Viveka

Anapanasati - Meditation on the Breath

Idhellan Dupe

Going for Refuge

11 Many mindfulness practices; two routes to samatha; four foundations of mindfulness; Pureland on body & mind; making connections

01 Integration; personal experience of mindfulness; what is happening right now; Viveka's history of meditation; Lama Surya Das; San Francisco & the Dharma

04 Tips on staying with the breath (Contemplations 1 and 2)

02 3 images for integration; silted stream, iceberg, vast boundless ocean; Viveka as electrical engineer; reason, emotion & faith in the Dharma

10 Nothing to be afraid of - the vast ocean; fear of our mind; Suzuki Roshi on water and waves - Big Mind; Milarepa's Song of a Yogi's Joy; letting the mind go; conditioning

08 The tip of the iceberg; investment in the superficial; Sangharakshita on the non-rational; fear, the mind and the European colonial worldview

05 Being in the world with your practice; working with diversity; cultural pluralism; appreciating difference; not forcing a Buddhist self