Itipiso

The centuries-old samatha and jhāna meditation techniques of the Yogāvacara, once widespread across Southeast Asia but almost lost in recent history, re-emerged in the UK from the 1960s, preserved and taught within the Samatha Trust (regd. Charity) lay meditation tradition.

This channel includes 6 video talks on the Bojjhaṅgas, the Buddhist factors of enlightenment, a further 6 videos on the Yogāvacara tradition, and 1 video dealing with jhāna and sensory consciousness titled “Gaia consciousness, Covid-19 and climate change”; all recorded during the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown.

A further 4 videos illustrate EEG brain activity as meditators develop the jhānas (based on the 2019 neuroscience study https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00178/full; as well as the book https://www.shambhala.com/jhana-consciousness.html together with supplementary material at https://www.shambhala.com/jhana-eeg/ .  

An audio talk "Now and Then" (2023) is also included.