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Dharma Talks
2026-08-25 Talk: The Life of the Heart: Emotions and Mind States in Mettā Practice 64:17
Yahel Avigur
Mettā practice involves and supports our whole being, including the full range of what may be alive in our hearts. In this talk, we explore ways of relating skilfully and wholeheartedly to our emotional life, developing greater sensitivity, understanding, and capacity to work with the movements of the heart. Like the retreat as a whole, this talk draws on suggestions offered by Rob Burbea in his 2011 retreat, “The Lovingkindness Retreat”.
Vrážné Zen Center :  Heart of Mettā

2026-08-25 Second Instructions: Skilfully Speaking to Oneself, Working with Mental Difficulties, and Mettā Towards a Friend 55:29
Yahel Avigur
Practising mettā is a skill and an art that involves and develops many aspects of the heart and mind. In these instructions, we explore how to work skilfully with common mental difficulties, such as restlessness and tiredness, and how to gradually nourish and deepen mettā.
Vrážné Zen Center :  Heart of Mettā

2026-08-24 Reflections on the Karaṇīya Mettā Sutta and Guided Practice: Mettā Towards Oneself and the Easiest Person 0:00
Yahel Avigur
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In this evening session, we are reading the Kariniya Metta sutta, and practicing Metta to oneself and to the easiest person
Vrážné Zen Center :  Heart of Mettā

2026-08-24 Talk: Samādhi in Mettā Practice 46:51
Yahel Avigur
In this talk, we explore the place of samādhi—the quality of gathering and harmonising the heart and mind—in mettā practice. We learn how to support its development, allowing both the meditative experience and the quality of mettā to deepen and refine.
Vrážné Zen Center :  Heart of Mettā

2026-08-24 First Instructions: Definitions and Orientations; Body, Phrases, and Imagination; Mettā Towards Oneself and the Easiest Person 58:49
Yahel Avigur
In these first instructions, we establish the foundations for mettā practice: turning our hearts towards goodwill for ourselves and the easiest person, and working with phrases, bodily sensitivity, and imagination.
Vrážné Zen Center :  Heart of Mettā

2026-08-18 Guided Meditation - Finding Our Way with Mettā 41:18
Mark Ovland
Gaia House :  Fulfilling Stillness; Journeying Beyond the Known

2026-08-11 Guided Meditation - Energy Body Mettā , Radiating in all Directions 43:15
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House :  Refreshing Confidence; Resourcing the Journey

2026-08-10 Guided Meditation - Receiving Mettā and Widening the Circle of Goodwill 46:24
Monica Antunes
Gaia House :  Refreshing Confidence; Resourcing the Journey

2026-08-09 Guided Meditation - Mettā to Ourselves, a Loved One, and the Group 41:29
Mark Ovland
Gaia House :  Refreshing Confidence; Resourcing the Journey

2026-08-08 Guided Meditation - Establishing Mettā Practice - Easy Relationship and Oneself 42:59
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House :  Refreshing Confidence; Resourcing the Journey

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