Cultivating Shamatha

This guided meditation session begins by reviewing the components of a strong meditation posture through introspection. Then the focus shifts to sensations of breathing. Subtle cues remind you to return to the object. Recorded at Sky Creek Dharma Center in April 2017.

Reviews

Fantastic direction given. I found this to be incredibly difficult because I have a strange eye condition that makes his suggestion about closing eyes (only letting in a little light in and keeping the eyes unfocused) very hard to do for long periods. My left eye is severely limited in vision, but my right eye wanted to be shut all the way. Doing this with both eyes, I hope I can get the hang of it!

I've kind of stopped leaving reviews because most are fine and if I happened to not like one, I wouldn't want to discourage others from trying it out. I liked this one, though. I appreciated that I didn't have to divide my attention between listening to someone talk and observing my breath. It was almost like meditating on my own with occasional, quick reminders to pay attention.

Very precise, higjly effective. I enjoyed this a lot. Full hearted recommendation.

Great lesson on the object of meditation as well as the posture. Thanks.

Purrfect!!! A very good balance (for me) between instruction, demand for strong focus on the object, and gentle reminders along the way.
A very useful tool for the development of the practice. Thank you.