Sitting Meditation- Seeing into Basic Goodness, Part 1
Based on the meditation from Yongey Mingur Rinpoche, this is a practice with seeing into our basic goodness.
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Sitting Meditation- “Meditation Is Love”
“Don’t meditate to fix yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, do it as an act of love, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way there is no longer any need for the subtle aggression of self-improvement, for the endless guilt of not doing enough. It offers the possibility … Continue reading Sitting Meditation- “Meditation Is Love”
Sitting Meditation- Grounding And Opening
There is a normal ebb and flow in all parts of life, including our meditation practice. We can learn to move with the naturalness of opening and closing by allowing body, breath, and senses to be a home anchor as needed.
Siting Meditation- Meeting Ourselves with Compassion and Understanding [7.17.24]
This meditation uses a phrase for practice from Thich Nhat Hanh: May I have compassion and understanding for myself just as I am.
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Sitting Meditation- Circling [7.10.24]
This meditation includes the poem Victor, from the beautiful book, The First Free Women: Original Poems Inspired by the Early Buddhist Nuns, by Matty Weingast: Victor: When everyone else was meditating, I’d be outside circling in the hall. Finally I went to confess. I’m hopeless, I said. The elder nun smiled. Just keep … Continue reading Sitting Meditation- Circling [7.10.24]
Sitting Meditation- An Act of Love
“Don’t meditate to fix yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, do it as an act of love, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way there is no longer any need for the subtle aggression of self-improvement, for the endless guilt of not doing enough. It offers the possibility … Continue reading Sitting Meditation- An Act of Love
Sitting Meditation- Coming Home With The Breath
This is a meditation in using noting practice, skillfully to acknowledge validate and return home again as needed.
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Sitting Meditation- Contemplation Taking Us to Love
This practice explores how noting helps us get more clear as to what’s really here. What one takes in by contemplation, one pours out in love. –Meister Eckhart The Way It Is, Lynn Ungar One morning you might wake up to realize that the knot in your stomach had loosened itself and slipped away, … Continue reading Sitting Meditation- Contemplation Taking Us to Love
Sitting Meditation- Welcoming the moment
How we meet the moment of waking back up, makes all the difference in our practice. This city meditation is an opportunity to deeply explore that moment of re-awakening.
Sitting Meditation- Four Remembrances [5.22.24]
This meditation draws from Tara Brach, teaching on four remembrances for practice: Pausing, saying yes to life, turning towards love, resting in awareness. What It Is It is nonsense says reason It is what it is says love It is calamity says calculation It is nothing but pain says fear It is hopeless says insight … Continue reading Sitting Meditation- Four Remembrances [5.22.24]