Guided Meditations and Dharma Sharings

Guided meditations and short dharma teachings

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“It is probable that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community, a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. This may be the most important thing we can do for the survival of the earth.”

                                                                                     ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

 

Recordings:

12.16.2024:  Guided Meditation – Rest here oh wandering puppy mind

 

12.9.2024:  Guided Meditation – Meeting the body and heart/mind with the welcoming energy of both/and

 

12.2.2024:  Brief compassionate body scan that you can incorporate into daily life

 

12.2.2024:  Body Scan meditation

 

11.4.2024:  Cultivating the Grateful Heart

 

Each week consists of an approximately 30-minute guided meditation and a short dharma talk.  

December 14, 2022:  Coming Home to the Present – 3 breaths at a time – Guided Meditation

 

December 7, 2022:  Mindfully Meeting the Holidays – Part 2; Includes a compassionate body scan meditation

 

November 16, 2022:  Mindfully Meeting the Holidays – Gratitude

 

November 9, 2022:  Support for wise action – Grounded heartfulness in the face of uncertainy

 

November 2, 2022:  Support for wise action – Equanimity in advance of the elections

 

October 26, 2022:  Support for wise action – Strong back, soft belly, opening heart

 

October 19. 2022:  Series on the Five Remembrances – The Messengers in Relationship

 

October 5, 2022:  Series on the Five Remembrances – Actions

 

September 7, 2022:  Series on the Five Remembrances – Loss

 

August 31, 2022:  Series on the Five Remembrances – Death Pt 1 – guided meditation & first half of talk

August 31, 2022:  Series on the Five Remembrances – Death Pt 1 – guided meditation & second half of talk

 

August 24, 2022:  Series on the Five Remembrances – Illness

 

August 10, 2022:  Series on the Five Remembrances – Aging

 

August 3, 2022:  Series on the Five Remembrances – Introduction

 

June 22, 2022:  Series on the Three Characteristics – Anicca – Impermanence

 

June 8, 2022:  Series on the Three Characteristics – Dukkha – Unsatisfactoriness

 

June 1, 2022:  Series on the Three Characteristics – An overview

 

May 25, 2022:  Living in this Tender World – Cultivating the Resilient Heart

 

May 4, 2022:  Hindrances Series – Wakefulness and well-being – noticing the freedom of the absence of the hindrances

 

April 27, 2022:  Hindrances Series – Bringing RAIN to the hindrances

 

April 20, 2022:  Hindrances Series – Doubt

 

April 13, 2022:  Hindrances Series – Restlessness

 

April 6, 2022:  Hindrances Series – Sloth and Torpor

 

March 30, 2022:  Guided Meditation – A Spacious Pause (not part of Hindrances Series)

 

March 23, 2022:  Hindrances Series – Ill Will

 

March 16, 2022:  Hindrances Series – Desire

 

March 9, 2022:  Hindrances Series – Opening to the habits of mind

 

February 16, 2022:  Stabilizing through the sense gates

 

February 9, 2022:  Mountain meditation – Accessing steadiness

 

February 2, 2022:  Coming home to the moment

 

December 8, 2021:  Series on Belonging – Engaged Kindness

 

December 1 , 2021:  Series on Belonging  – Shared Circle of Generosity and Gratitude

 

November 17, 2021:  Series on Belonging  – Shared Circle of Vulnerability

 

November 10, 2021:  Series on Belonging  – Sharing a Symphony of Silence – guided meditation only (group Q&A not recorded)

 

October 28, 2021:  Series on Belonging  – The Caring  Heart

 

October 20, 2021:  Series on Belonging  – Elemental belonging: Space element

 

October 6, 2021:  Series on Belonging  – Elemental belonging: Air element

 

September 29, 2021:  Series on Belonging  – Elemental belonging: Fire element

 

September 22, 2021:  Series on Belonging  – Elemental belonging: Water element

 

September 15, 2021:  Series on Belonging – Elemental belonging: Earth element

 

September 8, 2021:  Mindfulness of difficult mind states

 

September 1, 2021:  Mindfully working with anxiety

 

August  25, 2021:  Being Here

 

August 4, 2021:  Heavenly Messengers Series – The Fifth Recollection – Action

 

July 21, 2021:  Heavenly Messengers Series – The Fourth Recollection

 

July 7, 2021:  Heavenly Messengers Series – The Third Recollection – Death

 

June 30, 2021:  Heavenly Messengers Series – The Beauty in Aging

 

June 16, 2021:  Heavenly Messengers Series – Using RAIN to work with discomfort in the body

 

June 9, 2021:  Heavenly Messengers Series – Illness part 2 – working with “pain” – sensations meditation & a short talk

 

June 2, 2021:  Heavenly Messengers Series – Illness part 1 – body scan meditation & a short talk

 

May 12, 2021:  Heavenly Messengers Series – Aging part 2

 

May 5, 2021:  Heavenly Messengers Series – The body as a gateway to working with aging

 

April 28, 2021:  Impermanence & the Heavenly Messengers

 

April 21, 2021:  The three characteristics

 

April 14, 2021:  The two wings of practice

 

April 7, 2021:  Guided Meditation – Hearing meditation as a grounding practice; Talk – Compassionately Widening the View

 

March 31, 2021:  Embodied Equanimity – metta and trauma in the face of loss and trauma

 

March 24, 2021:  Short talk – Grief and metta

March 24, 2021:  Guided meditation – Watering grief with metta

 

March 17, 2021:  Embodied Equanimity Series:  Equanimity & joy as supports for metta

 

March 3, 2021:  Embodied Equanimity Series:  Gratitude as a Gateway to Joy

 

February 24, 2021: Embodied Equanimity Series:  The Joy of Presence

 

February 17, 2021:  Embodied Equanimity Series:  Joy Revisited

 

February 10, 2021:  Embodied Equanimity:  Both/And

 

February 3, 2021:  Embodied Equanimity & Vedana

 

January 27, 2021:  Embodied Equanimity & the Five Hindrances

 

January 13, 2021:  The breath as a support to equanimity

 

January 6, 2021:  The Brahma Viharas – Equanimity

 

December 30, 2020:  The Brahma Viharas – Compassion (Karuna)

 

December 23, 2020:  The Brahma Viharas – Sympathetic Joy (Mudita)

 

December 16, 2020:  The Brahma Viharas – Lovingkindness (Metta)

 

December 2, 2020:  Letting Go/Letting In

 

November 25, 2020:  Gratitude

 

November 18, 2020:  Mindfulness of Thoughts

 

November 11, 2020:  The Generosity of our Attention

 

November 4, 2020:  Tending to the heart in uncertain times

 

October 28, 2020:  Resting here, now

 

October 21, 2020:  Befriending Anxiety

 

October 14, 2020:  The Paramis – Equanimity

 

October 7, 2020:  The Paramis – kindness (metta)

 

September 30, 2020:  The Paramis – Truth & Resolve

 

September 23, 2020:  The Paramis – Patience

 

September 16, 2020:  The Paramis – Wisdom & Effort

 

September 9, 2020:  The Paramis – Sila (ethical conduct) and Renunciation

 

August 26, 2020:  The Paramis – Generosity

 

August 19, 2020:  Gratitude

 

August 5, 2020:  Wise speech

 

July 22, 2020:  The 4th Precept – Loving speech & Deep listening

 

July 15, 2020:  The 5th Precept – Mindful consumption

 

July 8, 2020:  The 2nd Precept – Not stealing/Generosity

 

July 1, 2020: The 1st Precept – Non-harming

 

June 17, 2020:  Absorptive Listening

 

June 3, 2020:  Clarity & Compassion in Turbulent Times

 

May 27, 2020:  Petting the Moment – 30 minute guided practice & a short talk on relaxed presence with what is here.

 

May 22, 2020:  Connection with Nature

 

May 13, 2020:  Connection in the time of COVID

 

April 22, 2020:  Earth Day – 30 minute guided earth meditation & a short talk

 

April 15, 2020:  Widening the View