Reflective Meditation: cultivating kindness and curiosity in the Buddha's company welcomes you into a lively, open minded, often humorous, and astoundingly insightful conversation between the founders of reflective meditation.

You may find yourself laughing out loud or feeling a great sense of relief as Linda Modaro and Nelly Kaufer lightheartedly articulate a broad, roomy, and inclusive path for turning inward, reflecting, and using the language of experience to cultivate a deeply rewarding and satisfying meditation practice.

Amidst the banter, you will receive clear instructions and guidance on how to develop your own reflective meditation practice, as well as a sensitive and intelligent overview of basic early Buddhist teachings.

Preface

Introduction

- Voices and conversations with our community 

1: The basics

- Getting started - a conversation between us 

- What was exposed

- Power - a conversation between us

- Power is complex 

- Feministic

- Conditionality - a conversation between us

- Why is this kinder? 

2: Learning to meditate

- Learning to meditate from what comes up in meditation, learning to live from what comes up in life - a conversation between us 

- Radical and mysterious

- Language of experience

- All experience is a story

- A conversation in the language of experience

- Culture - a conversation between us 

3: Features of reflective meditation

- Choice and experimentation - a conversation between us 

- What a paradox!

- High ideals with friendliness - a conversation between us 

- The variety of meditative experiences and calm states

- Creativity - a conversation between us 

- Unconventional creativity

- Can't we just memorise the Buddhist teachings? - a conversation between us 

4: Discovering the Buddhist teachings in experience

- How do we find the teachings (the dharma) in our own experience? 

- Your experience matters - a conversation between us

- Writing as a path to greater awareness

- Journaling - a conversation between us

- Speaking about meditative experiences 

- Listening, reacting and responding - a conversation between us 

- The teachings in context

- How is reflective meditation different from psychotherapy? - a conversation between us - Distinctions and overlaps

- A student's experience - a conversation between us

- More distinctions and overlaps 

5: The teachings, the dharma

- A global pandemic: the three marks/characteristics of existence revealed 

- Conceits - a conversation between u

- Papañca - a conversation between us

- Poison

- Ennobling - a conversation between us

- Ennobling path 

- Middle way

- The four-cornered argument

- Between the extremes in all these teachings 

6: What develops in reflective meditation

- Brahmavihāras

- positive qualities and sublime emotions

- Factors of awakening - ingredients for wisdom

- Refuge 

Appendix

- Basic meditation instructions

- Ethical statements

- Four ennoblings - truths, tasks, commitments, undertakings 

An unconventional glossary of Buddhist qualities 

- Or, the meanderings of Nelly Kaufer's mind 

Acknowledgements