Contemplative Studies Program Blog
In the first foundation of mindfulness the benefit or the hallmark is achievement of stability and vividness or pliancy. In the second, you have response flexibility. In the third, you have meta cognitive awareness and in the fourth, you have what we're calling meta cognitive insight. You can...
The following is a lightly edited transcript from Master Your Becoming.
Sensation is depicted as a dude with an arrow in his eye.
From our mindfulness 'Awareness' workshop, in the second foundation, sensation, there are three types of sensation: pleasant, unpleasant and neutral. The unpleasant,...
One of Tsongkhapa's big critiques is that you cannot arrive at enlightenment without a good start. Don't throw out your conceptual knowledge. Don't throw out your ability to reason your way to enlightenment.
Go back for a second to the image of meditation in our culture. What does it look like?...
In this excerpt from the online course Master Your Becoming, Miles talks about the purpose of recognition and choice.
The importance of awareness is not in any given moment, necessarily to calm down, although that's an amazing thing.
It's not necessarily in the moment to have a different...
