Upcoming Webinars

Awareness of Thinking, Mindfulness of the Body Are these two orientations to meditation opposites, contradictory, incompatible? Or are they two sides of the same coin? I will discuss how to integrate a practice of mindfulness of the body and recollective awareness of thoughts and emotions in this 90-minute webinar. This …

Upcoming Webinars

These 2 webinars will be on the topic of working with projections in Recollective Awareness Meditation. There will be a 30-minute meditation sitting in the middle of each webinar. Please register in advance for these webinars. A link to the Adobe Connect site for the webinar will be sent out …

The Outflows

When I first encountered the Pali word “asava” over three decades ago, it was routinely translated as “influx” or “canker, sore.” As an influx, it was how views, sense desires, becoming, and ignorance flow into our mind stream and affect how we perceive and act. Picturing the four asavas as …

Satipatthana Reading

Jason Siff reads his translation of the Satipatthana Sutta, the Buddha’s discourse on establishing awareness, along with a short intro.

History

Recollective Awareness Meditation comes out of Jason Siff’s meditation teaching beginning in 1988 when he was a Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka. It gradually evolved in the 1990s after Jason left the Buddhist Order and moved to Los Angeles. By the time he founded the Skillful Meditation Project in 1996, …

Redesign

When I was a monk in Sri Lanka, I developed a meditation practice that differed from ones that I had been taught in the permission it gave to students to be more honest with themselves and by proving itself to be more compatible with the Buddha’s teachings. During the nearly …

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