Meditation – the 5th perfection

Meditation – the 5th perfection

What does it take to reach a powerful level of meditation?  Hopefully these past few weeks of discussion have helped you delve deeper into this topic, and to delve deeper into your own practice. This week I want to discuss how we get into these deep states of...
Supercharge your meditation practice

Supercharge your meditation practice

We’ve now covered quite a few topics from discipline, generosity and giving, to ethics and morality – and all of these are really about stopping us from living a disturbed life.  So in this blog and in next Tuesday’s morning meditation session we...
Rules and morality

Rules and morality

http://skillfulmind.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/No-video-description...-fdown.net-3.mp4   I did another Facebook live video this week, and the topic I wanted to discuss was that of rules and morality.   What is good and what is bad, and being able to abide...
Perfection of Patience

Perfection of Patience

http://skillfulmind.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/No-video-description...-fdown.net-2.mp4   As another week comes to a close, some of us in Australia are coming to the end of our time in lockdown, while others are bracing for another couple of weeks with...
Befriending Distraction: Parable of two monks

Befriending Distraction: Parable of two monks

In todays blog we are going to discuss distractions in the mind. And what’s more, todays video is actually a live recording of one of my recent retreats  in Adelaide. So not only will you get to understand how distractions work in the mind but you will also get a...