Recommended Reading: Everything About Meditation - Oh Kang-nam (Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion, University of Regina, Canada)
Opening remarks _ My way, coolly
First Breath _ Between Deficiency and Wholeness
Two Breaths _ The Me I Know, The Me I Don't Know
Three Breaths - Which Meditation Is Right for Me?
Four breaths _ sit with dignity
Five Breaths - What Do I Desire?
Six Breaths _ I am the 'work' I create.
Seven Breaths _ Beyond Habits to Insight
Eight Breaths _ Where is my 'thin spot'?
Nine Breaths _ Music, an exclamation point that overturns tragedy
Ten Breaths _ Separating Senses and Emotions
Eleven Breaths - 'One Sentence' That Raises Me Up
Twelve Breaths _ The Me That I Create
Appendix _ My meditation story; After attending the class “Meditation and Practice”
Closing remarks _ Little by little, more freely and beautifully
Reader's Note _ “For me, meditation is ( ).”
My Companion Meditation 100-Day Practice Sheet
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Meditation is ultimately a practice to live as ‘my true self.’
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Why is it 'companion'?
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