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
Richard Dixey holds a
Ph.D. from London University, an M.A. with distinction in the history and
philosophy of science from London University, and a B.A. Hons from Oxford. He
was director of the Bioelectronic Research Unit at St Bartholomew's hospital in
London for fourteen years before founding and becoming the Chief Executive of
Phytopharm PLC, a biotechnology company listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Richard has been a student of Buddhism since 1972 and has traveled extensively
in the Himalayas, India and South East Asia. He is currently an advisor to the
Khyentse Foundation.
