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The Mindfulness in Daily Life (MIDL) Meditation System is a systematic Buddhist Insight Meditation practice based on the Satipatthana Sutta, that has been designed for daily life.
It uses a foundation of the development of tranquility meditation (samatha) for insight into reality (vipassana).
MIDL is divided into 12 Meditation Masteries that are developed by training in 52 Meditation Skills in daily seated meditation. This allows you to systematically develop skill in Theravada Buddhist Insight Meditation in daily life, at your own pace, adjusting it to your life circumstances.
MIDL is also a play on words that points towards the middle balance, or ‘Middle Way’ (MIDL Way) as revealed in the first talk given by the Buddha (SN 56:11).
The MIDL meditator seeks to find the middle path by neither suppressing or avoiding any experience but rather by softening into and unifying within the experience itself.
This path leads to the fading of attraction and aversion towards pleasant and unpleasant feeling and a seamless integration of meditation into daily life.
Meditation Skills 1-16
You begin by developing skill in softening and samadhi (unified attention) by following systematic training in mindfulness of breathing & jhana in a way that weakens the 16 Meditative Hindrances in seated meditation and daily life (samatha-vipassana).
This is done in three tiers of training in mindfulness of breathing:
Sukha Vedana-Jhana
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Stage 1: Overcome the Tendency Towards Restlessness
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Stage 1: Overcome the Tendency Towards Dullness
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Meditation Skills 17-27
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Meditation Skills 28-39
Deconditioning:
Conditioning:
Summary:
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Meditation Skills 40-43
Meditation Skills 44-49
Meditation Skills 50-52
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