Sitting Meditation- Recognizing Gift Moments
In this version of a loving-kindness practice, we pay particular attention to how we meet our moments of distraction.
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Sitting Meditation- Compassionate Resonating with Breath
One useful way to settle into a practice is to use the breath to attune or “resonate” compassionately with whatever is present in the body/mind/heart.
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Sitting Meditation- Changes on a Mountain
A mountain meditation is a beautiful opportunity to explore a sense of a calm abiding mountain strength unmoved by the the endless natural changes of passing seasons, years and eons of time. It helps teach us about tapping into that kind of mountain calm abiding strength for flowing with the endless natural changes of our … Continue reading Sitting Meditation- Changes on a Mountain
Sitting Meditation: Flow of Our Being
We tend to think of ourselves as solid separate entities but just a bit of investigation into our true nature we find we are part – physically, not metaphorically – of a flow of changing elements related to everything else around.
Sitting Meditation- Knowing Our Belonging
Being aware of the physical elements of Earth, Air, Sun and Water in the body can be an opening to seeing into a more intimate relationship with ourselves and all around us that is naturally wise and compassionate.
Sitting Meditation- A Feminine Quality of Mindfulness
Drawing from a teaching from Bhikku Analayo, respected Buddhist scholar and monk, on a feminine nature of mindfulness, this meditation is an opportunity to explore mindfulness as an open, understanding receptivity to whatever arises: Right away from the moment of waking up in the morning our good friend sati can already be there, as if … Continue reading Sitting Meditation- A Feminine Quality of Mindfulness
Sitting Meditation-What It Is
Drawing from the poem, What It Is, this meditation explores noticing the judgmental mind and its story, as well as the possibility of settling back into a radical wise accepting love. “It is nonsense says reason It is what it is says love It is calamity says calculation It is nothing but pain says fear … Continue reading Sitting Meditation-What It Is
Sitting Meditation- Earthworm Meditation [5.7.25]
“..To every grain that enters: ‘Welcome.’ To every parting mote: ‘Be blessed.’” From: Earthworms, poem by Lynn Ungar, www.lynnungar.com Please note: no accompanying talk.
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Sitting Meditation- Beyond Success and Failure
What happens when we totally let go of an evaluation of our meditation as a “success or failure,” or it “working” for me or not “working” for me? In opening to the dance of energy in this human life, we can’t help but learn a wise compassion to what it means to be human and … Continue reading Sitting Meditation- Beyond Success and Failure
Sitting Meditation- Freedom Found Through the Human Heart
Working with insight into change as a means of freedom through a human heart.
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