Egalitarian Dharma · scripts

The meditations

Every guided and analytical meditation from the Saturday sessions, in order, with the verses each one works from. They were written to be read aloud to a room, with the pauses marked, and you are welcome to use them that way.

  1. Guided meditation: motivation Opening · Session 1: the homage
  2. Analytical meditation on Homage Analytical · Session 1: the homage Homage and statement of purpose
  3. The Nudge (four immeasurables) Opening · Session 2: verses 1 to 4
  4. Analytical meditation on Verse 1, Verse 2, Verse 3, Verse 4 Analytical · Session 2: verses 1 to 4 Precious human life; study, reflect, meditate; Leave your homeland; Rely on solitude; Impermanence; give up this life's concerns
  5. The opening meditation Opening · Session 3: verses 5 to 7
  6. Analytical meditation on Verse 5, Verse 6, Verse 7 Analytical · Session 3: verses 5 to 7 Give up bad friends; Cherish the spiritual teacher; Take refuge in the Three Jewels
  7. Analytical meditation on Verse 8, Verse 9, Verse 10 Analytical · Session 4: verses 8 to 10 Lesser capacity: karma and the lower realms; Middling capacity: dewdrop pleasures, changeless liberation; Great capacity: our mothers; arousing bodhicitta
  8. A short tonglen practice Opening · Session 5: verses 11 to 13
  9. Analytical meditation on Verse 11, Verse 12, Verse 13 Analytical · Session 5: verses 11 to 13 Exchanging self and other; When robbed: dedicate everything; When harmed though innocent: take on their suffering
  10. Analytical meditation on Verse 14, Verse 15, Verse 16, Verse 17 Analytical · Session 6: verses 14 to 17 When slandered: praise their qualities; When publicly humiliated: see a teacher; When betrayed by one you raised: love them more; When treated with contempt: honor them as your teacher
  11. Analytical meditation on Verse 18, Verse 19, Verse 20, Verse 21 Analytical · Session 7: verses 18 to 21 When destitute and ill: take on all beings' suffering; When prosperous and praised: no conceit; The real enemy: subdue your own anger; Sense pleasures: salt water
  12. Analytical meditation on Verse 22, Verse 23, Verse 24 Analytical · Session 8: verses 22 to 24 Appearances are mind; mind is beyond fabrication; Attractive things: summer rainbows; Adversity: the death of a child in a dream
  13. Analytical meditation on Verse 25, Verse 26, Verse 27, Verse 28 Analytical · Session 9: verses 25 to 28 Generosity; Discipline; Patience; Diligence

How to use one

Read it slowly, and treat the bracketed pauses as real time: a minute of quiet is longer than it looks on the page. The analytical meditations assume the group has just read the verses they draw on, so read those first, or paraphrase them. Everything in the scripts is a suggestion, and the people in your room are allowed to let any of it go by.