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Meditation helps us to see more clearly - to clean the metaphorical glasses through which we see the world. In both Buddhist meditation...

Bette Davis was once asked why she didn't quit smoking. She replied, "If I stopped smoking, how would people know who I am." Maybe...

I heard Kevin Townley say (and I'm sorry I have to paraphrase) that it isn't right to ignore suffering, but it also isn't right to ignore...

The "Alternate Sense Meditation" is a good tool to have in your toolbox for times of anxiety or overthinking. I recorded two variations...

Danusha Laméris' poem "Night Bird," provides a beautiful entry to a mindfulness meditation, inviting us to see clearly with warmth. Go to...

We meditate not to get better at meditation but to get better at being present in our lives.

This meditation uess on a concept (bodhichitta) that is practiced during Loving-Kindness. If you're not familiar with Loving-Kindness meditations, you may want to do another meditation. Go to 2:02 to skip the intro and get right into the practice.

The "Accordian Principle" is a good model for meditations when we're out of our routine and/or don't have much time.

This is an open awareness practice. We act as an observer, watching and narrating where our awareness goes. This has two potential...

Mandalas are an organizing principle, very different from our modern system of dividing information into folders and then labeling them. In a mandala, all of reality is included - the "good," the "bad," as well as all the "white noise" of life. Mandalas invite us to relax into the truth, without pushing some things away or grasping at others. We can start to see more clearly and develop greater discernment and wisdom.

We meditate not to get better at meditation, but to make the other 23.5 hours of the day more peaceful, loving, compassionate - "better," in whatever way that means to you. The practice of Loving-Kindness for Ourselves is a targeted practice for shifting our post-meditation experience. With regular practice, it starts to soften the way we interact with ourselves...and the whole world. Go to 4:23 to skip the intro and get right into the meditation.

As Rebecca Solnit defines Mutual Aid: “It’s a deep belief in and commitment to inseparability: that my well-being is inseparable from yours and that, in caring for yours, I care for myself and, more than that, for the larger whole that is us, because we are in this together.” This definition of mutual aid is similar to the Zen concept of "interbeing" and to the idea that no one is an island (to paraphrase John Donne) and that we are all better, stronger, richer together.  Go

"Sympathetic Joy" allows us to multiply our happiness. Go to 3:42 to skip the intro and get right into the 15-minute meditation.

This meditation uses Andrea Gibson's poem: All of my pain is a spider I've learned not to crush with the heel of my shoe but to guide...

Full moons, and July's Buck Moon in particular, are associated with abundance and clarity. This meditation invites us to slow down connect to our own intentions in the midst of summer's flourishing.

" The more mindful we are the more stories we can create for ourselves - not fictions - more ways of understanding." - Dr. Ellen Langer Mindfulness is a way of breaking free of old, fixed beliefs that no longer serve us and of opening up to other possibilities.  Go to 2:47 to skip the intro.

Munidra said: "I meditate so that I can notice the little purple flowers by the side of the road."

Dear community, “In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single...

This meditation uses the Buddhist concept of "bardo," or transition, as an invitation to rest in the liminal moment of possibility -- recognizing that the liminal is often an uncomfortable place. As humans, we sometimes balk at uncertainty. So, as we rest in the transition of spring to summer, and of one breath to the next, this meditation also invites us to notice how we're doing and to give ourselves a little love. Go to 2:02 to skip the intro and get right into the meditat