Contemplating perception: Recent Episodes
John Newton
Guided meditations and reflections.
A space to explore the poetics of meditative inquiry on and off the cushion.
Adding to the categories of metta practice - the loved one, self, the neutral person, and the person with whom there is some difficulty.
A short reflection on the potential significance of developing the whole body awareness approach in practice.
This guided meditation offers a soulful way to relate to stillness. Good for when there is in an inner pressure or when practice is too burdened with 'shoulds'
A guided meditation on opening to the sense of being supported by the practices of others, and the unseen suffering of beings near and far.
This guided meditation is a practice of offering metta to someone we don't know very well or have little connection to.
We tend to construct and exaggerate differences in sense perception, in self and not self. Practicing listening can dissolve these distinctions, which often take a lot of energy and stress to maintain.
This guided meditation offers a way to deepen the practice of moving attention throughout the body.