The ground of loving kindness is seeing the basic goodness in ourselves, each other and our world. This is what gives rise to pure appreciation, friendliness, love and the felt-sense of belonging. In this talk we explore what obscures and contracts our perceptual field, and the pathway of purposefully awakening this transformational capacity of cherishing all life.

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Cultivating Loving Kindness

This heart meditation guides us in how to cultivate a deep quality of friendliness in relating to our inner life and each other. The gift of this practice is a direct sense of belonging – knowing that we can never be alone (given on retreat).

Heart Meditation: Loving Kindness - Befriending our Lives

Affectionate Breathing

2018-03-13 at Insight Meditation South Bay

The series on the Seven Awakening factors concludes with Oren J. Sofer’s talk on the quality of equanimity. Sofer tells us that this quality develops slowly among the other factors and is considered one of the highest attainments in Buddhist practice. The fore-taste of evenness and balance can be considered a glimpse into the mind of an awakened being.

These talks are offered freely. To donate to support Oren’s work, please visit www.OrenJaySofer.com/support

Oren Jay Sofer

Equanimity

2016

These talks are offered freely. To donate to support Oren’s work, please visit www.OrenJaySofer.com/support

Strengthening Gratitude: Guided Meditation

The beautiful truth is that love can be awakened, cultivated, and invited to grow in our hearts. The practice of metta or lovingkindness taught here is a simple, timeless way  to open the heart and to move through the world with a loving spirit.

Loving Kindness Meditation - Jack Kornfield

Maintain moment to moment nonjudgmental awareness and explore your boundaries in a safe and gentle way. Designed for seamless integration into the MBSR curriculum, this Yoga Series 2 guided practice is informed by traditional Hatha Yoga and isn the perfect way to nourish and yoke together your body and mind.

MBSR CD 2

36 minute Yoga Series 2 for MBSR

This guided yoga sequence is an integral component of MBSR training and is designed to be used in conjunction with the workbook. Remember that you are the expert on your body and that you are the only one who can decide when to move deeper into the pose and when to back off.

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MBSR Class - InsightLA

45 minute Floor Yoga (Long) for MBSR

Part of a series of guided meditations and exercises taught by Senior Teacher Lisa Kring, in her popular Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindful Self Compassion (MSC) classes at InsightLA.

36 minute Floor Yoga Routine

38 minute Body Scan Meditation

Compassion is hard wired in our organism, and can be cultivated. We have the capacity for affiliative care, to tune into each other and to hold each other in our hearts. Developing this innate potential is the hope of our world.

Using the acronym R-A-I-N (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture), this meditation offers guidance in mindfully attuning to the emotional experience of others and awakening our natural tenderness and care.

Affectionate Breathing

Ken Shih