This meditation helps you distinguish between physical pain and psychological suffering more clearly. Then you can shed the needless psychological suffering caused by delusional, reactive stories in the mind, and reduce your suffering.
“Being Mindful and Skillful with Physical Pain (Part 1 of 2)” Talk and Reference Material
Investigating Sensations Meditation - 30 min
“Effortless Effort and the State of Flow ” Discussion
Bare awareness meditation with an exploration of intentions
“Effortless effort and the state of flow” talk and reference materials
Meet your intentions with this bare awareness meditation
Bare awareness meditation
The intention of bare awareness meditation is to be the watcher of your thoughts, emotions, and sensations, and whatever else arises that your awareness becomes aware of in the present moment. Bare awareness meditation is identical to mindfulness in daily life and thus helps you practice this vital skill.
“Skillfully relating to the future: Letting go of fear,” talk and summary
Half-day meditation training: Unlock your inner peace, joy, love, and wisdom
Working with the Slogan “Breathe”
“Grounding ourselves in the present moment,” discussion and summary
In this discussion we considered several interesting topics: How and why should I consider my thoughts, emotions, and body to be impersonal? What are the three stages of progress that happen as we become mindful of delusional thoughts and their emotional disturbances? What is the difference between discernment and judgment, and how does knowing the difference allow me to be more at peace with the present moment? These and other subjects are covered in this discussion.
Four ways to be present meditation
This is an insight meditation with four different anchors: sensations of breath, sensations of body, listening to silence, and seeing space. All of these anchors are ones that you can put some of your awareness in throughout your day to help keep you grounded in the present moment. This meditation allows you to explore each one.
Relax and release mindfulness meditation
This is an insight meditation with the anchor being the sensations of the body. It emphasizes having the courage to feel, love, and accept all feelings, be they pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral. By accepting them and seeing the good in them, we can experience them in a relaxed, calm, and objective manner. By experiencing emotions in a relaxed, calm, and objective manner, the emotions are able to freely move and be released from the body instead of becoming trapped emotional energy.
“Relax and release: Letting go of the past” talk and reference notes
If you experience grief, regret, resentment, anger, hopelessness, sadness, fear, and anxiety, or longing for better days you may be living in the past. If you have limiting stories about what you cannot do, achieve, or tolerate, you may be living in the past. Learn how to let go of the past so you can live with peace, contentment, creativity, and freedom.
“Living in the Now: All Forms are Impermanent and Impersonal” Talk and Reference Notes
Guided Breath Meditation, Intermediate, 30 min
Use the Slogan “Be Here Now,” to Have a Happier, More Joyful Life
“Being Generous with the Present Moment” Talk and Summary
This talk looks at what delusions keep us locked in stress, struggle, and denial of what Life is asking of us in the present moment, so that we can be more calm, creative, flexible, and skillful with what is unfolding from moment-to-moment. In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, we also ask what, if anything, Life is asking from us in terms of responding to climate change.
