This book is based on the weekly Mindfulness Meditation sessions conducted online over Zoom in 2020 and 2021.
Each session follows this format:
Each session starts with the review of last week’s meditation,
Then 10 minutes of mindfulness meditation,
A talk by Richard,
A video from a variety of sources,
A final 15 minutes of mindfulness,
Then a closing chant.
You are invited to use a process like this as you work through the book.
This is not a book to read. Rather, the best use is to take each session into your direct experience. There is an ancient Indian teaching that tells how to do this:
Read, or listen to the teaching,
Reflect. Consider what has been said, deeply. Compare and contrast it with your own experience. If this is not your experience, ask yourself, “Why not?”
Deeply meditate on what you read, take it in as experiential knowledge. You want the experience of it, not just the mental understanding of it.
VIDEOS
Links to videos are throughout this book. To get the most from this book, watch each video.