Coming home to the Four Brahmaviharas
True kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity are our natural state if we can untangle our attention from the thick blinding veils!
Category: emotions
Take Wing!
We all ride the worldly winds of life, but are we flailing, falling or flapping our wings more than we
What’s the difference between empathy and compassion?
(Following up on a comment on the last post.)Empathy is inherent to brain development. From a very young age most
Noting sensations and emotions: It’s not all bad!
Last week I shared the experience of receiving difficult news, and the challenges of meditating with ‘the elephant in the
Thoughts & emotions in meditation, continuing the Anapanasati Sutta
In our continuing exploration of the Anapanasati Sutta, the Buddha’s teaching on mindfulness of the breath, we now come to
It’s a Jungle In There! Coming into Healthy Relationship with Our Minds
Continuing with our focus on the Third Foundation of Mindfulness… Imagine ‘pleasant’ ‘unpleasant and ‘neutral’ as seeds scattered in the garden
Third Foundation of Mindfulness – Awareness of Mental Phenomena
Last week we discussed the Second Foundation of Mindfulness and in class we practiced noting whether a current experience was
‘Go to the Places That Scare You’
At the beginning of each dharma talk, after our meditation (so we are all primed to receive insight and wisdom,)
The Dungeon of Difficult Emotions
We’ve seen how holding tight to our established identity creates contraction as we grasp and cling to that hard rock
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