as equal and instead of cherishing only ourselves, cherish all others as our primary concern.

A guideline to the basic approaches, skills, procedures and orders of the practices that will lead to our progress.