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(Gaia House) Cultivating the four qualities of friendliness, compassion, joy and equanimity to help us creatively engage in wise, harmless, compassionate action, when in contact through our senses with the resulting feeling tones. How to experince feeling tones without grasping?
(Gaia House) Looking at ethical actions in terms of the five precepts, exploring the two aspects of restraint and cultivation; while exploring the impact of various feeling tones on our impulses and attitudes.
(Gaia House) All of the names of those who asked questions have been removed from the recording.
(Gaia House) All of the names of those who asked qeustions have been removed from the recording.
(Gaia House) All retreatants names and 'live' questions asked by retreatants have been removed from the recordings on this retreat.
(Gaia House) Mudita (appreciative joy/altruistic joy) as the gateway for gratitude and flourishing amidst life’s ups and downs.
(Gaia House) All retreatants names, and also any 'live' questions asked by retreatants, have been deleted from the recordings on this retreat.
(Gaia House) An Equanimous mind is like gold: brilliant and malleable amidst life’s ups and downs.
(Gaia House) {This talk is part of a set of two recordings from the retreat (Instructions – Mudita; Guided Meditation on Appreciative Joy). Both recordings focus on Mudita (appreciative/altruistic joy) with practical instructions and a guided meditation.}
(Gaia House) {This talk is part of a set of two recordings from the retreat (Instructions – Mudita; Guided Meditation on Appreciative Joy). Both recordings focus on Mudita (appreciative/altruistic joy) with practical instructions and a guided meditation.}
(Gaia House) {This talk is part of a set of three recordings from the retreat (Vedana; Instructions – Mindfulness of Vedana; Guided Meditation – Mindfulness of Feeling Tone). All three recordings focus on mindfulness of feeling tones with general explanations, practical instructions and guided meditation.}
(Gaia House) {This talk is part of a set of three recordings from the retreat (Vedana; Instructions – Mindfulness of Vedana; Guided Meditation – Mindfulness of Feeling Tone). All three recordings focus on mindfulness of feeling tones with general explanations, practical instructions and guided meditation}.
(Gaia House) {This talk is part of a set of three recordings from the retreat (Vedana; Instructions – Mindfulness of Vedana; Guided Meditation – Mindfulness of Feeling Tone). All three recordings focus on mindfulness of feeling tones with general explanations, practical instructions and guided meditation.}
(Gaia House) An indepth exploration of the different ways meditation can help us to creatively engaged in daily life, including within our relationships with loved ones.
(Gaia House) How mindfulness of contact and feeling tones could lead to creative engagement in daily life.
(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) These draft papers presented by their authors at the 2017 Vedana Symposium sponsored by the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies will be revised and published in 2018 in a special edition of the Journal of Contemporary Buddhism.
(Gaia House) Looking into experiencing degrasping directly and indirectly through cultivating meditation and mindfulness. How can we creatively engaged with self, others, material things, etc in our daily life.
(Gaia House) Exploring the basis of meditation and how cultivating meditation is going to help us in our daily life.
(Gaia House) Connecting ethics with mindfulness of feeling tones. Exploring appropriate speech, action and livelihood.
(Gaia House) Exploring the connection between perception and feeling tones, looking deeply and compassionate response. Questioning if change is total or partial.
(Gaia House) Exploring anchoring and questioning in the context of secular meditation in terms of goal and values. Looking at meditative experience, and mindfulness of feeling tones.
(Gaia House) The connection between experiential enquiry and compassion, how to develop and manifest a compassionate wise intention in daily life.
(Gaia House) An exploration of concentration and anchoring, and also of perception and how we perceive, with a link to experiential enquiry.
(Gaia House) Exploring the importance of mindfulness of feeling tones in connection with grasping and creatively engaging with contact through the senses.
(New York Insight Meditation Center) During this daylong we will examine the process of grasping and its amplifying/exaggerating effects and how meditation can help us to de-grasp and release our holding thus allowing for creative engagement and a creative response. We will have the opportunity to practice mindfulness meditation (sitting and walking) to develop our potential for letting go. We will also explore the different ways we can meditate.
(New York Insight Meditation Center) During this daylong we will examine the process of grasping and its amplifying/exaggerating effects and how meditation can help us to de-grasp and release our holding thus allowing for creative engagement and a creative response. We will have the opportunity to practice mindfulness meditation (sitting and walking) to develop our potential for letting go. We will also explore the different ways we can meditate.
(New York Insight Meditation Center) During this talk I would like to explore mindfulness of the feeling tones (vedena), which is the second foundation of the practice of mindulness. First I will try to present the different aspects of mindfulness. Secondly I will try to define feeling tones and thirdly how to be mindful of them. The Pali term vedana refers to the affective tone of experience. When we come into contact through one of our six senses with the environment, we experience a pleasant, unpleasant or neither pleasant nor unpleasant feeling tone. It is important to see that feeling tones are constructed, they are not a given, they do not reside in the object we come in contact with. It is vital to be aware of feeling tones as they arise extremely fast and have a profound impact on our behavior.
(Gaia House) Exploring the bodhisattva precepts, the goals of practice and meditative experiences and awakening.
(Gaia House) Looking at the two aspects of meditation: anchoring and experiential inquiry. Listening meditation instructions
(Gaia House) Looking at the 3 aspects of emptiness: not-self, conditionality and interconnection
(Gaia House) The two ways to look at doubt in meditation practice, questioning 'What is this?' while cultivating effortless effort.
(Gaia House) What does it means 'to save all beings', remove all obstacles and attain the way nowadays?
(Gaia House) Exploring calm, its practice and its function, notably through mindfulness of the body.
(Gaia House) Exploring effort and presenting the connection between concentration and loving kindness.
(Gaia House) Exploring attention and investigation and it's connection to listening meditation.
(Gaia House) Looking into the feeling tones and their connection with an ethical attitude.
(Gaia House) Presenting the different stages of the path and the process of meditation.
(Gaia House) Exploring how we come into contact through our senses and can creatively engage with our environment.
(Gaia House) Looking at the meaning of selflessness and what would support our practice.
(Gaia House) Exploring creative awareness and the building blocks of meditation: samatha and vipassana.
(Gaia House) Investigating the process of grasping and its opposite, creative engagement. Looking also at how vipassana helps us to develop wise compassion.
(Gaia House) Exploring the two qualities that are essential to develop creative awareness.
(Gaia House) Exploring how one can become aware of feeling tones and how this could help us in our daily life.
(Gaia House) Looking at the process of grasping which makes us proliferate & exaggerate and creative engagement which helps us to be clear and flexible in our daily life.
(Gaia House) Exploring the phrases and the meaning and practice of happiness, safety, and ease and their connection to contentment
(Gaia House) Exploring a caring and careful mindfulness and making the connection with concentration and experiential enquiry.
(Gaia House) 'After, during, at the beginning, before': how meditation and mindfulness can help us to let go of grasping at negative patterns.
(Gaia House) Exploring selfing and not- selfing through three symbols of awakening. Looking at how we grasp and identify and how meditation can help us to release.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Looking at balance in mediation through the prism of appropriate vision and appropriate concentration.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) During this daylong we will work with the habits that bind us and stop our potential for wisdom and compassion from manifesting fully. We will use the meditative tools found in the Vipassana and Zen traditions, like watching the breath, listening and questioning, to see how we can engage creatively with our habits and transform them into positive functions.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) During this daylong we will work with the habits that bind us and stop our potential for wisdom and compassion from manifesting fully. We will use the meditative tools found in the Vipassana and Zen traditions, like watching the breath, listening and questioning, to see how we can engage creatively with our habits and transform them into positive functions.
(Gaia House) Looking at the three trainings of ethics, meditation and wisdom and their application in daily life with the help of ethics and compassion.
(Gaia House) What should we rely on when practising? An exploration of the four reliances found in Zen texts. Also looking at the actualisation of experiential wisdom in daily life.
(Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley) Meditation is not an idea of getting to a mystical state but of helping us to release. It is not an exotic practice but it is more like eating, brushing our teeth - it is a way to nourish ourselves and to open and finally to let go. It is a lifelong journey where we learn to let go and stop grasping as we become aware of our life in each moment, accept each moment as it is. Meditation can help us to be more in the world, by being here and now we can be skillful and respond to whatever happens in the present. We develop clarity, we see the changing nature of things. When we are engulfed by feelings we can step back and say ‘how long will this last?’ We do not have to feed the feelings, we just need to be with them and watch them as they change.
We can bring creative awareness to everything that we do and use it to be fully where we are, to be in our relationships in our life.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Explanation of de-grasping wisdom and compassion and meditative experience.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Explaining the four great efforts in connection to practice and daily life including tools of awareness and the three characteristics.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) An exploration of the three trainings and reflection on cultivation and effect.
(Gaia House) Looking at the eight worldly winds and exploring how meditation can help us to creatively engage with people we know and love.
(Gaia House) Looking at the different roles teachers have in the Buddhist tradition and exploring the four reliances, which help us understand and walk on the meditative path.
(Gaia House) Looking at pleasant, unpleasant and neutral feeling tones and exploring the emotional habits of fear and anger in the context of awareness meditation.
(Gaia House) A step by step presentation of awareness meditations on breath, sensations, sounds etc and how they can become tools that can help us in our daily life.
(Gaia House) This is the opening talk for a retreat that aims to integrate the practice of meditation with the ideas and doctrines that support and illuminate such practice. This talk also includes Stephen Batchelor.
(Gaia House) What is it that we dedicate and aspire to when we enter the path of practice? An exploration of compassion, afflictions, learning and awakening.
(Gaia House) Looking at the three different levels of habits - intense, habitual and light - and exploring the mental patterns.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Awakening as a process of degrasping instead of being the production of a state of enlightenment that cannot be eaten in salad. The suggestion that the path consists of sudden awakening followed by gradual practices
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How can meditation help us break free of our mental, emotional, physical habits?
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Grasping and non-grasping in connection to self, people, things, views - how grasping makes us exaggerate and proliferate and how creative engagement can help our creative potential manifest and develop.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Meditation as a life-long journey, as potential, as training, as cultivation of concentration and inquiry, which helps us develop creative awareness.
(Gaia House) Looking at the symbols of awakening representing selflessness, showing the importance of love in our spiritual lives, and exploring compassionate activities.
(Gaia House) Looking at the three different levels of habits - intense, habitual and light - and exploring mental patterns.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Looking at how we built positive or negative selfing and how meditation helps us to develop non-grasping love and from that actively manifest compassion.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Awakening is an exploration of mystical states and insights; a presentation of the four stages of awakening and their relevance to our practice and daily life.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores meditation as a cultivation of the four great efforts. These efforts inspire us to be more conscious of the inner and outer conditions that underpin our experience and to creatively engage with these conditions.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk looks at the intimate connection between wisdom and compassion. Insight into the three characteristics leads to compassion. Compassion needs to be tempered by wisdom so it does not become misguided or superior.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores the process of grasping, which limits and reduces us. It also looks at non-grasping in various areas or our life.