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MIDL Mindfulness Meditation

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Meditation in Daily Life

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Kindness

Condition Wholesome Qualities

It is time to cultivate wholesome qualities

  • Back: Step 6: Decondition Habitual Patterns


NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH CHARACTERISTICS

  • PANNA: Wisdom
  • SILA: Harmony
  • SAMADHI: Unification 


=SILA and SAMADHI:

The purpose of intentionally cultivating wholesome qualities of heart is to develop the characteristic of Sila and Samadhi to bring harmony and unification to the citta: heart/mind.


MASTERY 6: UNIFICATION OF HEART

Once defensive tendencies are weak in you (experienced as a natural fading), you then bring these defensive tendencies to an end, by conditioning wholesome qualities such as loving kindness, compassion, generosity, gratitude etc, that are revealed as being weak in you.

Skillset 9: Develop Skill in Cultivating

  • Meditation Skill 39: Loving Kindness: Loved One
  • Meditation Skill 40: Loving Kindness: Difficult Person
  • Meditation Skill 41: Loving Kindness: Pervasive
  • Meditation Skill 42: Cultivate Skill in Forgiveness
  • Meditation Skill 43: Cultivate Skill in Gratitude 


Back: Step 7: Condition Wholesome Qualities

Next Path 1 & 2: Step 8: Disentangle Your Awareness

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Disentangle Your Awareness

It is time to disentangle awareness from sensory fields.

  • Back: Step 7: Condition Wholesome Qualities


NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH CHARACTERISTICS

  • PANNA: Wisdom
  • SILA: Harmony
  • SAMADHI: Unification


=PANNA, SILA and SAMADHI: 

From this point on the MIDL path turns towards cultivation of Indrya Samavara (calming of the senses). This is a very subtle practice of noticing the habitual 'going out' of attention towards the six sense fields and relaxing the effort beneath that 'going out'. Softening of the habitual 'going out' results in the gradual disentanglement of awareness form the six sensoury fields and at the deepest level the disentanglement of the habitual entanglement of awareness with itself.

  • Indrya Samvara develops insight and wisdom into the habitual entanglement with the six sense fields so is considered panna. 
  • Indrya Samvara uses softening to relax the effort below habitual entanglement with the six sense fields, bringing harmony to the citta (heart/mind), so is considered as sila.
  • Indrya Samvara cultivates nirvikalpa samadhi (objectless unification) bringing unification to the heart/mind so is considered as samadhi.


MASTERY 7: DISENTANGLED AWARENESS

Once harmony has been created, then you focus on nirvikalpa samadhi (objectless unification) as your main practice. Your aim is to train awareness to disentangle from the six sensory fields by observing the habitual 'going out' of your attention towards the sensory fields and softening/relaxing that engagement.

Skillset 10: Develop Skill in Disentangling

  • Meditation Skill 44: Remember Awareness
  • Meditation Skill 45: Mindfulness of Seeing
  • Meditation Skill 46: Mindfulness of Hearing
  • Meditation Skill 47: Mindfulness of Smelling
  • Meditation Skill 48: Mindfulness of Tasting
  • Meditation Skill 49: Mindfulness of Touching
  • Meditation Skill 50: Mindfulness of Knowing 1
  • Meditation Skill 51: Mindfulness of Knowing 2

MASTERY 8: THE DECONDITIONED MIND

Skillset 11: Develop Skill in Disentangling Awareness

  • Meditation Skill 52: Calming all Mental Activity


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