Learning to Swim
Wise understanding of the true nature of impermanence is akin to learning to swim in the ocean’s ever changing waves. *Please note: technical difficulties throughout this podcast. We are working on it.*
Category Archives: Mindfulness
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.
Our Good Friend Sati
Last week we looked at Bhikkhu Analayo’s understanding of sati or mindfulness as a good friend always available to us. This week, we come back to this with a personal reflection or contemplation practice for examining– what do I do when seeking to be “mindful?” Right away from the moment of waking up in the … Continue reading Our Good Friend Sati
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.
Deepening Our Understanding of Mindfulness
This sharing draws from teachings of Andrew Olendzki’s lovely short article, What’s In A Word, Sati, from Tricycle and Bhikku Analayo’s book, Satipatthana Meditation, both of which make clear that our usual understanding of the word mindfulness is inadequate for opening the true radical transformative potential inherent in the opening of a “mindful” mind. (Please … Continue reading Deepening Our Understanding of Mindfulness
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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On Not Being a Rock in Winter
Classical Zen Story shared by Tara Brach in Radical Acceptance: An old woman had supported a monk for twenty years, letting him live in a hut on her land. After all this time she figured the monk, now a man in the prime of life, must have attained some degree of enlightenment. So she decided … Continue reading On Not Being a Rock in Winter
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