6 Week Meditation Challenge: Live
Great, you're on the 6 week meditation challenge, let's go!
You can join the challenge any time.
Looking for instructions on the Mindfulness of Breathing or the Metta Bhavana meditations?
We’ve put together a reminder for you here.
Mindfulness of Breathing
Metta Bhavana
Bring each person from the different stages together with yourself and see if you can cultivate equal metta toward all of you. Then expand this ‘field’ of metta outward to eventually include all beings. If you find it helpful you can use the phrases ‘May all beings be well and happy’, ‘May they be free from suffering’, ‘ May they find satisfaction and make progress in their lives’.
Here's how to prepare for the challenge

✓ Watch Subhadramati introducing her short meditation videos for the six weeks
✓ Watch Maitreyabandhu exploring the deeper meaning of why we need to meditate.

✓ Listen to Subhadramati introducing her guided audio meditations on the mindfulness of breathing
✓ Listen to Vidyadaka introducing his guided audio meditations on the metta bhavana

✓ Print out your meditation challenge diary

Week 1
✓ Subadramati gives a short talk on setting up your home meditation
✓ Subadramati on finding stillness in the mindfulness of breathing meditation
✓ Vidyadaka on really noticing how we are during the Metta Bhavana meditation
✓ Maitreyabandhu on how to make your life truly meaningful

Week 2
✓ Subadramati gives a short talk on how to simplify your life
✓ Subadramati on combing through our body with our awareness during the mindfulness of breathing
✓ Vidyadaka on basing the Metta Bhavana practice on the relationships we have to people we are in close proximity to
✓ Maitreyabandhu on ‘Where does meaning and value come from?’

Week 3
✓ Subhadramati gives a short talk on how what we do and say effects our consciousness
✓ Subadramati on finding balanced effort in meditation in the mindfulness of breathing
✓ Vidyadaka on using the Metta of our everyday situations in the Metta Bhavana
✓ Maitreyabandhu on ‘For a truly worthwhile life, energy must come first’

Week 4
✓ Subhadramati gives a short talk on connecting with beauty
✓ Subadramati on working with distraction in the mindfulness of breathing
✓ Vidyadaka on using live examples from your day in the Metta Bhavana
✓ Maitreyabandhu on ‘Life as the adventure: Facing & overcoming the demons’

Week 5
✓ Subhadramati gives a short talk on how to keep turning up to meditation
✓ Subhadramati on imagining the Buddha in the mindfulness of breathing
✓ Vidyadaka on bringing people up close in the Metta Bhavana
✓ Maitreyabandhu on ‘Going beyond convention, unmasking false power’
✓ Subhadramati on contemplating impermanence in the mindfulness of breathing
✓ Vidyadaka on choosing people your going to meet that day to include in the Metta Bhavana