Beyond Mindfulness - Guided Meditations and Teachings

Meditation

Presence being

An introduction to breathing meditation, a simple and clear pathway to inner peace...

A guided meditation by Mark Golding

Use the vibration "ram" to awaken your manipura, and transform and nourish your inner fire so that you can manifest your deepest desires. 

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Manifesting All You Desire Guided Meditation

Former monk Stephan Pende leads a meditation on cultivating a loving gaze and explains how to find peace in the midst of intense experience. He explores how to work with the subconscious gossip, which is obstructing a direct relationship with our experience.  

1. Beyond Mindfulness - The Loving Gaze

There is a simple, obvious truth: there is no such entity as “me”. That is the main insight in all paths of liberation. There is no separate, solid entity called "me" or "self" anywhere to be found. The sense that there is something like that is the root cause for all suffering.  
Because of this mistake you feel you live in a prison, spending your life  protecting and trying to make happy something that was never there to begin with. Seeing through this illusion is simple and straightforward.

2. Beyond Mindfulness - Exploring Selflessness

Mindfulness supports you in your capacity to be present in moments of emotional turmoil, neither suppressing the feelings nor getting lost in them. Stephan Pende shares methods on how to be in an emotional tsunami.

4. Beyond Mindfulness - Being With An Emotional Tsunami

Stephan Pende & John Tavener - Presence Canticle

Stephan Pende explains and guides a meditation on how to recognize and rest as awareness or what sometimes is called the nature of your mind. 

5. Beyond Mindfulness - Resting As Awareness

Bodhisattvas practice 'in the middle of the fire.' This means they enter into the suffering of the world; it also means they stay steady with the fire of their own painful emotions. They neither act them out nor repress them. They are willing to stay 'on the dot' and explore an emotion's ungraspable qualities and fluid energies - and to let that experience link them to the pain and courage of others. Compassionate abiding is a method which can help us to do this. 
- Pema Chodrön

Compassionate Abiding

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I am my Story but Im not my Past

Self-Denigration is one of the biggest obstacles to bring forth Bodhicitta, the awakened heart. Stephan Pende shares methods to break through the trance of unworthiness and connect with your inner beauty and peace. The teachings and experience of Buddha-Nature are fundamental for us because we are coming from a culture of guilt and shame.

There Is Nothing Wrong With You

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing. We try to make ourselves into something real and unchanging when our fundamental state of being is unconditionally open and ungraspable.

Impermanence is good news

Working with Shenpa. In English, shenpa is generally translated as "attachment." But, some words, such as "shenpa" convey many dimensions which cannot be covered by a single term. Rather, shenpa is a pervasive discomfort; it is the underlying sense of “I, me and mine” and all the wants, needs, aversions, hopes, and fears that come out of that.  So, shenpa will be found in our attachments and aversions, our stupidity, pride and jealousies. Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

Not Biting the Hook

As spaciousness opens within you, you can experience a profound silence in your very being. You may feel nervous at first, and at the same time, you’ve longed for this. This is the vast silence that surrounds life. Trust it and rest in the stillness. Feel your heart open and become more fully alive. Everything that arises from this silence is only a cloud in the vast sky, a wave on the ocean. Rest in the depths of silence. - Jack Kornfield

Everything is in the nature of peace - Meditation

Research has shown that Loving Kindness meditations can boost social closeness and implicit liking of strangers (Hutcherson et al. (2008). While this is a laboratory study, the results suggest this simple technique may help increase positive social emotions and decrease social isolation.

Loving Kindness Guided Meditation - Female Voice

A guided meditation into the present moment, connecting with the primordial peace of your own being. Just being here, now, in a place where you have everything you need. 

Resting in timeless presence

Stephan Wormland, MA in clinical psychology and trained in Gestalt therapy. He has studied and practiced meditation in multiple Buddhist traditions for over 30 years and spent altogether 5 years in meditation retreats. Stephan was a monk in the Tibetan tradition for 11 years and teaches meditation in Buddhist centers in Europe.

Compassionate Abiding

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