Ep225: Forgiveness Meditation - David Johnson 2
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- In this episode I am once again joined by David Johnson, a meditation teacher and author of ‘A Path to Nibbana’.
In this episode David describes the forgiveness meditation technique that he teaches to his students who encounter emotional blocks in meditation practice.
David recalls his own journey with forgiveness, including his experience forgiving a toxic boss, and shares his students’ accounts using this technique.
David also explains the links between keeping Buddhist precepts and a peaceful mind, and details other benefits of a moral life, including increase in personal power and acquisition of siddhi.
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Topics Include:
00:00 - Intro
00:47 - Dealing with emotional blocks in meditation
01:47 - Metta vs breath as meditation object
02:37 - Advantages of metta meditation
03:16 - Emotional and psychological blocks to feeling good
04:20 - When the 6R’s aren’t enough
05:55 - The process of forgiveness
07:32 - How to forgive
08:47 - Don’t dredge the mind
10:09 - How David forgave his toxic boss
13:19 - Anecdotes of students’ forgiveness
17:51 - The power of the habit of forgiveness
19:27 - Phrases to unlock forgiveness
20:38 - A common metta meditation mistake
24:11 - The Buddha’s forgiveness method
25:19 - Meditation dosage
27:17 - David on psychiatry and therapy
31:22 - When to stop the technique
32:55 - Will forgiveness make me a pushover?
35:44 - Developing personal power
36:33 - David’s fears
37:30 - The root of fear
43:01 - Why keep the precepts
42:22 - How negative karma ripens
44:55 - Benefits of following the precepts
48:33 - Investing virtue for positive rewards
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Previous episode with David Johnson:
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- www.dhammasukha.org/david-joh...
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Music ‘Deva Dasi’ by Steve James 
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Really needed this reminder now. Loving kindness and compassion take up most of the transformation practice, but forgiveness gets to some dark corners we are oblivious to.
Wonderful talk by David per-usual. Doing forgiveness mediation is absolutely the most powerful practice I’ve ever done. No words can describe how cathartic and impactful it has been on my relationships with my family, friends, and to my own emotions. Sadhu, Sadhu, Sadhu David!
David explains it very well and his book is excellent. I got blocked day 3 of a TWIM retreat and the metta wasn't flowing so well and this forgiveness meditation helped me a lot. I thought I had nothing to forgive but it was more like whack-a-mole...so many situations and people came up once I started. I had some issues with 'forgiveness with Catholic upbringing but that's not what this is. Forgive away! Thanks, @guruviking and @david for such a wonderful interview.
Great information, makes complete sense.
Awesome 🙏🏻
Sorry to comment off topic here... but my dream discussion would be with Delson Armstrong & Tom Campbell. I believe merging Tom's consciousness models with the insights of Dependent Origination would serve a great benefit.
If you're not familiar with Tom Campbell, I would highly recommend him. I started with TWIM in 2015 and continue to practice - I believe it is the purest and most effective form of what the Buddha taught. Dependent Origination is where it is at. Having said that, Tom Campbell's teaching took me some time to fully understand and appreciate, which is really for those interested in a cohesive and all encompassing scientific model of 'existence', also for those interested in exploring the 'outer reaches', eg the various planes of existence, meeting entities, accessing the "akashic records", reading Karma, remote viewing, healing, etc, everything that in Buddhism would be considered "The Powers". Which, in Tom's words, would be described simply as switching datastreams, accessing the database, and using one's intent.
Please consider looking into Tom Campbell if that sounds interesting to you. Appreciate all of your interviews and thank you.
That sounds like a great idea! Get them together, Steve!
Is there a Tom Campbell resource you would recommend?
Such a good one: short, clear, practical, and makes so much sense 🙏
Really appreciate the practical and simple yet profound practice explained.
great theme
I am scheduled for a 4 day retreat at DMSC in late November 2023. There may be some spots still open. DMSC normally does 9-10 day retreats.
Really looking forward to it. Seems like I didn't really get anywhere with the breath as an object, but I have been using TWIM and have seen some progress.
I just did a 10 day online retreat with them and I feel like Im a complete different person. Its mind blowing...metta is the way!
How do you forgive yourself for not having any intention to stop a behavior which you judge as being negative?
Really loved the first part of the talk and can see the forgiveness as an extremely useful tool. I just cannot personally see how the use of it in today’s world gels with the world view expressed in the second part. Really found it difficult to listen to and seemed like the baby had been thrown out with the bathwater when expressing the need to just stop being sinful (essentially). Came across as more fundamentalist compared to the understanding of trauma and complex mental health we are starting to develop….slowly.