Reflections and Guided Meditation

Reflections and Guided Meditation

Reflections and Guided Meditation

Reflections and Guided Meditation

Guided meditation and talk.

Overview and guided meditation.

This recording also includes Jake Dartington.

A Deeper Calm, Based on Insight.

Seeing Clearly.

Calming the Body and Mind.

Summary of what we have covered: the four truths and the three characteristics. This recording also includes Laura Bridgman.

The eight-fold path.

The four elements.

Impermanence and dependent arising.

The four Truths / Tasks, and the three levels of wisdom. Guided Meditation - Introduction to reflection and guided practice This recording also includes Laura Bridgman

Breathing with Kindness

'Wayfarer, there is no road' - reflections on the metaphor of the path.

Working with proliferating thoughts.

Tonglen

We Are Nature: reflections on the four elements.

Feelings and tonality.

The Four Elements

Mindfulness with Kindness

Mindfully responding to the suffering in our lives and in the world today.

A perspective on the four noble truths & eightfold path.

Finding peace within the fluctuating currents of pleasure and pain.

This is the third talk in a 3-part speaker series titled "Pathways of Skillful Action". Jenny Wilks talks about how, according to Buddhist ethical psychology, the mind is the source of speech and action, and that there are three specific skillful qualities of mind to be cultivated.

This is the second talk of a two-part talk titled "Mindfulness, Insight, and Compassion."

This is the second talk in a 3-part speaker series titled "Pathways of Skillful Action". Jenny Wilks talks about the importance of skillful speech in our practice of ethics, and about four kinds of skillful speech, which, according to the Buddha, involve avoiding false, divisive, harsh or meaningless speech. Jenny also discusses cultivating the opposites of these types of speech.

This is the first talk of a two-part talk titled "Mindfulness, Insight, and Compassion." According to Jenny Wilkes, "mindfulness" is becoming such a commonly used term that its depth and liberating potential may be underestimated or misunderstood. The Buddha's teaching on establishing mindfulness (the Satipatthana Sutta) invites us to cultivate mindfulness both "internally" i.e., a deep awareness of our inner experience in order to cultivate liberating insight; and "externally" i.e., an open-hearted awareness of others in order to cultivate an ethical and compassionate response. The two-part talk explores how together these can support our mindfulness practice so that it becomes, as the Buddha described, a "direct path to awakening."

This is the first talk in a 3-part speaker series titled "Pathways of Skillful Action". Jenny Wilks provides an overview of what we mean by ethics, and how the Buddha's list of ten paths of skillful action expand on the traditional five precepts and encompass body, speech, and mind. This talk focuses on the body and the first 3 precepts.

Some reflections on how we can overcome suffering and cultivate appreciative joy.

An exploration of how we create a sense of self that leads to dukkha.

An exploration of suffering and freedom, in relation to personal and global challenges.