Guided instructions for recognizing ordinary moments when grasping and ill will lessen and the mind experiences a taste of ease or "cooling." Through body and breath practice, we learn to become more sensitive to these small moments of non-clinging and temporary liberation.
Guided instructions moving from body and breath through calming, subtle joy, and contentment toward the wholehearted attention of the third tetrad. The practice invites a gathering of body, heart, and mind while holding the map lightly and responding to the territory of present-moment experience.
An exploration of samādhi as a gathering of body, heart, and mind into wholeness. The talk considers how mindfulness, contentment, joy, and letting go support this natural settling, and how the steadiness and clarity of samādhi provide a foundation for insight and deeper freedom.
Continuing with the body and breath, these instructions explore how to recognize subtle qualities of quiet joy and pleasantness in the body and allow them to become a support for practice. Calming and quiet joy can nourish one another, deepening ease and steadiness in both sitting and walking meditation.
Exploring the second tetrad of mindfulness of breathing, with its movement from quiet joy and contentment toward experiencing and calming mental activity. The talk considers how recognizing and cultivating subtle sources of nourishment can support steadiness, reduce reactivity, and help us meet difficult experiences with greater ease.
A guided exploration of calming the body and breath, with practices for settling the body, softening effort, and cultivating ease. The instructions emphasize patience and receptivity, while offering ways to work skillfully with agitation, distraction, and other experiences that arise.
Exploring the first four steps of mindfulness of breathing: knowing the breath, experiencing the whole body, and inviting the body to calm. The talk emphasizes finding a sustainable balance of energy and relaxation, supported by interest, patience, friendliness, and trust in the unfolding of practice.
Beginning with the preliminary practices that establish a foundation for meditation, these instructions explore mindfulness of the body in sitting, walking, and everyday movement, with an emphasis on curiosity, kindness, ease, and continuity of awareness.
An introduction to the Ānāpānasati Sutta and its sixteen-step path of mindfulness of breathing, exploring how calming and insight practices support one another in cultivating steadiness, clarity, and freedom from clinging.
This guided meditation in renunciation of expectations, grudges, and judgement toward the benefactor/friend, toward the past, future and present, towards ourselves and the larger society is inspired by Pascal Auclair, who was inspired in this by Ajahn Succito.
