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
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...
Create bliss as you walk
Wouldn’t it be great if you could create bliss while you walk? During our last advanced retreat, we did just that. Read on to find out how or, if you’d prefer, watch the video below of my livestream I did this week on our Facebook page, on creating bliss...
A few words from one of our Meditation Leaders
This week one of our wonderful SkillfulMIND Leaders has taken the time to write a short piece for us on how she has been coping with COVID19 and the isolation it has brought. Joanna Mason is from the North East of the United Kingdom and has been continuing to run...
MINUTE MEDITATIONS
Body Sway Meditation Coming to your senses – Hearing Coming to your senses – Feeling Coming to your senses – Sight To get the true benefits of meditation, it’s not enough to just treat it as a 10 or 15 minute escape from the world every...
Demons and Dragons
The following story is one of my favorite parables. It’s about a famous Tibetan meditator who lived many hundreds of years ago. He was called Milarepa. Milarepa spent three months every year meditating in a cave in the Himalayan mountains. He was sent up there...
3 FACTORS OF SUCCESS
Are you feeling a sense of discontentment? Many people spend far too much time living without a sense of direction, without knowing where they want their lives to go. It has taken me some time to get myself, and SkillfulMIND to where we are today, but through...
A meditation on Universal Love
Before we begin the meditation, we must consider and resolve two things. The first is, what is the definition of love? Every person has a different answer to this, but for the purposes of this meditation, we will consider love to be the state where we...