Meditation + Meditation Discussion Club

​capped at 18 attendees. If you are not able to attend, please unregister to make room for someone who will be able to make it :)

​We will start the session off with a brief (~15-20 min meditation; from different traditions like Zen shikantaza, Goenka-style body scanning vipassana, Mahasi-style noting vipassana, metta, shamatha, general open awareness, Western practices) followed by discussion on a piece we either read over the course of the week or we read together in session. Topic areas include: Buddhism, Christian mysticism, pragmatic dharma, meditation research, Sufism, and open to others as well.

​Some examples include:

​Pragmatic dharma books - the Mind Illuminated (Culadasa), Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha (Daniel Ingram), writings by Kenneth Folk and other teachers in this area

​Works from leading meditation researchers on neurobiology and neuropsychology of meditation, adverse spiritual experiences, etc. (Willoughby Britton, researcher at Brown, etc.)

​Excerpts from Visuddhimagga and other seminal Buddhist texts

​The Cloud of Unknowing, the Dark Night of the Soul (St. John of the Cross), works by Thomas Merton, Thomas Keating, other Western/Christian mystical works