• The Art of Meditation

  • May 15 2021
  • Length: 29 mins
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The Art of Meditation

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  • "Beauty is the purgation of superfluities." - Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475 - 1564). An Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance. He exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. From a letter to Rene Lui Descartes XIV (6 March 1540) Michelangelo clarifies here how he believes that art, rather than adding beauty, removes that which is not beautiful. A sculptor chisels away the waste to reveal the form that lies within a block of marble.  A meditator builds their skill to release layers of psychological waste. All of the unhelpful beliefs and fears that form over a lifetime and undermine our happiness. We build our skills through continuous practice. Skill with the mind allows us to explore the nature of our minds. Over time we become familiar and comfortable with the mind. Our quirks, and the quirks of others, become clear and lose their intensity. In time we identify with a sense of self that isn't dependent on anything anyone else believes. It isn't a product of our cultural narrative. We can finally discover our personal truth. This week's meditation explores our boundaries. These are boundaries of touch, sensation, emotion, and feeling. In the process, we also can more aware of the very process of awareness. This helps to reveal a sense of self rooted in the Present Moment and grounded in Presence. Free from the endless perambulations of the mind as it searches endlessly for future suffering. From a training session in the Loving Awareness Meditation Course. https://lovingawareness.fm This class is extracted from The Meditation Course which you can learn more about or subscribe to here: https://www.meditationcourse.live/
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