Observing the Storm: Working with the Hinderances to Clarity
To work with Buddhism's Five Hindrances—desire, aversion, sleepiness, restlessness, and doubt—we must actually study them, observing and allowing …
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Heart Wisdom – Ep. 185 – Grey Matter with Michael Krasny
This week, Jack joins Michael Krasny for a conversation diving into mindfulness, loneliness, compassion, gratitude, suffering, meditation, and the Dharma. “With mindfulness you learn to…
Video: Centering Meditation
Rest in the reality of the present with mindful, loving awareness. Sit like a Buddha, steady and kind, with heart open, gracious and wise in the midst…
Video: Opening the Heart Meditation
Let yourself settle here on the Earth. Feel how the Earth can completely support you. You can let go. Let the heart be soft to receive whatever arises…
Video: Open, Spacious Awareness Meditation
Reflect on the value of a peaceful heart. What is it like to have a peaceful heart among the worldly winds of praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasur…
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 143 – Loving Witness Meditation
Notice as you feel the breath, that who you are is not this breath, or this body, but you are loving awareness, the loving witness.
Heart Wisdom – Ep. 142 – Becoming the Loving Witness
In this podcast, we explore how we can traverse the tumultuous polarities of life from the mindful and freeing perspective of the loving witness.
Video: Mindful Loving Witness Meditation
Gently acknowledge any strong waves of thought or emotion that pull you away from the breath. Let them rise and fall, then return to breath. Become th…
Video: Loving Witness Meditation
You are consciousness itself—open, spacious, letting the breath breathe itself. Notice how emotions, feelings and thoughts rise and fall like the wa…
Video: Loving Witness Dharma Talk
In any moment you can become the loving witness—it's why we sit in meditation. We learn to sit with both heartbreak and love—with whatever arises.…
Mindfulness of Feelings
Feelings are ever-present. They are a mysterious and rich dimension of our human life. But without mindfulness of them we can react automatically, hab…
Video: Loving Awareness Meditation
To recite the intention of reconciliation is to willingly plant a seed of reconnection and love in our heart. As we repeat each phrase, we turn our in…
