RESOURCES
Below are various resources:
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Awareness Exercise
The Awareness Exercise was introduced in the School more than sixty years ago. Its great strength is its simplicity. With faithful practice, it can steady the mind, open the heart, and bring the whole being into the present moment.
Introduction to Meditation
Scientific evidence about the physiological, mental and emotional benefits of meditation speaks for itself. Once limited to the clinical treatment of anxiety and stress, meditation is now applied to the fields of neuro-plasticity, emotional intelligence and elite sports.
Joie de Vivre
The wonder of joy is that its lightest touch releases energy… Joy is the living experience of happiness. It is not different from happiness. It’s simply being happy. In this talk, we take some time to wonder about happiness and joy.
Knower’s Arc
The wonder of knowledge is that when it is ordinary, it informs; when it is new, it reforms; when it is true, it transforms; and when it is wrong, it deforms. What is this knowledge and what is the best part of it?
Mindful
Mindfulness is not simply of the mind. It draws its transformative power from the heart. Mindfulness can bring love and knowledge into a living relationship, and the fruit of their union is wisdom.
Off a Duck’s Back
Sometimes we need to let things roll off us like water rolls off a duck’s back. Just as ducks have a natural insulation against their environment, human beings have the power of detachment.
Turn, Turn, Turn
All things turn in endless cycles of movement, turning and returning to turn again. But what of stillness? All the strength of a wheel lies in its still centre. Without it, a wheel can’t turn. In this talk, we consider the power of stillness.
What’s Love Got to do With It?
Love is like a feeling, but beyond feeling, a means and an end, a noun and a verb, the destination and the way. In this talk, we will be led by various traditions in the consideration of love in all of its power.
Rabbits & Pinecones
Numbers are used constantly in almost every field of human endeavour and are a particularly useful tool in commerce, science and engineering, but is this the full purpose of numbers? Let’s discover the great significance of numbers.
The Flight from Reason
Postmodernist ideas are pervasive in society and have now made their way into many areas of the education system. Does it have anything going for it? Is it worth inflicting on our children?
Well I’ll be a Monkey’s Uncle
An examination of evolution in cosmology and the manifestation of organic life – the how of things that appear to be and then appear something else.
Meditation
William Whiting, who passed away in December 2019, was for nearly 50 years the leader of the School of Meditation. He gave two talks at the School of Philosophy and Economic Science in London.