Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. Amy Miller introduces Counting the Breaths, a foundational meditation technique that calms the mind and reduces anxiety regardless of circumstance. After learning the seven-point meditation posture, practitioners are guided to watch their natural breath and anchor their awareness there, drawing the mind back whenever it wanders. Miller emphasises that this practice is accessible anywhere—while driving, working, or in any emotional state. For newcomers especially, breath meditation often provides the first vivid encounter with how active and circus-like the untrained mind actually is, offering both humility and motivation to continue practice.
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Teacher: Amy Miller
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Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
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So now that we’ve been introduced to the seven point meditation posture, let’s try some meditation. This meditation can be found as handout number two, Counting the Breaths. This is a fundamental meditation that can calm your mind, help to subdue anxiety in any place that you are because we are always breathing. So you can just stop all the mental conceptualization and just bring your awareness to your breath. Whether you’re driving, working, laughing, being angry, whatever’s happening, we can learn to be mindful to bring the mind back to the breath.
In the beginning, when we watch the breath and try to keep the mind focused on the breath, For newcomers, you get your first glimpse, often, of your mind and how much like a circus it can be, with a multitude of activity circling through it.