This week, Cheryl Jones leads us in a practice to foster self-acceptance—another of our top guided meditations of 2021. Mindfulness meditation involves a willingness to be with ourselves as we are. It offers a way of learning to work with ourselves, and not on ourselves, especially if you are healing from perfectionism. We can start to notice whatever is happening within us and around us with curiosity and kindness. Cheryl Jones is a certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction instructor and author who provides mindfulness training to businesses, organizations, retreat centers, and more. You can find the full list of top 10 guided meditations from 2021 at mindful.org. Show notes:    &nbsp;

12 Minute Meditation: Foster Self-Acceptance with Cheryl Jones

American Buddhist scholar Reggie Ray on how trauma can be an opportunity for spiritual growth. 

Reggie Ray: Buddhism, Trauma, and Healing

David Whyte reads his poem "No One Told Me." 

Find more at www.onbeing.org/program/david-whyte-the-conversational-nature-of-reality/8560

"No One Told Me" by David Whyte

Secrets of Life

Reverence to Peace

Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/04/03/working-together-david-whyte/
Excerpted from https://soundcloud.com/onbeing/sets/david-whyte-the-conversational

Photograph by Nicol Ragland

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

David Whyte reads "Working Together"

"Everlasting" - a poem by David Whyte, from his new book of poetry, "The Bell and The Blackbird."

The Bell and The Blackbird

Everlasting - DavidWhyte

Yashobodhi is our guide for this year's Dharma immersion online and at Triratna Centres around the world as part of the 2018 International Practice Week. 

Here is a short guided tonglen meditation you can use all week to support going deeper with the seven-point mind training work Yashobodhi is exploring. A great, practical way to ground yourself and get an experience of why this kind of practice matters and how it works. 

This meditation is particularly referenced in point 2 when looking at the Bodhichitta as a frame of reference.

Follow and connect with others at the online space for this year's retreat:

https://thebuddhistcentre.com/international-practice-week

With thanks to West London Buddhist Centre.

Triratna International Practice Week 2018 - Seven-Point Mind Training

Seven Point Mind Training - Guided Tonglen Practice

The poet-philosopher. To ask beautiful questions in unbeautiful moments. “Your great mistake is to act the drama / as if you were alone.” Rest as the conversation between what we love to do and how we love to be. The underlying meaning of everyday words.

“Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet / confinement of your aloneness / to learn / anything or anyone / that does not bring you alive / is too small for you.” David Whyte is a poet and philosopher who believes in the power of a “beautiful question” amid the drama of work as well as the drama of life, and the ways the two overlap. He shared a deep friendship with the late Irish philosopher John O’Donohue. They were, David Whyte says, like “two bookends.” More recently, he’s written about the consolation, nourishment, and underlying meaning of everyday words.

David Whyte is a poet and an associate fellow at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. He is the author of “The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America” and “Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words.” His new book of poetry is “The Bell and the Blackbird.”

Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

On Being with Krista Tippett

David Whyte – The Conversational Nature Of Reality

5-min recording at dusk at Ojesjon lake. Black-throated divers, frogs, woodcock and others

Ojesjon Lake dusk 5 mins April 2019

Guided Meditation: Introduction to mindfulness, using an anchor to settle the mind and body. From a Lovingkindness Retreat at the Insight Meditation Society, May 2019

Guided Meditations

Guided Meditation: Settling the Mind and Body

An unedited sample recorded at dawn in cloud forest in Enga province, Papua New Guinea. This and other recordings from the PNG highlands will be featured in an upcoming album.

Dawn in the Papua New Guinea Highlands

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Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning, hosted by Krista Tippett. Every Thursday a new discovery about the immensity of our lives — and frequent special features like poetry, music and Q + A with Krista.

David Whyte – The Conversational Nature Of Reality

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