Meditation Circle?

[Anonymous]

Hi for someone fairly new to meditation, would I be better doing the Meditation Circle training instead of Tao Te Ching? My focus is practice rather than instruction, and I want to deepen the meditation practice. I do like the instruction part of Tao Te Ching training and I found the first few meditation practices good, however, month 4 is difficult for me and I’ve found not knowing inner dissolving a bit of a blocker on the practice. Any thoughts appreciated. Thanks David

[Anonymous]

Hello David, best wishes… just to chime in, I agree the Tao Te Ching is good material (pretty advanced stuff, and gets more so.. even the first few chapters can be dipped back into many times, later- cycling)..

The Meditation circle is a prelim (how to develop the ability to focus, and what to do.. as sit, so relates to breathing), a different (complementary) branch is the breathing material, and another branch is specifically about the let-go/dissolving (like Tao of Letting-go, etc as the descriptions- this last branch of info would cover the specifics of “what to do” related to say dissolving and such.. even though it may be touched on/introduced in the others.. but won’t be the focus there).
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Above has been written in other posts, and may be implied in the product descriptions, but hopefully that above summary might help(?) and/or add to what you might see in the descriptions on renewed-review…
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you mention your “focus is practice, rather than instruction” and that you want to “deepen your meditation practice” – cool- but what does that mean? -as the what aspects one is “practicing” mean different things… (and thus what you learn/work on developing.)

what (specifically) do you find you are inspired-by and gain from focusing on? (what/where you attention is focused on, or how/where you attention is directed from & changing that.. specifics of breathing or posture, perhaps step-by-points of what to do first/next.. concepts about let-go might seem more philosophical if you haven’t an exper-basis, then they become concrete… so what you have experienced and have touchstones for will affect how you absorb/gain.. from a next practice-teaching

just some thoughts- luck

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