By Jack Kornfield
To cultivate compassion, let yourself sit in a centered and quiet way. In this traditional form of practice you will combine a repeated inner intention with visualization and the evocation of the feeling of compassion.
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This is an exclusive interview with Sarah Blondin, author, speaker, and creator of the popular podcast 'Live Awake'. Recorded in August of 2020 with Albert Flynn DeSilver for Brilliant Writer Radio-Waking Up in Daily Life; Conversations on Creativity, Consciousness, and Citizenship.
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Sarah Blondin created this beautiful meditation specifically for SHE RECOVERS and shared it with us to kick off our day on Saturday (September 15th, 2018). A beautiful, powerful heart opener.
A montage of interviews with Meditating with the Body(R) founder, Reginald A. Ray, teachers Tami Simon and David Iozzi; and participants in a meditation retreat. Filmed during retreat at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado, where the course retreats are held.
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This is part of an interview Shinzen Young did with Stephanie Nash in January 2009.
The purpose of this interview was to introduce people to meditation and/or to Shinzen in a more casual, talk-show type format - thus Steph is playing the role of non-meditating talk-show host while Shinzen maintains his role as insightful, innovative teacher who speaks from deep experience & wisdom.
Shinzen Young spoke of how late night sitting can restructure how you experience the world, during a recent Southern California retreat. An all-night “Yaza” (or night sit) was scheduled to begin right after his dharma talk. Many people decided to do it after hearing this description.
Shinzen talks about the technique he calls "do nothing", which is associated with what other traditions call choiceless awareness, just sitting, the great perfection (dzogchen), and mahamudra. Shinzen's instructions for how to do this is: "Let whatever happens happen.
Learn to meditate in ten minutes a day with the Headspace app. Each day, it delivers a new guided meditation based on teachings that Andy Puddicombe, Co-founder of Headspace, learned during the ten years he spent studying meditation and mindfulness in monasteries across Asia.
‘Yoga Girl’ shares her tips on how to find the time and energy to fit meditation into a busy lifestyle.
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