Month: April 2022

As we have seen through the previous meditations guided by Danis Bois, the characteristics that distinguishes Full-Presence Meditation from other forms of meditation is the possibility for some meditators to connect with a slow animation within the body.  In this meditation, Danis Bois revisited and expanded on the standard meditation from last week, in order to accompany meditators to identify and grasp the five key moments when the inner movement may reveal itself to their awareness, which he called the pathway of movement, leading to a sense of warmth and softness. He also highlighted the other pathway of the meditation: a path through the perfect motionlessness of the body leading more specifically to qualities such as stability, serenity and the appeasement of the mind.   These moments appear through the meditators’ connection to the silence, their visual field and their body stillness towards warmer and more peaceful states, leading to the  experience of plenitude. There is a sixth key moment in the meditation, that will be explored in next week’s meditation, which regards the connection to what is greater than we are. How to participate ? Danis Bois, Doctor of Educational Sciences, has been meditating for more than 40 years and …

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Danis Bois introduced the meditation by explaining the nature of a ‘standard meditation’ as being a meditation intended for everyone, that is based on a protocole designed to improve the fundamental skills required in meditation: listening, observing, sensing/feeling towards enriching a different form of thought. This meditation begins a series of meditations to the end of the term, that will be focused on “Meditating for ourselves and with ourselves”: “. With time, I realised that the person I needed most was myself. And that is why I have to take care of myself, always, as it is with me that I am going to spend my whole life. Giorgia Stella. And so, we have to learn to meditate with ourself, with ourself, with our emotions, our thoughts, our attitudes, in short with who we are, if indeed we know ourself a little. In the meditation per say, Danis Bois then used a protocole based on the main supports of the meditation. Meditation Post-meditation Danis Bois used a detailed protocole based on each of the essential supports of the meditation, in order to develop meditators’ abilities to become more present to themselves by: Listening  (through the auditory sense) Listening to the sound atmosphere surrounding …

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Pour illustrer le thème de la méditation, Danis Bois a fait référence à une citation du livre de To illustrate this theme, Danis Bois refered to a quote in Erling Kagge’s book (Silence in the age of noise): I believe it’s possible for everyone to discover this silence within themselves. It is there all the time, even when we are surrounded by constant noise. Erling Kagge These words invite us to investigate silence: what is this place of silence? How can we encounter this silence within that persists regardless of the noise around us? Silence is essential to the practice of meditation and takes on various forms, such as the appeasement of our mind, which comes when we rest, pause, lay down our arms, and take a break from chasing illusions and from endless worries.  Where are you running to? Do you not know that heaven[1] is within you? When there is nothing left, there is only love. [1] ‘Ciel’ in French can be translated as ‘heaven’, or ‘sky’ depending on context Inspired by these quotations Danis Bois unfolded the meditation to bring us towards the silence within, the heaven/sky within and the love within:   To practise silence, we need first to …

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In his introduction, Danis Bois reviewed the various forms of love, before turning to the theme of the week “inner love” seen from a phenomenological perspective and in line with Michel Henry’s notion of ‘auto-affection’ (also called self-affection), enriched by the inner movement.  A life loving force, a loving force that manifests within the fundamental intimacy of the Self with itself at the heart of living matter.  Danis Bois  Having been guided into the meditation through listening, observing and feeling, Danis Bois emphasized our need to be together in our search for our Self and took us on an inner journey towards finding the love that dwells within, the love with no name that makes us ‘feel alive’ in a different way and adds an extra bit of soul to our existence.   The meditation explored our capacity to turn inwards and be touched by ourselves, by the experiences of our inner world – regardless of external factors, by Life: inner movement, engaging our heart, experiencing the warmth conveyed by life that leads to feelings of aliveness, love for ourself, self-affection. Feeling that I feel is already a way to self-affect Life feels itself, experiences itself In other words, the loving …

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We continue on the theme of how we can meditate together despite the distance, which is the main theme of this term, with a meditation that takes us step by step through the various forms of presence towards a Loving Full-Presence. Danis Bois introduced the meditation by explaining the connection between Full-Presence and the experience of the inner movement which is the special feature of Full-Presence Meditation. We then went into the meditation which explored the various kinds of presence at play: presence in its spatial as well as temporal dimensions, self-presence, presence to others, presence to the world and presence to what is greater than we are, leading to Loving Full-Presence, following a step-by-step process: First, being in the intention of experiencing presence by creating an inner space where we are open and available. Establishing the conditions for silence: remaining silent, listening to the silence and inhabiting the silence with our presence : “Presence can then become more of a quality, more relational and more whole”. Exploring presence in its spatial dimension: “It’s first becoming aware that you are physically somewhere in particular, in your body and within yourself: where your body is, you are”. Exploring the temporal dimension …

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