Discover what causes suffering and learn how we can rest in fullness with the experiences we are already having.
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Meditations and Talks
Compassionate Assertiveness
This talk from the San Rafael Meditation focuses on warming the heart and assertiveness that is grounded in the underlying ventures of Buddhism that have to do with wise speech, action, livelihood, and conduct.
Healthy Desire, Benevolence Toward Yourself, and Self-Compassion
In this talk from the San Rafael Meditation group, we explore warming the heart and benevolence towards oneself in the form of self-compassion.
“Mindfulness of Breathing” focuses on steadiness of mind through a fundamental practice of mindfulness of breathing as a way to be mindful of the body.
Learn six way for cultivating the mind and our attention to being malleable and wielding, so we can use it well.
Explore how to cultivate steadiness of mind from the top-down deliberate regulation of attention.
Explore why it is useful to consider the undying physical, living basis of states of conscience that have been exhalted by the traditions of the world.
Why and How to Cultivate Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson, Ph.D. It focuses on cultivating personal strengths into happiness by training yourself to do good that lasts, and brings happiness, peace, and a mind of boundless love.
This meditation and talk focuses on the framework of this year’s exploration as it relates to Neurodharma: the Deepest Roots to the Highest Happiness – through seven fundamental qualities of awakening.
Metta for the Whole World: A Meditative Reflection
“Metta” means lovingkindness. A beautiful way to compensate for the hard-wired tendency to fix our attention and affections on mainly one person, or small group of people, is to deliberately cultivate and practice an attitude of compassion and kindness toward people in general.
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