Week 1
Venerable Nitho explains what meditation can help us to achieve. Venerable uses his own life experience to help explain why he meditates and what we can achieve by practising.
Week 2
Venerable Nitho expands on the ground work laid in week 1. Venerable gives us real world examples of how remaining calm and composed can benefit both the meditator and those around us, including wildlife.
Week 3
Venerable Nitho expands on the ground work laid in weeks 1 and 2. Venerable gives us real world examples of how remaining calm and composed can benefit both the meditator and those around us. The focus this week is breath meditation with [for beginners], an added focus point. This helps tremendously when learning to meditate.
Week 4
The final week of a 4 week beginners meditation class with Venerable Nitho. Venerable expands on the ground work laid in weeks 1, 2 and 3 with the focus for the last week being Metta Meditation.
What is Metta Meditation?
Mettā (Pali) or maitrī (Sanskrit) means benevolence, loving-kindness, friendliness, amity, friendship, good will, kindness, and active interest in others. It is the first of the four sublime states (Brahmavihāras) and one of the ten pāramīs of the Theravāda school of Buddhism.
Venerable gives us real world examples of Metta Meditation to apply not only to the world and those around us, but to ourselves as well. If we are happy, chances are that those around us will feel that and respond in kind.
Armadale Meditation Group Teachings are available for downloading from BSWA Podcast.