Body, Mind, Living, Dying.: Recent Episodes
Michael Wells
Thoughts on using guided meditations vs silent, and on intentionally developing certain mental and emotional patterns as foundations for awakening-oriented meditation
Topics include the joy of getting over a hump in meditation, practicing in nature, facing sloth-and-torpor, dealing with rationalizations for smoking pot when your Big Bad Issue was opiates, wondering aloud about the people listening to this. Thanks, you're a really unique person if you're reading this description. Like a one-in-a-fucking-billion, literally.
A reading of Roshi Joan Halifax's guided meditation based on the Vajrayana "Dissolution of the Elements" symbolism, blended with her long experience in hospice care witnessing the death process [almost] first-hand.