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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
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.