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June 17, 2021
Meditation + Talk: An Eightfold Path Leads to the End of Anxiety
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 33-minute meditation and 46-minute talk and discussion about the Four Noble Truths in terms of anxiety, focusing on the Fourth Truth: An Eightfold Path Leads to the End of Anxiety. You can find notes for this talk here.
I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – open to everyone!
Meditation: An Eightfold Path Leads to the End of Anxiety ...
June 15, 2021
Do Freely
What are you doing?
The Practice:
Do freely.
Why?
Most people spend most minutes of most days doing one thing after another. I sure do. Typing these words is a kind of doing, as is driving to work, making dinner, brushing one’s teeth, or putting the kids to bed. For all the “labor-saving” devices of the past 50 years – dishwashers, phone machines, word processors, etc. – most of us are laboring more, not less. For example, in terms of employment, the average workweek in America has got...
June 13, 2021
Being Well Podcast: Connecting With Your True Nature
On today’s episode of Being Well, we’re exploring how we can get back in touch with the person we were when we were young. And, alongside that, how we can rediscover our “true nature:” who we were before the world got in the way.
Key Topics:
1:10: Uncovering our true nature.
4:20: Our cultural view of children.
7:20: “Feeling down” into younger layers.
13:30: W...
June 10, 2021
Meditation + Talk: Innate Goodness
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 50-minute guided meditation and talk and 39-minute questions and answers, with guest teacher Stephen Snyder.
Stephen began practicing daily meditation in 1976. Since then, he has studied Buddhism extensively – investigating and engaging in Zen, Tibetan, and Western nondual traditions. Stephen was authorized to teach in 2007 by the Venerable Pa Auk Sayadaw, a Burmese meditation master and renowned scholar. In 2009, he coauthored Practicing the J...
June 7, 2021
Being Well Podcast: Fierce Self-Compassion with Dr. Kristin Neff
People generally think of self-compassion as a “soft” emotion that helps us comfort, reassure, and nurture ourselves. Today a pioneer in the field of compassion research, Dr. Kristin Neff, joins the show to explore the fierce side of self-compassion, including how it can help us draw healthy boundaries, take necessary action, and stand against injustice.
About ...
June 6, 2021
Forgive Yourself
Are you hard on yourself?
The Practice:
Forgive yourself.
Why?
Everyone messes up. Me, you, the neighbors, Mother Teresa, Mahatma Ghandi, King David, the Buddha, everybody.
It’s important to acknowledge mistakes, feel appropriate remorse, and learn from them so they don’t happen again. But most people keep beating themselves up way past the point of usefulness: they’re unfairly self-critical.
Inside the mind are many sub-personalities. For example, one part of me might set the alarm cl...
June 3, 2021
Meditation + Talk: Anxiety – and the Noble Truth of Cessation
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 33-minute meditation and 49-minute talk and discussion about the Four Noble Truths in terms of anxiety, focusing on the Third Truth: Anxiety and Cessation. You can find notes for this talk here.
I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – open to everyone!
Meditation: Anxiety – and the Noble Truth of CessationMay 31, 2021
Being Well Podcast: How to Make a Big Decision
Some of the most important moments of our lives are crossroads of different kinds. There’s a big decision, and we have to pick one thing over another. Today Dr. Hanson and Forrest explore how to make the important decisions in life.
Key Topics:
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May 28, 2021
Three Ways to Work with the Mind
Without steadiness of mind, it’s difficult to be productive, peaceful, or helpful to other people. To aid in cultivating a more steady mind, Dr. Rick Hanson offers three fundamental ways in which you can work with it.
This is a clip from Dr. Hanson’s Neurodharma online program, which begins on May 29, 2021. Click here to learn more or register.
Transcript:
If the mind is scattered, it’s dispersed, it’s clouded, if it’s lost in distractions, lost in ru...
May 27, 2021
Meditation + Talk: Anxiety – and the Noble Truth of Craving
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 35-minute guided meditation and 46-minute talk and discussion.
I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – open to everyone!
Meditation: Anxiety – and the Noble Truth of Craving Talk: Anxiety – and the Noble Truth of Craving ...
