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Led by Dr. Rick Hanson, PhD — psychologist, Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, and New York Times–bestselling author of Buddha’s Brain, Hardwiring Happiness, and Resilient. His books have sold over a million copies in English and been translated into 33 languages, and he’s taught at NASA, Google, Oxford, and Harvard.
Recent Wednesday 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.