This self-paced course contains an introduction to calmness meditation, the basis for insight into the experience. All of us experience periods in which we seem to lose control, almost as if external events require us to respond in various ways. Calmness meditation is a key life skill here, allowing more control and flexibility in our range of responses. This is the part one subject of a series of eight half-hour classes, entitled ‘Welcome to a Calm Place’, in which a set of simple three-minute daily exercises introduce the state of calm. In learning to manage our habit of reacting reflexively to external events, we find a more spacious way of living and create a platform to generate a more creative way of life
Lesson 1: Introducing Concentration with a Candle
Lesson 2: Distinguishing Vitaka from Vicara with Bell
Lesson 3: Working with the Breath
Lesson 4: White Ball
Lesson 5: Traveling with the Ball
Lesson 6: White and Red Balls
Lesson 7: Finding the Center
Lesson 8: Sitting with a Smile
Three Minutes a Day: A Fourteen-Week Course to Learn Meditation and Transform Your Life by Richard Dixey
