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• Lovingkindness meditation (continued)
  • Stage 5 - Cultivating metta toward all sentient beings (continued)
    • Families and lovers
    • How can all beings be well when they have to destroy each other to live? (1)
    • Learning more about the fifth stage
    • Metta and the divine (4)
    • The importance of practice
    • Ways of working in the fifth stage
  • Ways of Cultivating Metta - Introduction (2)
    • Being flexible in your approach
    • Cultivating seeds of emotion (3)
    • Using body awareness
    • Using creative imagination
    • Using memories
    • Using words or phrases
• Mantra meditation (8)
  • Buddhist Mantras (48)
    • Amitabha mantra (15)
    • Avalokitesvara mantra (24)
    • Green Tara mantra (20)
    • Manjushri mantra (5)
    • Om shanti shanti shanti (38)
    • Padmasambhava mantra (5)
    • Postcript: About Transcendental Meditation (4)
    • Prajñaparamita mantra (7)
    • Sabbe satta sukhi hontu (7)
    • Shakyamuni mantra (5)
    • Vajrapani mantra (14)
    • White Tara mantra (34)
  • Definition of Mantra Meditation (5)
  • How are mantras written? (3)
  • How does mantra meditation work? (10)
  • How is mantra meditation used? (7)
  • Mantra in Theravadin Buddhism (1)
  • What is a bodhisattva? (10)
• Meditation cushions, mats, stools, and other meditation supplies (4)
• Meditation newsletter archive
• Meditation posture (6)
  • A checklist for your meditation posture (1)
  • Finding the right height of seat
  • Lying down to meditate (3)
  • Meditating in lotus and half-lotus
  • Meditating sitting in a chair (4)
  • Meditating while kneeling, using a cushion or stool (15)
  • Meditating while sitting cross-legged (2)
  • Meditation posture problems: over-arching
  • Meditation posture problems: slumping (4)
  • Meditation Posture: Body Awareness and Relaxation (5)
  • Meditation Posture: Hands (2)
  • Meditation Posture: Head
  • Meditation Posture: Shoulders
  • Notes on burning incense
  • Spotting meditation posture bad habits
  • The angle of your seat (2)
  • The elements of a good meditation posture (9)
  • The importance of meditation posture
• Meditation texts
  • Five reflections for everyone
    • Further thoughts
    • Poetic summary
    • The five facts we should all reflect on
    • Why reflect on these facts?
  • Mindfulness of breathing
    • The anapanasati practice
    • Where the meditation practice can take us
  • On happiness
    • From the Dhammapada (Chapter 15)
  • Selections from the Dhammapada
    • Dhammapada, selection eight
    • Dhammapada, selection nine
    • Selection five
    • Selection four
    • Selection one
    • Selection seven
    • Selection six
    • Selection ten
    • Selection three
    • Selection two
  • The Arrow -- Buddhist attitudes to pleasure and pain
    • A poetic summary
    • Introduction to the sutta
    • Our usual responses to pleasure and pain
    • Wiser responses to pleasure and pain
  • The Buddha's Words on Love (Metta Sutta)
  • True Blessings (The Mangala Sutta)
• Mindfulness of Breathing (10)
  • Introduction
    • "Stage Zero" - the importance of a sense of purpose (3)
    • "Stage Zero" - the importance of preparation (6)
    • "Stage Zero" as a practice
    • Benefits of the practice
    • Coming back to the breath, over and over
    • Overview of the practice
    • The power of making choices (2)
  • Stage 1 (11)
    • Dealing with ups and downs (2)
    • I find I'm controlling my breath
    • Keep getting distracted? (2)
    • More on Stage 1
    • Numbers won't stay put
    • Timing the stages
    • What does this practice do?