Meditation resources

Support materials for those learning our core meditation techniques

Home practice

Week 1 Mindfulness

• 3 minutes in the senses
• 13 minute breath-based body scan

Pick one thing you could bring continuity of awareness to in your life this week. For example: keeping track of your keys, your pen, your phone, how you intend to use your time. Then see if you can maintain awareness of this 'object'. Notice every time you lose track and simply begin again with an intention of maintaining continuity of awareness.

Guided meditations

• 3 minute breathing space or mindful pause
• 20 minute mindfulness of breathing
• 40 minute mindfulness of breathing
• 40 minute metta bhavana (cultivation of loving-kindness)
• Body scan

Meditation stages

• a guide to the four stages of the mindfulness of breathing
• a guide to the five stages of the metta bhavana (cultivation of loving-kindness)

Simple ideas for common challenges

• a body-based approach to common hindrances

Posture

• a guide to posture and sitting well with the things you likely have at home

Topics in our 11 week intro to meditation and Buddhism series

1. Who is the Buddha and what is Enlightenment?
2. What is karma?
3. How do we develop more positive mental states?
4. Buddhist ethical training principles
5. A potted history of Buddhism and where the ABC fits in the Buddhist world
6. Creating space for choice: introduction to mindfulness in Buddhism
7. Four doorways into mindfulness
8. What is Reality?
9. What is it we let go of on the Buddhist path?
10. What do we let go into on the Buddhist path?
11. The purpose of ritual and devotion in Buddhist practice