In this guided practice, offered by Vince Fakhoury Horn, we'll work with a simple metta phrase: "May Love Arise."

"Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world. Practicing metta illuminates our inner integrity because it relieves us of the need to deny different aspects of ourselves. We can open to everything with the healing force of love. When we feel love, our mind is expansive and open enough to include the entirety of life in full awareness, both its pleasures and its pains, we feel neither betrayed by pain or overcome by it, and thus we can contact that which is undamaged within us regardless of the situation." – Sharon Salzberg, "Loving-Kindness"

Guided Meditation: May Love Arise

This is a social meditation demonstration.  We suggest treating it in the same way you would a guided meditation.  If you'd like to participate in a live session, you can do so in the Buddhist Geeks Network (www.buddhistgeeks.network)

The Basic Instructions:

When it's your turn note aloud either "seeing", "hearing", or "feeling."  If you aren't sure what's happening you can note "don't know", "pass," "uncertain," or any variation on that theme.

Practice by: Vince Fakhoury Horn (www.vincehorn.space)

Special thanks to Shinzen Young, for the see-hear-feel model, and to Kenneth Folk, the originator of Social Noting.

Noting See-Hear-Feel (A Social Meditation)

We’re joined by Zen Master, Diane “Musho” Hamilton, to explore an approach to spiritual practice called “Integral Zen.” In our interview we explore several related topics, including the difference between a path of renunciation and one of transmutation. As part of this we also look at the role that the shadow—a term coined by psychologist Carl Jung—plays in our spiritual practice. In addition we examine how different Buddhist traditions have, or have not, incorporated an understanding of the shadow. We also explore the role that community plays in helping wake each other up, and the verticality of the teacher-student relationship. Finally we talk about how she is incorporating, what are called the “3 faces of spirit” into her Zen teaching.

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Vince Horn is a mind hacker & buddhist geek. In this keynote, from the 2014 Buddhist Geeks Conference, he explores the unbundling of components like meditation and mindfulness from contemporary Buddhism. He then explores the process of re-bundling and what the future of both Buddhist and Buddhist-inspired models may look like as new combinations of knowledge come together in novel, and sometimes timeless, ways.

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In this guided meditation Emily West Horn invites you to cultivate concentration by attending to the body breathing.

This meditation was recorded during a Buddhist Geeks Training (www.buddhistgeeks.training) called The First Turning.

Learn more about Emily here: www.emilyhorn.com

Cultivating Concentration (Guided Meditation)

In this guided meditation Vince Fakhoury Horn guides you into the sitting posture by focusing on 6 progressive points of focus.

This meditation was recorded during a Buddhist Geeks Training (www.buddhistgeeks.training) called The First Turning.

Learn more about Vince here: www.vincehorn.space

The Six Points of Posture (Guided Meditation)

The Heart of Insight Retreat was held in December 2017, at the Bend of Ivy Lodge, and was led by Vincent Horn & Emily Horn.

Heart of Insight

Social Meditation: Background

Deepening Concentration

These talks & meditations were recorded at the Pragmatic Dharma Retreat in 2018, at the Bend of Ivy Lodge in Marshall, NC.  The retreat was co-led by Kenneth Folk & Vincent Horn.

This Open Source Dharma teaching ( http://www.opensourcedharma.info ) is offered using a Creative Commons by attribution 4.0 license ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ).

Dongshans Five Ranks

Essence Noting

One By One As They Occurred

This talk was recorded by Kenneth Folk (www.kennethfolkdharma.com) at the Pragmatic Dharma Retreat in 2018 (www.pragmaticdharma.training), at the Bend of Ivy Lodge in Marshall, NC.

Pragmatic Dharma And The Go-To Move

Inclining the mind toward opening the heart.  Guided meditations by Vince Horn & Emily Horn.

Heartful Of Equanimity

Heartful Of Joy

Heartful Of Compassion

Heartful Of Kindness

Heartful Of Forgiveness

Simply being what is.

Guided meditations from Vince Horn & Emily Horn

Loving What Is

The Space Of Awareness

What Is This?

Mindfulness is the practice of noticing what you're sensing in real-time.

Guided mindfulness meditations from Vince Horn & Emily Horn.

Mindful Of Grocery Shopping

Mindful Of Thinking 10m

Concentration is the practice of stabilizing attention on a single point.

Guided concentration meditations from Vince Horn & Emily Horn.

Focus On Joy

Focus On Breath

Discovering Your Concentration Object

"Since death alone is certain and the time of death uncertain, what should I do?" - Stephen Batchelor

This guided meditation was recorded by Vincent Horn as part of the Pragmatic Dharma Training (http://www.pragmaticdharma.training).

This Open Source Dharma (http://www.opensourcedharma.info) teaching is offered using a Creative Commons by attribution 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Pragmatic Dharma Training

Embodied Death Contemplation

"Just understand that birth-and-death is itself nirvana. There is nothing such as birth and death to be avoided; there is nothing such as nirvana to be sought. Only when you realize this are you free from birth and death." - Dogen Zenji

This teaching was recorded by Vincent Horn (www.vincehorn.space) as part of the Pragmatic Dharma Training (www.pragmaticdharma.training).

This Open Source Dharma teaching (www.opensourcedharma.info) is offered using a Creative Commons by attribution 4.0 license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Birth and Death in the 2nd Turning

"Since death alone is certain and the time of death uncertain, what should I do?" - Stephen Batchelor

This teaching was recorded by Vincent Horn as part of the Pragmatic Dharma Training (www.pragmaticdharma.training).

This Open Source Dharma (www.opensourcedharma.info) teaching is offered using a Creative Commons by attribution 4.0 license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Birth and Death in Early Buddhism

"It doesn't exist, even the victorious ones haven't seen it.
It is not nonexistent because it is the basis of all samsara and nirvana.
This is not a contradiction because this is the unity of the middle way.
May we realize the true nature of mind, which is free from all limitations and extremes."

An Aspirational Prayer for Mahamudra
Rangjung Dorge, the Third Karmapa

This teaching was recorded by Vincent Horn (www.vincehorn.space) as part of the Pragmatic Dharma Training (www.pragmaticdharma.training).

This Open Source Dharma teaching (www.opensourcedharma.info) is offered using a Creative Commons by attribution 4.0 license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

The 3rd Turning, Vajrayana View

This teaching was recorded by Vincent Horn (www.vincehorn.space) as part of the Pragmatic Dharma Training (www.pragmaticdharma.training).

This Open Source Dharma teaching (www.opensourcedharma.info) is offered using a Creative Commons by attribution 4.0 license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

The 4th Turning, Metadharma View

This guided meditation, exploring 6 points of the sitting meditation posture, was recorded by Vince Horn (www.vincehorn.space).

This Open Source Dharma teaching (www.opensourcedharma.info) is offered using a Creative Commons by attribution 4.0 license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Six Points of Posture

This talk, offered by Vincent Horn at the Awakening Presence Retreat in 2019, is an overview of the six phases of insight model of meditation, co-developed by Vince Fakhoury Horn & Emily West Horn.

This Open Source Dharma teaching (www.opensourcedharma.info) is offered using a Creative Commons by attribution 4.0 license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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