Interactive Saṅgha

Here are some questions we might take into dyads or group discussion during our Tuesday saṅgha. They were brainstormed, unedited, and in no particular order. Please comment or add others for us to consider:

• Three traditional training questions about your recent meditation:

      - What's new and interesting?

      - What's difficult?

      - What wonderings do you have?

• What insights/realizations have come up for you recently? (Very small ones count!)

      – What happens in the mind-heart in your worst sittings _____

      - What happens during your best sittings _______

• How does the mind-heart feel about your practice this week?

• What did you notice in your meditation this evening?

• What's the quality of the mind-heart right now?

      - Having said that, what is the quality now?

      - And now?

• How do you know if you are doing it (meditation) right (skillfully)?

• What shadow elements might be affecting your practice?

      - What do you do with those?

• Talk to me about death.

• What's your favorite hindrance (or what hindrance favors you the most)?

• Please fill in: "If only ______, my meditation would be better."
     – Or: Please fill in: "If it weren't for _________, my meditation would be everything I can imagine wanting it to be."

• My meditation gives me everything I'd ever wanted … except …

• Fear and Love questions:

      – Tell me about fear?

      – What's fear's image of who you are?

      – What's the heart's image of who you are?

      – What's the heart's image of me?

• Who are you?

• If you were wiser than you are, what advice would you offer yourself?

      … would you offer me?

• If you did nothing but work on effective practices for the next 400 years, what would you be like at the end of that time?