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Meditation: Refuge in Living Presence
We spend great swaths of time in a trance that removes us from awareness of our body and senses. This meditation reconnects us by scanning through the body, including sounds and then resting in the field of awareness and aliveness. We practice relaxing and gently arriving again when thoughts carry us away; learning the pathway home to living presence.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Part 1: Healing Depression with Meditation
Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the suffering is the experience of severed belonging—of being imprisoned in the pain of separation, unworthiness, unlovability and hopelessness. These two talks explore several meditation practices that reconnect us with our natural aliveness, openheartedness and awareness. They empower us to develop our inner resources, energize us to awaken, free us from rumination and remind us that we are not our depressive thoughts and feelings. The growing realization of the loving awareness…Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: A Welcoming Heartspace
Our pathway to peace and happiness is through opening, with tenderness, to our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation guides us first to be awake in our body and senses, and then to include the changing flow of life in a spacious, kind heart. We close with a short verse from poet Dorothy Hunt – “Peace Is This Moment Without Judgment.”Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: The Center of Now
This meditation awakens our senses, then guides us to rest in the changing flow of experience. When the mind drifts, we are invited to relax back into full living presence, into that Beingness that is the center of now. “Listening to and feeling, the changing flow – right here, right in the center of now.”Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation = Cultivation, Development
The Buddha stated that we can cultivate and develop the mind, mettā is just one aspect of mental training. A trained mind has also far-reaching effects on others.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Relaxed and Alert
This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long, deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness that includes sounds, sensations, feelings, breath, and all experience. When the mind drifts from this open, awake awareness, we gently return, re-relaxing and resting in an easeful, alert presence. Recorded at Tara’s Wednesday night class, the meditation ends with a sense of melting into community – relaxed and alert.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Introduction to Mettā Meditation
Basic instructions for the practice of mettā meditationShared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Letting Go… Letting Be
This guided meditation invites us to imagine a clenched fist relaxing open, and explores this in releasing contractions in the body as well as the grip of thoughts. When we deeply let go and let be, our energy flows freely. We reconnect with our natural aliveness, love and awareness.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Listening to our Heart
True listening arouses an open receptive presence that can be truly healing. This meditation awakens a listening presence; first bringing that receptive awareness to sensations and sounds, and then offering that presence to the tenderness and vulnerability of our heart.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness
This meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical sensations and opening to sound. Then we sense how open awake awareness is receiving the moment to moment arising and passing life. In the final part of the practice, we explore how awake awareness is receiving the experience of our heart and offer blessings to our inner life and all living beings.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Introduction to Mettā Meditation
Basic instruction for the practice of mettā meditationShared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: mindfulness of breathing
Establishing mindfulness of the body sitting, then bringing awareness to the rhythm of breathing and the subtle energetic effects of inhaling and exhalingShared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Talk: welcome and introduction to insight meditation
Welcome and introduction to the workshop purpose: to deepen the practice of Insight Meditation, which harnesses the power of mindfulness to develop understanding in all aspects of our lives, which leads to greater ease, happiness, and peace of mindShared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: mindfulness of thoughts and emotions
Steadying awareness on the experience of breathing, then opening to sounds, thoughts and emotions coming and goingShared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: mindfulness of hearing and physical sensations
Steadying awareness on the experience of breathing, then opening to hearing and physical sensations through the whole bodyShared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: cultivating the heart energy of mettā or kindness
A short meditation to develop mettā, beginning by establishing well-being in the body then attuning to the energy of kindness at the heart-centreShared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness
We cut off from our aliveness when we are lost in thoughts and on auto pilot. This meditation arouses a receptivity to sensation from “the inside out,” opens the awareness to sound, and then invites a full resting in receptive, dynamic presence (from the archives). It doesn’t matter how many times the mind drifts. It’s the gentle re-arriving that retrains your heart and mind. Just to choose to come back… Perhaps to sense what might let go a little more… If there’s something that might want to relax a bit…Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Energy and Source
Our incessant thinking removes us from the full aliveness, vastness and mystery of Being. This guided practice helps us inhabit our energetic forms, and rest in the vast, formless stillness that gives rise to this ever creative living world.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Opening to the Mystery
This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go of whole body breathing. Once we have awakened the vitality and presence throughout the body, we have access to the formless dimension, the awareness that is our source. The meditation closes with “Walk Slowly”, from the poetry of Danna Faulds.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Relaxed and Awake
This guided meditation helps us find ease and wakefulness in our body and mind. With the breath as our home base, we offer a gentle and full attention to the changing waves. We close with a beautiful poem, “Walk Slowly,” by Danna Faulds.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Elizabeth Day: meditation: Awakening Factor of Energy or Effort
Effortless effort as the balance of alertness and tranquility; applying the effort needed to fend off entropy and avoid returning to the stresses and strains of an untrained mindShared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Awakening Factor of Equanimity
A 34-minute guided equanimity practice led by Jill Shepherd, from Auckland Insight Meditation.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Awakening Factor of Investigation
Establishing conditions that support the mind to know what is here, and what is neededShared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Awakening Factor of Tranquillity or Passaddhi
Establishing settledness, groundedness, attuning to the body's earthiness supports sittingn like a mountain, the mind becoming stable, calm, non-trembling, not agitatedShared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Awakening Factor of Pītī, Joy
Using mindfulness of breathing to support energising and lightening into subtle pleasantness and joyShared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Guided Meditation: Opening to the Sea of Presence
When our body and mind is relaxed, we become filled with a very awake, dynamic quality of presence. This meditation guides us in relaxing, opening our senses and resting in the vastness and inherent freedom of our own natural awareness.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Whole Body Breathing
This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go of whole body breathing. Once we have awakened the vitality and presence throughout the body, we have access to the formless dimension, the awareness that is our source.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Breathing Our Way to Peace & Freedom
This meditation guides us in collecting attention with an intentional long deep breath, and awakening a full relaxed presence as the breath resumes in its natural rhythm. Resting fully in this presence is the gateway to deep peace and inner freedom. “Little breath breathe me gently, row me, for I am the river I am learning to cross.” – W.S. MerwinShared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness
This meditation begins by guiding us through a scan: opening to inner space and aliveness, then to outer space, and then continuous space, filled with the light of awareness. We explore how every experience belongs to this infinite awake space of our Being, and can be held with tenderness and love.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Refuge of Living Presence
Our thoughts keep us removed from this living world. This guided practice invites us to open and relax with the moment-to-moment experience of our senses. It includes a poem by Ingrid Goff-Maidoff, “Wherever you are, Find a Trail.”Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying Yes to the Moment
When we are stressed, our conditioning is to tighten our body. We tense against our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation is a powerful practice of de-conditioning this reactivity by learning to relax back into presence, and to respond to difficulty by saying “yes.” Through relaxing back and saying “yes,” we discover our heart’s capacity for unconditional love.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Guided Meditation: The Sea of Awareness
Our attention habitually fixates on the foreground of thoughts and feelings, and fuels an unconscious identification with a sense of separate self. This meditation guides us in recognizing the awareness that is the background and source of all experience. By resting in and as the awareness that we are, all sense of separation dissolves revealing the vastness and oneness of Being.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Awake and Alive
This guided practice includes a body scan, and an opening to the awareness that includes all of life. From that wakeful openness we offer a relaxed attentiveness to the changing flow, and close with loving kindness to ourselves and our world. …calling on the presence of your heart and offering whatever blessing or wish you’d like to offer to yourself… whatever prayer of care. Then in that heart-space including other beings in this world. Holding the world in your heart and sensing your prayer of care for all beings. ~…Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Relaxing with Life
This meditation includes a mindful body scan and guidance in relaxing with the changing waves of experience. When we say “Yes” to the moment, we open to the sea of awareness that can include, with care, whatever arises.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Living Presence – with Body Scan
A key pathway to full presence is awakening through the body. This meditation guides us through a body scan, relaxing and receiving the play of sensations. We then deepen attention to the breath, and rest with the rhythmic waves of breathing, experiencing the background of the whole domain of physical aliveness.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Guided Meditation - Beginning the day, beginning response-ability
A 25-minute guided practice led by Ajahn Sucitto, from Bodhi College.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation bears fruit in wisdom
Meditation is part of the eight-fold path. We see there are no such things as objects just many, many subjects – and they all experience themselves as subjects.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Guided Standing Meditation
A 30-minute guided walking practice led by Ajahn Sucitto, from Bodhi College.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Recollecting our temple of meditation
The temple is built through contemplating, understanding and clearing the ground. The construction is through a process called recollection: to bring up a topic, linger on it and see what the resonances are.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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