Category: Meditation

The Six Paramitas – Protecting Our Practice (Ethical Discipline)

Notes & Transcript Autogenerated Transcript (may not be accurate) So that practice [referring to meditation on seeing the mind as like the sky and thoughts as like clouds] we’ve done a few times during these sessions. It’s not the easiest practice, belongs to the Mahamudra tradition, but it is a very worthwhile practice to learn […]

Why Combining Meditation and Yoga During Retreat is the Perfect Combination

The Synergy of Buddhism and Yoga: Why We Combine These Two Practices To Improve Your Wellbeing and Retreat Experience Buddhism and yoga both have their roots in ancient India. The practices taught by the Buddha are a means to achieve spiritual insight and ultimately, enlightenment. The same is true of yoga, with its roots in […]

The Six Paramitas – Patient Acceptance

Notes & Transcript Autogenerated Transcript (may not be accurate) From the meditation:There are many things in life that we face that we cannot change; illness, harm, disappointments, people behaving badly, goals not coming to fruition. And any time we come into conflict with life in this way, any time we want life to be different […]

The Six Paramitas – Generosity

Notes & Transcript Automatic Generated Transcript (may not be accurate) These Six Paramitas, as I probably mentioned there, often translated as the six perfections. But the meaning of the Sanskrit term paramita doesn’t mean to perfect really. It means to transcend that. And so you can’t really perfect giving, can you? Because what would that […]

Cultivating Wholesome Emotions

https://vimeo.com/787299393 Apologies for any small noises in the background of the meditation, this is recorded from temporary accommodation where noise control is more difficult! Notes & Transcript The excerpt David was quoting from: Working with afflictive emotions requires a two-pronged approach. Managing unwholesome emotions and stopping actions motivated by them are important components, but they […]

Guided Meditation – Reflecting Back On The Year

This is a guided meditation on reflecting on our growth in the last year. We often don’t notice the changes and growth we go through on a day-to-day basis, and it’s only when we stop and look where we were that we notice what has changed.  In this meditation, spend time reflecting on and appreciating […]

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