Bringing mindfulness to thoughts and emotions
(Note: the first five minutes of the meditation with instructions for settling into the body sitting and breathing, were not recorded)
In this recording, Shaila Catherine offers detailed instructions in the form of a guided meditation for systematically cultivating sympathetic joy (mudita). The method involves directing attention to beings who occupy a variety of categories, while the meditator reflects on phrases that stimulate an attitude of rejoicing. Mudita is a powerful quality that uproots envy, ends jealously, and overcomes aversion, chronic comparing, and excessive competitiveness.
In this guided meditation, Shaila Catherine highlights the powerful role that concentration plays as we cultivate the awakening factors. The instructions slowly walk through the sequence of Awakening Factors demonstrating how they create the conditions for the next factor in the sequence, and then explores various qualities of the collected mind and choices the meditator may make to further develop the mind once samadhi has been established.
