Online Insight Meditation Course

You continue to practice daily mindfulness of breathing and the first four jhana. 

At the end of each meditation, you develop insight by following a set of methodical investigations with an emphasis on perceiving anatta (not-self).

Insight Purpose: Weaken identification with five aggregates.

Introduction:

• Insight Instructions

Investigations:

• Insight 01: Flickering of Attention.
• Insight 02: The Four Elements.
• Insight 03: Borders of Perception.
• Insight 04: Observe Attention Move.
• Insight 05: Where Attention Moves.
• Insight 06: Experience of Thinking.

You continue to practice daily mindfulness of breathing and the first four jhana. 

At the end of each meditation, you develop insight by following a set of methodical investigations with an emphasis on perceiving idappaccayatā (specific conditionality).

Insight Purpose: Weaken identification with conditioned processes.

Introduction:

• Idappaccayatā: Specific Conditionality.

Investigations:

• Insight 07: Thinking Patterns.
• Insight 08: Past, Present & Future.
• Insight 09: Pleasant Feeling.
• Insight 10: Unpleasant Feeling.
• Insight 11: Specific Conditionality.

You continue to practice daily mindfulness of breathing and the first four jhana. 

With deep insight into anatta and specific conditionality, you are now prepared to intentionally trigger and strip vedana from all thoughts, memories.

Insight Purpose: Understand and strip worldly vedana from the mind.

Advanced Softening:

These five Softening Doors make up the complete MIDL Softening Into skill used to decondition habitual defensive patterns from the mind. 

• Insight 12: Abandoning Intention.
• Insight 13: Re-engaging Diaphragm.
• Insight 14: Lengthening Out-breath.
• Insight 15: Relaxing the Eyelids.
• Insight 16: Relaxing Frontal Lobes.

Deconditioning:

Caution: Meditation Skill 34 is a high level MIDL technique for stripping back vedana and emotions from memories. Only approach this skill with proper training or guidance. 

• Insight 17: Learn to Decondition Mind.
• Insight 18: Deconditioning the Mind.

Your daily meditation switches to developing jhana using the pleasant vedana of wholesome qualities as your object of meditation.

This gives you the opportunity to cultivate and establish (condition) them as a natural tendency within your mind as the second phase of weakening gross attraction & aversion. 

Insight Purpose: Understand and condition spiritual vedana (feeling tone) within the mind.

Meditations:

• Insight 19: Conditioning Loving Kindness.
• Insight 20: Conditioning Compassion.
• Insight 21: Conditioning Joy for Others.
• Insight 22: Conditioning Forgiveness.
• Insight 23: Conditioning Gratitude.

(Stillness meditation)

Your daily meditation now swaps to the cultivation of nirvikalpa samadhi based stillness in preparation for indrya samvara (calming of habitual going out of attention to the sense fields). 

As piti-sukha arises based the development of nirvikalpa samadhi, you develop skill in accessing the first four sukha-vedana jhana without a defined object for attention. 

Insight Purpose: Weaken tendencies of aversion.

Introduction:

• Cultivating Stillness

Meditations:

• Insight 24: Softening Into Stillness.
• Insight 25: Developing Body Stillness.
• Insight 26: Developing Mind Stillness.
• Insight 27: Experience Stillness of Mind.

You continue to practice daily nirvikalpa samadhi towards disentangling the habitual 'going out' and grasping of awareness with the five sense fields.

As nirvikalpa samadhi develops, disenchantment towards sensory experiencing matures into onlooking equanimity and nonreactivity in all aspects of life.

Insight Purpose: Weaken tendencies of attraction.

Meditations:

• Insight 28: Mindfulness of Awareness.
• Insight 29: Mindfulness of Seeing.
• Insight 30: Mindfulness of Hearing.
• Insight 31: Mindfulness of Smelling.
• Insight 32: Mindfulness of Tasting.
• Insight 33: Mindfulness of Touching.

You continue to practice daily nirvikalpa samadhi now taking awareness as an object. You enter the final stage of observing habitual entanglement of awareness with itself and deconditioning this tendency. This creates the conditions for the habitual tendency of awareness to grasp on itself to cease.

Insight Purpose: Weaken tendencies of delusion of self.

Meditations:

• Insight 34: Mindfulness of Knowing 1.
• Insight 35: Mindfulness of Knowing 2.