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Hi! My name is Michael Turner. I am a pre-monastic early Buddhist ācariya and a full-time Buddhist anagārika.  I work with dedicated Buddhists practitioners to help them attain measurable progress toward Nibbāna. This special kind of one-on-one training isn't readily available to lay practitioners. So, if you may be interested in joining our growing student community to make veritable progress toward Nibbāna, please visit my training page to learn more; or contact me to discuss becoming a Buddhist trainee today.

How to Do Analytical Meditation and Mettā Meditation Correctly
Duration: 00:11:16, Posted: February 2022
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Context: 
A student reached out to me via email for something quick, and being in-between student sessions, I had a few minutes to hop onto a brief video call to answer his question. Here is the recording of that off-the-cuff, momentary interaction.
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The Student Question: 
​"I think I know how to do analytical meditation, but I want clarification on how to do it. I've been inspired to use mettā for the contemplation, but what is the interplay between contemplating and resting in silence? I feel like resting in silence may be a part of it."
Summary:
  • Sadly, most people are doing mettā meditation (i.e., loving-kindness meditation) ineffectively. Why is this?  Because there are very few people who are actually teaching others how to do it correctly, and many of them are hidden away in Buddhist monasteries.
  • Many people also have questions about what analytical meditation is and how to do the many contemplative meditation practices which exist. 
  • In this brief dharma talk, I instruct on some critical points for doing mettā meditation correctly that few teachers ever talk about. 
    • Clear instructions on how to actually generate and cultivate genuine and powerful feelings of lovingkindness, appreciation, gratitude, and compassion while doing mettā meditation.
    • How mettā meditation and analytical meditation (i.e., contemplative meditation) differ from one another.
    • How to do analytical meditation correctly to gain the most value out of our time on the cushion.

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Anagārika Michael Turner Buddhist Teacher Philosopher, Dharma Coach, Meditation Instructor, Business Leader, Sales Trainer, and Mentor
Michael Turner is a pre-monastic ariya-puggala and a full-time Buddhist anagārika; and he is also a deeply accomplished streamentry mentor and applied-dharma teacher. He emphasises and teaches the practical application of the Buddha's teachings in our everyday lives to overcome our human problems that stand in the way of making measurable progress toward Buddhist enlightenment and he is particularly adept at explaining them in ways that can be easily understood and practiced by Western Buddhists. He has been meditating and cultivating the views and techniques that generate indestructible resilience, inner-strength, and direct experience for almost 30 years and has helped countless numbers of students and peers enhance and course-correct their practice to make veritable progress along the path toward Nibbāna.


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