Match Your Meditation to Your Mood
There’s more than one way to meditate. Different traditions have different practices. Most people think that Vipassana is focused on
Category: Four Brahmaviharas
Come in out of the wind!
If you can think of a situation or condition that pushes your buttons, setting off an inner rant or a desire to run away or hide, then you know how challenging it can be to maintain a sense of balanced easeful equanimity. One minute we feel fine, life is good, and then something trips us into feeling overwhelmed, out of kilter, struggling to find solid ground.
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!
Are you imprisoned by your preferences?
In the past four posts, I’ve written about the mind states of loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity: the Brahma-viharas,
Equanimity :: Holding life in an open embrace
In the last few posts of my dharma talks we have been looking at the Brahma-viharas, spacious mind-states where we
Envy can be a useful clarifying tool
Envy makes us feel like we’re on the outside looking in, that we don’t belong, that there’s something wrong with
Compassion is life loving itself
Part of mindfulness practice is cultivating compassion for ourselves. For example, when we are meditating and we get lost in
Love doesn’t have to hurt.
When we talk about love we may mean romantic love or the family and friendship ties that bind us in
Uppekka – Be like the sky!
The fourth of the Four Brahma Viharas is Uppekka, the ability to hold all that passes through our current experience
Mudita – The Antidote to Envy
So there you are, walking down the street and you see a toddler splashing joyfully in a puddle or pointing
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