Dear Friends,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yesterday, I shared Christina Feldman’s idea that with mindfulness, we “turn towards” experience, and then with kindness, we can “stand beside” it. (Some of us may remember Jeanne sharing teachings<\/a> on this approach too.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n With this attitude, aversion doesn’t have to go away – wow!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Christina says, “we learn to bring an attitude of kindness to the experience of aversion itself, rather than making aversion into the “other” that we cannot accept.” (p.19)<\/p>\n\n\n\n She uses this lovely phrase, “affectionate curiosity”, which she attributes to Ajahn Sucitto, in approaching aversion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n What does aversion feel like How do we sense it in the body? Can we stand next to it without flinching? How does aversion feel in the mind\/heart? Is there a sense of agitation, tightness, or contractedness in the landscape of aversion?<\/p>page 19<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n When I googled for “affectionate curiosity”, I found a page from a course on Mindfulness Meditation from Audiodharma. They share what the phrase means in the context of investigation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n It comes out of caring about ourselves and others, about this life and about this world. It is not a cold, superficial analysis; it’s affectionate, it’s warm, it’s intimate. We want to bring a quality of openness into our life and fully experience it without without resisting it, without being for or against our experience, without grasping. <\/p>https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/audiodharmacourse.org\/mindfulness-meditation\/week-2-body<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The course link also includes an instruction page on mindfulness of the body, which you might want to make your practice today, with affectionate curiosity for whatever may arise, even if it’s aversion: Do you notice a difference when you practice with this intention of kindness? Feel free to share your reflections on the blog!<\/p>\n\n\n\n With warm wishes, Dear Friends, Yesterday, I shared Christina Feldman’s idea that with mindfulness, we “turn towards” experience, and then with kindness, we can “stand beside” it. (Some of us may remember Jeanne sharing teachings on this approach too.) With this attitude, aversion doesn’t have to go away – wow! Christina says, “we learn to bring an attitude of kindness to\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":[162],"tags":[168,47,137,32,41],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jan-2019","tag-ajahn-sucitto","tag-body","tag-christina-feldman","tag-jeanne-corrigal","tag-metta"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","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=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/audiodharmacourse.org\/mindfulness-meditation\/week-2-body\/practice-instructions-second-week<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Andrea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"