Reflective Meditation: cultivating kindness and curiosity in the Buddha’s company welcomes you into a lively, open minded, often humorous, and astoundingly insightful conversation between the founders of reflective meditation.
You may find yourself laughing out loud or feeling a great sense of relief as Linda Modaro and Nelly Kaufer lightheartedly articulate a broad, roomy, and inclusive path for turning inward, reflecting, and using the language of experience to cultivate a deeply rewarding and satisfying meditation practice.
Amidst the banter, you will receive clear instructions and guidance on how to develop your own reflective meditation practice, as well as a sensitive and intelligent overview of basic early Buddhist teachings.
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Preface
Introduction
- Voices and conversations with our community
1: The basics
- Getting started — a conversation between us
- What was exposed
- Power — a conversation between us
- Power is complex
- Feministic
- Conditionality — a conversation between us
- Why is this kinder?
2: Learning to meditate
- Learning to meditate from what comes up in meditation, learning to live from what comes up in life — a conversation between us
- Radical and mysterious
- Language of experience
- All experience is a story
- A conversation in the language of experience
- Culture — a conversation between us
3: Features of reflective meditation
- Choice and experimentation — a conversation between us
- What a paradox!
- High ideals with friendliness — a conversation between us
- The variety of meditative experiences and calm states
- Creativity — a conversation between us
- Unconventional creativity
- Can’t we just memorise the Buddhist teachings? — a conversation between us
4: Discovering the Buddhist teachings in experience
- How do we find the teachings (the dharma) in our own experience?
- Your experience matters — a conversation between us
- Writing as a path to greater awareness
- Journaling — a conversation between us
- Speaking about meditative experiences
- Listening, reacting and responding — a conversation between us
— The teachings in context
— How is reflective meditation different from psychotherapy? — a conversation between us — Distinctions and overlaps
— A student’s experience — a conversation between us
— More distinctions and overlaps
5: The teachings, the dharma
— A global pandemic: the three marks/characteristics of existence revealed
— Conceits — a conversation between u
— Papañca — a conversation between us
— Poison
— Ennobling — a conversation between us
— Ennobling path
— Middle way
— The four-cornered argument
— Between the extremes in all these teachings
6: What develops in reflective meditation
— Brahmavihāras
— positive qualities and sublime emotions
— Factors of awakening — ingredients for wisdom
— Refuge
Appendix
— Basic meditation instructions
— Ethical statements
— Four ennoblings — truths, tasks, commitments, undertakings
An unconventional glossary of Buddhist qualities
— Or, the meanderings of Nelly Kaufer’s mind
Acknowledgements
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Winton Higgins has been a dharma practitioner, and a teacher of insight meditation since 1995. He has contributed to the development of a secular Buddhism internationally and is a senior teacher for Sydney Insight Meditators.