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elib.tech Exclusive… sharing elsewhere will result in being banned!GB Thread = Meditation (Vipassana) 12 Month / 24 CD Course24 CDs with over 17 hours of dharma teachings, practices and guided meditations in twelve sequential lessons taught by Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein This is THE Meditation program, highly sought after, and used by most serious practitioners (Eben Pagan / David DeAngelo uses this EXACT program for his meditation, and it comes highly recommended from many other individuals.)24 CDs, Spanning Over 17 Hours, 1 CD is Lecture, The Next is a Guided Meditation… Simply Push Play When you seek to live a spiritual life, what matters most is not what you know, but the actions you take. How can you best embody the spiritual principles that uplift you and those around you? On Insight Meditation, you will learn one of the world’s great contemplative practices – as it was taught by the Buddha himself – and then passed “candle to candle” for 2,500 years. Based on the curriculum developed at the Insight Meditation Society’s retreat center in Barre, Massachusetts, this audio correspondence course is presented by IMS cofounders Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein, who are among the West’s most respected meditation teachers. Students will learn with a qualified instructor how to establish and sustain a daily meditation practice. As each lesson unfolds, students learn to see past the illusion of life’s obstacles and move toward an awakened mind-state – the true freedom we seek to achieve.Now you can experience this rich and sacred retreat environment in your own home, with these same masterful instructors. Insight Meditation presents: 18 hours of classical teachings, practices, and meditations. an 88-page workbook with interactive exercises, resources, articles, and much more. One-on-one guidance from your personal instructor.From great mystics to those in chronic pain; from political leaders to spiritual seekers; from bus drivers to CEOs – those who have developed a personal meditation practice confirm its power to enrich every aspect of daily life. For most of us who have tried meditation, the question has always been: “How do I keep going?” Insight Meditation offers the answer to this questionLESSON 1: The insight tradition; how happiness arises; the power of mindfulness; the five precepts for ethical living; six aspects of correct posture; eight breathing exercises.LESSON 2: “Bare attention” and awareness in the present moment; working with thoughts during practice; traditional walking meditation — “mindfulness in motion”; seven walking meditations.LESSON 3: The five hindrances to mindfulness; understanding attachment to desire and aversion; “working with Pain.”LESSON 4: Working with sleepiness, restlessness, and doubt; the antidotes to the hindrances; Mara, the tempter; four exercises for working with hindrances.LESSON 5: Concepts and reality; myths of time, place, and self; six exercises for mindful eating; the roots of mind; “wrong view.”LESSON 6: The truth of suffering; painful experience, change, and conditionality; seven exercises for working with emotional states; the Four Noble Truths.LESSON 7: How we create delusion; “wise attention” and freedom from delusion; “clear seeing”; working with thoughts and images; exercises for recognizing delusion.LESSON 8: The awakened mind; karma defined; intention and action; self and karma; the Four Heavenly Abodes; the Six Realms of Existence; seven exercises for working with intention.LESSON 9: Equanimity as a spiritual force; conditioning, pleasure, and pain; the Eight Vicissitudes; the Six Sense Doors; eight exercises for working with pleasant and unpleasant feelings.LESSON 10: Saddha; the nature of faith and wisdom; the five spiritual powers; testing faith yourself; “Big Mind” exercise.LESSON 11: Metta, or lovingkindness; distortion of “self” and “other”; strength without anger; benefits of lovingkindness; eight metta exercises.LESSON 12: Bringing meditative awareness into your everyday life; lessons of daily sitting; the three fields of training; eight exercises for taking practice to the world.If you always wanted to sit a long meditation retreat but were prevented by life’s circumstances, here is a way to bring the teachings and practice right into your own home.An Online ReviewI purchased this meditation kit over a year ago. Previous to this course I could not get a good sense of direction in terms of meditation. I read some books, and got bits and pieces here and there.This course is complete. It has everything you need to meditate… except something to sit on. The tapes are great. They start of really basic and gradually build on one another. One side of a tape is a teaching and the second is a guided meditation. It really makes you feel like you are there sitting with the instructor. I did an average of one course a month.This is NOT something you can do in one weekend. This is a lengthy but very rewarding experience. You need to spend an average of 45 minutes a day on this. To complete this course I meditated 3-5 times a week, 45 minutes at a time for over a year.The course really changed my life. I continue to meditate today. The way you look at the world will never be the same. I am more relaxed, I can control my emotions a lot easier, I fall asleep within 2 minutes or less etc. etc.I highly recommend this course to anyone looking for a little peace in this crazy world.