mindfulness

Mindfulness

Mindful meditations

meditation

When we experience powerful emotions, especially unpleasant ones, we can feel completely overwhelmed, even “taken over” by our experience.  At other times we feel like we need to numb out, closing ourselves down so that we don’t get overwhelmed.  

This meditation is designed to give you a different method for working with these emotions.  Instead of trying to get rid of them, drown them out, or ignore them, we’ll practice giving our emotions an infinite amount of space and time to change within.

Infinity (buddhify.com)

The Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue was beloved for his book Anam Ċara, Gaelic for "soul friend," and for his insistence on beauty as a human calling. In one of his last interviews before his death in 2008, he articulated a Celtic imagination about how the material and the spiritual — the visible and the invisible — intertwine in human experience. His voice and writings continue to bring ancient mystical wisdom to modern confusions and longings.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/john-o-donohue-the-inner-landscape-beauty/203

John O'Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty

"Beauty isn’t all about just niceness, loveliness. Beauty is about more rounded substantial becoming." Beloved Irish poet John O'Donohue on beauty's true grit, and finding it in the transformational edges of our daily lives.

Find more at www.onbeing.org/becoming-wise

Beauty Is an Edge of Becoming | John O'Donohue [Becoming Wise]

Raghu and Ram Dass do a live hang out on Skype.

Raghu reminds Ram Dass of the first moment they met in Montreal 
and how that moment defined a trust for him that led to meeting the Guru. 
Ram Dass talks about his first encounters with trust through the sacred mushroom and Tim Leary.
For the first time Ram Dass tells the real story of how he came to coin Be Here Now while searching for the Guru in India.
Ram Dass talks about intuition and imagination as a method to connect with the Guru- and Raghu quotes from Ram Dass' book Journey of Awakening in relation to meeting the Guru- " When needed the Guru appears. It's a benign conspiracy".
Finally Ram Dass talks about contentment and the fact that he has been living in a "stroked" body has not deterred him from being in the moment and being content.

Ram Dass - Here and Now - Ep. 96 - Trust, Contentment, And The Guru

A mindfulness practice from Shamash Alidina's "The Mindful Way Through Stress: http://www.shamashalidina.com/books/

The Mindful Way through Stress

7-Minute Mindfulness Practice for Responding to Stress

Mindfulness Teacher Vinny Ferraro, a longtime meditator and senior trainer with Mindful Schools, talks to Mindful about why it's so difficult to soften the heart and how we can engage the compassionate response.

Stephany Tlalka's Album

Compassion Talks: Why We're Hardwired to Armor Our Hearts

15-Minute Guided Practice: Turning Towards Difficulty

This meditation is drawn from Theravada (Southern Buddhism) called "Anapana" - just bringing you to right here, and it's done through the breath. Out of all of our individual differences, what is common to us is we are all breathing in, breathing out. 


15-Minute Guided Practice: Turning Towards Difficulty

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