Dear Friends,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As we continue exploring the practice of abandoning unwholesome states, I would like to offer a recording of a meditation, talk, and Q&R with Shaila Catherine, titled Beyond Distraction: Five Practical Ways to Focus the Mind<\/em>. The first 30-ish minutes is a guided meditation that focuses on cultivating mindfulness and meeting thinking with interest, for the purposes of discerning what is helpful and what is harmful, or useful or not useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you’re so inclined, continue with to listen to the subsequent talk. Shaila walks through practical approaches that align with the teachings in Two Kinds of Thought<\/a><\/em> (MN19) and The Removal of Distracting Thoughts<\/a><\/em> (MN20). Shaila’s guidance is both gentle and precise, making these methods accessible and effective for daily meditation practice and life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In your practice, I invite you to notice which methods resonate most with you. After practicing, I do appreciate reading your reflections, on topics such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n May this practice support us in cultivating greater clarity, balance, and ease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With good wishes, Dear Friends, As we continue exploring the practice of abandoning unwholesome states, I would like to offer a recording of a meditation, talk, and Q&R with Shaila Catherine, titled Beyond Distraction: Five Practical Ways to Focus the Mind.https:\/\/sangha.live\/dharma-library\/beyond-distraction-five-practical-ways-to-focus-the-mind\/ The first 30-ish minutes is a guided meditation that focuses on cultivating mindfulness and meeting thinking with interest, for the\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[372],"tags":[334,157,136],"class_list":["post-2162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jan-2025","tag-effort","tag-energy","tag-shaila-catherine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2164,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Andrea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"