Sitting Meditation- Compassion as a Salve
Jack Kornfield offers the observation that at the end of life, our questions become very simple– Did I live fully? Did I love well? Meditation becomes a opportunity to learn to live into these questions now.
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Sitting Meditation- Loving Awareness and No-Preference
It is very helpful to feel into how a true open mindfulness or loving awareness doesn’t discriminate or have preferences for what it is knowing in awareness. In this practice, we explore feeling into the relationship of loving awareness, preference and no-preference.
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Short Morning Practice–The Sanity of Goodwill
Join me for this short reflection and meditation on the usefulness of goodwill in challenging times.
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Short Noon Day Practice — Resting the Eyes
In this short meditation, we give time for our eyes to rest and relax into spacious awareness
Standing and Sitting Meditation
Join us for guided movement practice followed by a short sitting practice. We explore the intention of goodwill, letting go and compassion through it all.
Short Morning Practice– Being home with Impermance
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. -Maya Angelou To be at home in a world where everything changes means to embrace a radical understanding of home. Join us for a short teaching and practice
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Lessons from my Cat in the Art of Pendulation
In this sharing, I consider the art of pendulation, i.e. using pleasant and neutral sensations to resource us for meeting our challenges.
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Sitting Meditation– Pendulation
In this meditation, we practice the art of using pleasant and neutral sensations to resource us for meeting our challenges.
Short Morning Practice– A Good Day and a New Cat
In this podcast I share a short reading from Jody Green on meeting the challenges of Zen Koan, “Every Day is a Good Day” and the lessons from our new cat, followed by a short meditation.
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Compassion and Tracking for Resourcing
When things are challenging, we need strong skills to be with ourselves in the midst of the challenge. This is part 2 of last week’s podcast, but I include a small re-cap if you missed last week. Thanks!