Stages of Meditation

timeless presence

Seeing that liberates - Vipassana

Vipassana

Seeing that liberates-Vipassana

From birth, and throughout every moment of your life, being is a quiet background presence that’s always with you but that can go unnoticed until it’s directly pointed out. Take a few moments now to feel back through your life and notice how the feeling of being has always been with you. To realize that you are Being is freedom.

Wholeness through Just Being

Anxiety is a necessary part of our path. As we move in the direction of waking up, increasing our tolerance of more and more awareness or open mind, we will inevitably experience anxiety. At some point or another, anybody committed to the spiritual path may find it important to commit to the experience of anxiety as an approximation of an open state of mind. - Bruce Tift

Transforming Anxiety

Celebrating life through contemplating death. Knowing that you are dying, not knowing when, what is important in your life? What do you hold back? Where do you want to turn to at the time of death?

New Year Retreat - Contemplating Death

Sometimes it is difficult for us to connect with a genuinely felt sense of warmth and kindness towards ourselves. In this meditation, you learn a method to strengthen this natural quality within you.

Kindness for yourself - guided meditation

Stage One involves the simple practice of keeping your attention on the breath. This is easier said than done. You will discover that attention is easily captured by a distraction, making you forget that you’re supposed to be paying attention to the breath. Forgetting quickly leads to mind-wandering, which can last a few seconds, several minutes, or the entire meditation session.

Stages of Meditation - Part 1a

The biggest challenge during this Stage is forgetting, but sleepiness often becomes a problem as well.

Stages of Meditation Part 2a

You have overcome gross distractions and strong dullness, but there is a tendency to slip into stable subtle dullness. This makes the breath sensations less vivid and causes peripheral awareness to fade.

Stages of Meditation - Part 4a

Serious Meditation is destabilizing and should lead to an identity crisis. This is not mentioned in the marketing of Well-being Mindfulness courses. It is helpful to have a map of the territory and guidance on how to move through the challenges.

Stages of Meditation 6b - Dark Night of the Soul

Introduction to a series of 8 evenings on Vipassana practice.

Seeing that liberates - Vipassana - Part 1a

Seeing that liberates - Vipassana - Part 1b

A guided meditation into the present moment, connecting with the primordial peace of your own being. Just being here, now, in a place where you have everything you need. 

Resting in timeless presence

Theravada Vipassana is the insight into the three characteristics, anicca dukkha, and anatta. Whatever the meditation object, it is changing, it is not satisfying you, and it is not you. Stephan Pende gives an explanation of how to see dukkha and anatta.

Seeing that liberates - Vipassana - Part 2a

Seeing that liberates - Vipassana - Part 2b

Identifying the mistaken sense of self is an important step to free you from self-limiting projections and habits.

Seeing that liberates - Vipassana - Part 3a

Seeing that liberates - Vipassana - Part 3b

Meditation on Co-dependent arising is one of the main methods to have a deep insight into the nature of reality. Since everything is dependent on everything else, nothing can exist in an independent, separate, autonomous way.

Seeing that liberates - Vipassana - Part 5a

Stephan Wormland, MA in clinical psychology and trained in Gestalt therapy. He has studied and practiced meditation in multiple Buddhist traditions for over 30 years and spent altogether 5 years in meditation retreats. Stephan was a monk in the Tibetan tradition for 11 years and teaches meditation in Buddhist centers in Europe.

Seeing that liberates - Vipassana - Part 5a

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