Well, there is Mindfulness of the Body, walking meditation, standing meditation, sitting meditation, being aware of your postures, Mindfulness of your Breathing, noting of the hindrances, investigating into cause and effect of the hindrances, Compassion and Lovingkindness meditation, examining sensations in the body (it's a big tool box...!), Reflection on Death, Reflection on the different parts of the body, Reflection internally and externally considering Death and impermanence, for example, when you see a corpse or a leaf falling, to contemplate the impermanence and Death, and that my body is also subject to this, being mindful of the Vedana arising from the sense contacts, being aware that they are impermanent, impersonal, and because they are impermanent, they can't really be mine.
Then there is bare noting of the mind states as just being a mind state. This is quite important, some people forget this, because they can't examine the hindrances. They don't know what hindrance it is, so they can't do anything. Yet at that time by just noting the mind state, this is very helpful for just stepping back. (Sounds like I'm doing a Satipattana Sutta. It may take too long!)
Examining of mind objects, examining the hindrances; how they won't arise in the future, when they are present, when they're not present, how the hindrances come to be and how they won't arise in the future. The Five Aggregates; body, consciousness, feeling, perception, and mental formations, understanding how they arise dependent on each other, and that the mind and body is a process of cause and effect. Sense contacts and the problems that arise from this, examining these, and seeing that they arose from the body and the senses coming in contact with their objects. understanding the dependent arising nature of things. Examining Dukkha, the cause of it and the ending of it. Sympathetic Joy meditation, the Five Reflections, contemplation of the Ten Paramis.
Within Compassion and Lovingkindness there is a really big tool box, as you are coming to understand; the D-D method, learning different ways to bring Compassion to oneself, the 1-10-11-1, etc. As we get into Reflections the tool box gets bigger and bigger because we start to develop tools on our own. And there will be more during this retreat. As well, some of you who have had many more interviews with us, we've already given you more tools to work with.
So the tool box is very big!