We hope you can join us for another Friday night of meditation at Camberwell.

Following on with the theme from last month we will look at TRAINING the MIND and JUDGEMENT.

Here are some concepts around judgment and its influence in our life:

To judge is to separate.
To judge is to hurt yourself.
To judge is to strengthen the ego.
Judge others and you shall be judged.
Practice non-judgement.
Today I will judge nothing, this will help me become still.

"Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances." Wayne Dyer

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." Mother Teresa

Group Meditation

Camberwell Community Centre
Time: 7.30pm to 9.30pm Friday May 29th
Where: 405 Camberwell Rd. Camberwell
Cost: $10. Supper provided

Please feel free to invite a friend who may need it and please indicate your intention to attend by clicking here.

Program

Silent meditation
Guided meditation

Three meditation experiences we will use to consider our judgmental nature:

What am I thinking? - noting the content of your thoughts when you meditate on the breath will help you discover judgement patterns in your thinking.
Do I have an attitude? - one's attitude towards anyone or anything is usually one of either attraction, aversion or indifference. Using this practice leads to attitude (judgement) awareness.
Conscious Listening - this meditation helps you listen to others with your full attention

GUIDED MEDITATION ... an emotional freedom technique - freeing one-self from self judgement

TRAINING THE MIND

Here is a perspective by the world-renowned Buddhist teacher from Tibet, Sogyal Rinpoche; author of the highly acclaimed The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.

So everything is a question of training and the power of habit.

Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we're honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries.

Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that with time, patience, discipline and the right training, the mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity.

"Training" the mind does not in any way mean forcibly subjugating or brainwashing the mind.

To train the mind is first to see directly and concretely how the mind functions, a knowledge that you derive from personal experience in meditation practice.

Then you use that understanding to tame the mind and work with it skilfully, to make it more and more pliable, so that you can become master of your mind and employ it to its fullest and most beneficial end.

Sogyal Rinpoche

Start your mind training now by joining the course that is designed to engage you in a regular and effective practice of meditation - More than Meditation.

Click here for details on the MORE THAN MEDITATION course .

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Kind regards,
Bill and Kati Patterson
Email: billp@mbsolutions.com.au