Podcasts about metta

Suzy Solar pres. Pure Trance Sessions 728 01. Will Rad & Sinéad McCarthy Were Going Home (Extended Mix) | Bemind Records 02. Dan Thompson, Sue McLaren Blind Faith (Extended Mix) | Into The Abyss Music 03. Damian Wasse Morning Sun (Extended Mix) | 2Rock Recordings 04. Chris SX LEO (Extended Mix) | High Voltage Recordings 05. James Black Presents Voices In The Dark (Extended Mix) | Create Music 06. Ronski Speed, That Girl, BiXX There Is Purpose (Dan Cooper Extended Remix) | Reason II Rise: UPLIFT 07. Richard Durand & Driftmoon Avalanche (Extended Mix) | Black Hole Recordings 08. Ruslan Khatmullin Magnesia (Extended Mix) | 2Rock Uplifting 09. Metta & Glyde The Same Silence (Extended Mix) | Subculture 10. Max Denoise, Rinkarna & Claire Willis Zelaous (XLM Extended Remix) | Suanda Voice 11. Doppenberg, Frank Spector ETERNITY (Extended Mix) | Find Your Harmony 12. Factor B A Gift To The Earth (Extended Mix) | Theatre Of The Mind

Metta is een Boeddhistisch concept dat 'liefdevolle vriendelijkheid' betekent. Ik vind het fijn om rond de feestdagen wat extra metta te beoefenen, omdat het goed bij de Kerstgedachte past

For episode 276, we are continuing a new series on the Metta Hour, centered on kids, in honor of Sharon's first children's book, Kind Karl, released on December 9th! Written with Jason Gruhl, this illustrated picture book is for 4-8 year-olds and is a children's adaptation of Sharon's beloved book Lovingkindness. In this podcast series, Sharon speaks with educators, caregivers, and researchers about the ways meditation, mindfulness, and lovingkindness can impact children of all ages and the family systems that support them. For the fifth episode of the series, Sharon speaks with Sumi Loundon Kim. Sumi is the Buddhist chaplain at Yale University. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, she is the founding teacher of Buddhist Families of Durham (NC). She is the author of Blue Jean Buddha; The Buddha's Apprentices; Sitting Together and of the children's book Goodnight Love: A Bedtime Meditation Story. In this conversation, Sumi and Sharon speak about:Sumi's early life in Zen communitySumi's first visit to IMS at age 16The value of spiritual practice during adolescence Teaching meditation to kids through songBenefits of group practice for parents and kidsWorking with the five sensesImplicit learning, leading by exampleNurturing kindness in self-talkCreating a home as a sanctuaryDesignated device-free family timeMeditation for college studentsSocial connection promoting self-regulationPsychological fluency A bedtime meditation for kids: “Goodnight Love”Get a copy of Sumi's book “Goodnight Love” right here.You can learn more about Sharon's brand-new children's book, Kind Karl, right here.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Here is my End of Year Countdown as aired on www.afterhours.fm. I think 2025 was a pretty good one. I hope you like my picks. Happy Holidays and a very Happy New Year.     1. John O'Callaghan - Music Takes Me Higher (Extended Mix) 2. Steve Allen - Falling (Extended Mix) 3. Allen Watts - Open Your Mind (Extended Mix) 4. Ratty - Sunrise (Here I Am) (Robin McIlmoyle & G Summers Rework) 5. Talla 2XLC & Fragma - Look At You Now 6. Mike Bound - Where R U Now (Extended Mix) 7. Paipy - Ocean (Extended Mix) 8. Code 2 & Jessica Doherty - Wait For You (Extended Mix) 9. Steve Allen & Daniele Filaretti - Nothing Is Impossible (Extended Mix) 10. Dan Stone - With You (Sean Tyas Extended Remix) 11. Steve Allen & Ren Faye - Last Star In The Sky (Extended Mix) 12. Robbie Seed - Stargazing (Extended Mix) 13. Rene Ablaze & Ren Faye - Reckless (Extended Mix) 14. Laucco - Malevolence (Extended Version) 15. Davidi - Follow Your Dreams (Extended Mix) 16. Myde - The Unknown (Extended Mix) 17. Laucco - Tor Lara 18. Will Atkinson - Bamboozled (Extended Mix) 19. Miss Cortex & DJ T.H. feat Kanae Asaba - Love Is In The Air (Dan Iwan Extended Remix) 20. Daniele Filaretti & Lyd14 - Strength Inside (Extended Mix) 21. Ciaran McAuley with Sean Tyas & Clara Yates - Runaway (Extended Mix) 22. Max Denoise, Rinkarna & Joanna Angelina - Goodbye (Extended Mix) 23. Daniele Filaretti - Doubt and Fear (Extended Mix) 24. Artena & Ren Faye - One In A Million (Extended Mix)   Tune of the Year 25. Metta & Glyde - The Light Within (Original Mix)

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1 Doppenberg - Worlds Apart (Extended Mix) 2 Ferry Corsten - Eternity (Genix Extended Reprint) 3 Doppenberg - Starlight (Extended Mix) 4 E1forya, Kätsu - Hypnosis 5 Norni - Summer Melody (Original Mix) 6 Tony Hang - Secret Haven (Extended Mix) 7 Metta & Glyde - Focus (Extended Mix) 8 A.R.D.I. - Endless Flight (Extended Mix) 9 Kosheen, Ferry Corsten - Catch (Extended Mix) 10 Maarten de Jong - Super Ding (Extended Mix) 11 Chicane feat. Moya Brennan x OnTune - Saltwater (Extended Mix) 12 Allan Morrow - Fragments (Extended Mix) 13 Lostly - Alone (Original Mix) 14 Nu NRG & Andrea Ribeca - Connective (Extended Mix)

We have Mike Monaghan on the show today and covering the “Birth of an ETF.” He’s going to talk about the Founders ETF and its new launch. We’re also going to talk a little bit about what it takes to get an ETF up and running. From a compliance perspective, remember, there’s no guarantee of future performance. https://youtu.be/o-m3PYHKXqk?si=qBaHkJpUt7xgdpjG Transcript of “The Birth of an ETF” 00:00 The Founders ETF Frazer Rice (00:00.986)Welcome back, Mike. Michael Monaghan (00:02.616)Frazer, it’s great to be back. Frazer Rice (00:04.4)You are at an interesting point in time right now. You’re about to start up Founders ETF and I think you’re about to get trading authorization to get going. Maybe tell us a little bit about the process to set up an ETF. Then we’ll dive into the strategy a little bit. Michael (00:21.25)Yeah, absolutely right. We should start trading on the SIBO Thursday, so two days from now. And we’ve launched our first fund, the Founders 100, that owns the 100 best founder-led companies. I’d be happy to go through some of the process that it takes to set up an ETF. Frazer Rice (00:40.014)Love it. ETFs are the main way to go now in terms of getting an inveestment cvhicle up and running. What has your experience been around? The Popularity of the ETF Structure Michael (00:52.014)Yeah, so ETFs have become the primary investment vehicle for a few reasons. Let’s outline those reasons. Then we can go through some of the steps that it takes to set up an ETF. So on the advantage side of an ETF, they’re typically a bit lower cost than traditional mutual fund products. Importantly, they’re tax advantaged. So there’s no gains or losses that occur during the normal ETF growth phase. Everything that happens within the ETF is done with what’s called an authorized participant. So you do exchanges. And so there’s no capital gains that are assigned to the investors. As long as they hold the ETF, a tax trigger only occurs when they actually sell the ETF. Finally, it’s a great way to get exposure to the market. So whether you want to own a broad market index, one of the legacy indexes, or a vehicle like ours. That gives you in one single trade, rather than having to guess who’s going to win. Is Nvidia going to win or Palantir who’s going to win? You can own a hundred of the best winners in the market in one single stock ticker. In our case, FFF. Frazer Rice (02:07.364)So let’s dive into that theme a little bit. As you said, it’s the top hundred founder led companies. First and foremost, public I assume, private, you’re not diving in those waters. Public vs Private Michael (02:20.59)Correct. So these are the hundred best publicly traded founder led stocks. And we generally fish from the 200 largest founder led publicly traded stocks. So a lot of these are names and founders that are very well recognized. Whether it’s Elon at Tesla or a Mark at Metta, Larry at Oracle, Rich Fairbanks at Capital One. These are all very well known founders. They’re great entrepreneurs who are leading highly scalable, very high performing publicly traded stocks. 02:53 Understanding Founder-Led Companies Frazer Rice (02:53.914)So let’s define founder a little bit. Obviously we have sort of the cult of personality around high-end CEOs. It sounds like you’re identifying companies that have been founded. The people who are running them not only founded them, but they scaled them. They have now gotten them to a level of maturity. That’s different from the typical public company that we find in the S &P 500. Definition of Founder Michael (03:19.104)Yeah. So first let’s define a founder. Then let’s talk about why we think the founder led companies outperform a traditional S&P company. We define the founder as being a chief executive leader. It could be chief executive officer, could be chief technology officer. Sometimes that say a scientific or medical company, would be the chief scientific or chief medical officer. And that person conceived and founded the company, took it from zero to one. It’s their imprint that has guided it over its 10 or 20 or 30 year period. That’s taken it from a small private company to a venture backed company to a large publicly traded company. And so the idea being the person that founded it continues to run it to this day. We talk about the fact that we own an Nvidia that Jensen still runs. But we don’t own Intel. We own Meta because Mark still runs it, but we don’t own Google. We own Dell computer because Michael Dell still runs it. But we don’t own Apple. We own Capital One because Rich Fairbank still runs it, but we don’t own American Express. Investment Process Frazer Rice (04:25.86)Got it. So lots of things to get into here. How does it a company get on your radar screen? And then ultimately, how does it get off of it? Michael (04:35.806)Great question. the getting on the screen is fairly mechanical. We look at the 200 largest by market capitalization founder led stocks. So we look at all U.S. listed. So it could be listed on the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ, but it has to be U.S. listed. We then look at the 200 largest. And from there, we select the 100 best using a quantitative factor model. So I’m have a Sanford Bernstein background and so do some of the folks here. And so for folks who are familiar with Bernstein’s research, we use a Bernstein factor model to pick the best, the hundred best names out of the 200 largest. That’s how they get on our radar. And to get off is quite simple if they retire. So if a CEO announces he’s retiring, per the prospectus, we have 90 days to sell the stock. once we, so for example, Mr. Buffett recently stepped down from Berkshire Hathaway. And so we sell Berkshire Hathaway on his announcement and no longer own the stock. Frazer Rice (05:38.0)things like corporate mergers or divestitures or maybe even a reclassification of stock where the founder stays on in some capacity but their decision making has been reduced. How do you analyze that? 05:54 The Investment Strategy Behind the ETF Michael (05:54.326)Yeah, so there is some human overlay judgment calls here and the founder has to be an executive officer leading the company. So they can’t just run a division. They can’t just be chairman of the board. They have to be the executive in charge of running the company. Frazer Rice (06:14.0)And if for, I guess one of the exits possibly would be if, and I don’t know if this is even possible, but if NVIDIA were to take over Meta and there isn’t room for Jensen and Mark in the same suite, how do you analyze something like that? Michael (06:34.253)So in the business combinations where you have two founder-led companies or a non-founder-led company swallowed up by a founder-led company, as long as an original founder remains, it remains in the portfolio. So we’ve had some stocks that had, say, three to four co-founders. And as long as one of those co-founder remains, it remains in the portfolio. Voting Shares Frazer Rice (06:58.352)So one of the things that’s a bee in my bonnet is the concept of having shares where, in a sense, they’re super majority or voting components and then shareholders that have less decision making authority to act as a check and balance around the company. Is that something you’re not really that worried about or is it something that may be a factor that’s important later on? Michael (07:24.525)So we actually think that’s one of the opportunities that this exists. Like one of the things that we haven’t talked about yet is why is all this alpha there? Why is this uncaptured alpha there for us to go get? And we think historically in the past, active money managers have sometimes shied away from these founder led companies because to your point, Frazier, oftentimes the founder has managed to have super voting control, 10 to one shares, 101 shares. So they completely control the company. And some of these larger active money management complexes have said, well, we as the shareholder, we need to be able to have a vote and we’re going to underown these stocks. We have the opposite view. We think these founders are special. So we think that by the time a Mark or a Elon has driven their company into the public markets, they’ve showed that they know how to set the vision, ruthlessly execute and generate value for the shareholders. Concerns? And so we’re not concerned by super voting structures. Oftentimes those are the stocks that we want to own because it’s the founder that’s in control and setting the direction of the business and generating high returns for the shareholders. We view it as you either believe in them and you own the stock or you don’t believe in them and sell the stock. We’re not interested in other people’s getting on the board and monkeying with the decisions of the founders. Frazer Rice (08:30.255)Is this it? What is it about the founders, especially for those that go from zero to one, then to scale, and then to shepherding a mature business? What makes them better and what drives the alpha that you’re trying to seek? In terms of putting together a portfolio of these types of companies? 09:01 The Importance of Founders in Business Michael (09:02.891)Yeah, so the great ones tend to be a bit irreverent. They tend to be highly visionary. They tend to be charismatic communicators and relentless in their execution ability. They’ve got a great ability to pivot if a change needs to be made. And rthe moral authority to set a tone to generate very high rates of return. We see it sort of over and over and over in these founder led companies. And if you look at some of the studies that we’ve done. There’s a study that Bain Capital, Bain had done years ago in combination with Harvard Business Review, founder led companies tend to outperform non-founder led companies in say the S &P 500 by 3X. So it’s this personality type of high vision and high execution tends to drive outsize returns. And it’s a bit of a self-selecting process. What makes Founders Unique? If you think about it by the time any of these founders that we own or talk about have got to the public market. They first had to identify an opportunity to go after. They had to develop a great product by listening to their customers. And they’ve shown that they can scale all the way from a series A round, B, C, D, all the way investing and generating high rates of return in the private markets. Transitions of Founders to Executives They get to the public markets, continue to do that. And now you get a little bit of an effect of a echo of that, of now all of sudden you’re in the public markets. If you get enough scale, you have this highly effective business. Now you’re getting relatively cheap capital that you’re feeding into your business through the public markets. And now you continue to grow. Frazer Rice (10:42.096)Just to summarize at least what I’m hearing is that they’ve gotten to the point of becoming public. They’ve been able to say no to losing control in exchange for either putting some liquidity back in their pocket or otherwise moving on. And so they’ve almost ratified their vision and message and they keep going. And by the fact that they’re public, there’s enough liquidity for everyone else out there in terms of their investments. So it ends up being a win-win. Michael (11:11.157)I think so. That’s what we see. Frazer Rice (11:13.316)So one thing that I’ve been sort of reading about and thinking about is the concept that the number of public companies is becoming less, well, it’s decreasing, and that many people are able to stay private for longer. Do you worry that your universe is going to get too small to provide sort of a canvas for your ideas here? 12:02 Market Trends and Future Outlook Michael (11:37.549)Let’s talk about three phases of that. We don’t, we actually see the data showing that there’s more and more opportunities within founder led. So let’s look at history and then let’s move to the future. So historically, probably about the time you and I joined the securities business, they would actually take the, to your point, they would take the founder, they would kick out this charismatic founder. They would put in some mid-level proctor or GE middle level manager to be the you know, the suit in the room to take the company public. And that was sort of in the late nineties and people figured out that wasn’t such a good idea. So if you actually look at the chart, there’s more and more founders staying and leading their public, their, their publicly traded companies. That’s number one. Number two. Yes. We have seen some companies stay private, obviously Stripe, SpaceX, but we are now seeing, for example, SpaceX coming to the public markets. Eli is talking about coming next year. so we, we haven’t seen it so far impact the pool with which we can fish in. And as I mentioned, that’s what we saw historically. Public Markets and the Future In the future, think, Frazer, I think we’re going to start to see a conversion of public and private markets, meaning these private mega cap companies have liquidity. And I think that you’ll see more and more ability to trade those stocks almost in public liquidity. So I think these two markets are converging. So I think that Not only do we have plenty of founders in the traditional public markets, I think that the liquidity and the big privates is going to converge to a public market style shortly anyway. Frazer Rice (13:13.232)You’re in a curious time as far as launching an ETF around this concept. I know a lot of people are wary of Mag-7 and ultra valuations and issues related to that. How do you respond to that concept that a lot of the growth has taken place in seven, maybe seven out of the hundred that you’ve chosen? Debunking the Mag-7 (to the Mag-3) Michael (13:33.356)Yeah, so that’s a misconception. We see Mike Saylor get on TV and wave his arms around it, but it’s not really true. First of all, what’s interesting, if you tear apart the Mag-7, it’s actually the Mag-3. The outperformance in the Mag-7 has come from Meta, Tesla, and NVIDIA. So it’s not just the Mag-7, it’s a founder led. And now you say, well, that’s a small sample set. Let’s look at a bigger sample set. So if you look at the NASDAQ 100, for example, It’s actually the 20 founder led companies have driven most of the outperformance over the last 25 years. And what I’m about to tell you about the S &P 500 probably won’t surprise you. It’s the 37 founder led companies that have driven most of the outperforming the S &P 500. So the outperformance is coming from founders, not from any specific part of the market. And one of the things that we think is great about this ETF is to avoid concentration. 14:50 Risk Management I know you’re really familiar with the concept of active share and that’s how different you are than the S &P 500. We have an 85 % active share to the S &P 500. So if you own the founders 100 ETF, you have much different exposure to the market than say the S &P 500. And so we think it helps reduce some of that concentration. We’ve done some things to make sure that we are diversified. First of all, we do own 100 stocks. Diversification So really good diversification across that. And then number two, while we run a market weight portfolio, we cap. No stock can be bigger than 7 % of the portfolio, so we don’t get out of balance at any point. So we think that we mitigate some of those concentration risks and we allow people to invest in innovation without being over concentrated to any one name, say the MAG-7, for example. So we think that we’re giving our investors really good exposure to innovation through the founders, but not exposing them to pre-existing market concentrations. And then finally remind everyone It’s not the MAG-7, it’s not the NASDAQ-100, it’s not the S &P-500, it’s the founders within each of these are what are driving the outsized performance in those analytical groups. Frazer Rice (15:36.218)So from a diversification standpoint, obviously not everything in one name, the 7 % cap you described, do you have sector concentration guidelines as well? Michael (15:45.749)We don’t have sector concentration guidelines, but if you look at the nature of the portfolio, we were fairly well diversified. We’re slightly overweight tech and financials versus say the S &P, but we own healthcare stocks, own consumer stocks, we own energy stocks. So we’re giving you a broad exposure to the market. Leverage Frazer Rice (16:05.924)Let’s talk about leverage for a second. I know a lot of people are trying to juice returns by piggybacking off of other people’s money on that front. Does that have a place in your ETF? Michael (16:17.004)So there’s no leverage in the ETF. We sort of believe in get rich the slow way. I like to tell people that it’s very hard to make money in the stock market over the short term, but it’s not particularly difficult over the very long term. think Mr. Munger and Mr. Buffett used to talk about this. the idea being, leverage can impact you in times that are not favorable. So we believe in just owning the stocks unlevered, let them compound over very long periods of time. And we think that by doing that, we and our shareholder, we think our shareholders can generate wealth over very long periods of time. Taxes Frazer Rice (16:54.98)So tax efficiency, the concept of holding period, does that play into your process at all? Michael (17:04.316)So remember within the ETF, as long as you’re managing your trading properly within the ETF, there’s no tax implications inside of it for your shareholders. Your shareholders only would be impacted at selling. So assuming they hold the stocks for over a year, any gains would be long-term capital gains treatment. Frazer Rice (17:27.024)And when you’re describing the investor profile that you’re looking to attract here, who is this for? Michael (17:35.916)Yeah, so the person that, you we really think it’s appropriate for you if you have a five year or more holding period and you want to have long-term capital appreciation. You know, if your goal is to be exposed to the best minds and public securities, that’s the founder led companies, and you want to compound your wealth over a very long period of time and have a high probability of outperforming the traditional broad market indexes, this ETF is designed for you. 17:59 Investor Profile and ETF Positioning Frazer Rice (18:04.705)And as you’re sort of outlining that profile and for those people who are trying to figure out where this fits in from an equity allocation perspective, you’re in charge in many ways of the spoke of a hub and spoke component of people are really sort of looking at indexes as the base of their equity portfolio. What are you looking for? What kind of benchmarks do you sort of measure yourself against? Michael (18:35.007)Yeah, so we think this is absolutely a core holding. So if you’re looking to build out you or your client’s portfolio, we think this should sit at the core. It is on the growth side, so it’s core growth. We think that it is a one-for-one replacement for, the NASDAQ 100. Or, for example, somebody holding the triple Qs. We think this is a better holding than the triple Qs. So we benchmark ourselves against them and against the S &P 500. Ee look at beating those two broad market indexes, generating better risk return for our investors. Frazer Rice (19:13.019)For those listeners that are out there and want to find out more, what’s the best way that they can either get a hold of you or maybe even better, do you have a ticker symbol ready that people can discover? FFF and Contact Information Michael (19:25.215)Yeah, absolutely. So the ticker is FFF. So that’s the FFF ETF that we’ll trade on. And investors can find that at their favorite brokerage firm, whether they’re Schwab customers, Interactive Brokers customers, Fidelity customers, trades under one ticker, just like a stock. Frazer Rice (19:44.365)And let’s take, we have a few minutes to go here, which is great. Your experience in terms of establishing the ETF, maybe a couple of some of the touch points when you went from vision to execution here, what was the process? Michael (20:00.106)Yeah, so ETF has a few basic processes that are regulated under the 1940 Securities Act. And so a lot of those rules are set up to protect the end investors. So for example, the securities live within a trust. So we set up our own trust. Some people use a mingled trust. We thought it was better for our end investors to have our own trust that we set up that has an independent trust board that oversees to make sure that we’re executing our strategies as we’ve outlined in the prospectus to make sure that we’re Doing the best we can for our investors. You’ve got to set that up There’s a few firms that do the plumbing for the for the ETFs would say US Bank is probably the largest player. So US Bank provides our our fund custody and fund administration and then there’s just a few other vendors in the space that sort of help with all the plumbing to make sure that the ETF runs smoothly. So it’s probably a six month process if you stay really focused to get all of that set up. 20:58 Navigating the ETF Launch Process Frazer Rice (21:03.313)You get that set up, how do you approach the Schwabs and the Fidelitys and the other platforms to make sure that people can access, buy, sell, whatever they want to do with your ETF? Michael (21:14.347)Yeah, that’s a great question. So the online brokerages typically put you on the platform as soon as you’re listed on a major US exchange. So you’ve got to get listed on NASDAQ, NYSE or CIBO. We chose CIBO. So again, on the traditional online brokers, you’re there day one. And then the big wire houses, JP Morgan, Goldman, Morgan Stanley, BAML, they typically have a few hurdles that you’ve got to get through, whether it’s daily trading liquidity assets under management. And over time, as you run the wickets through their process, you’re added to those platforms. Macro Issues? Frazer Rice (21:48.721)We live in a political age and a time when there’s just chaos everywhere, different types of rules in order to allocate capital. If you’re an investor trying to guess what’s happening politically, et cetera, that are difficult, you must be positive as far as the environment for founders to find success in this country and beyond. Is there anything that you’re looking for to make sure that those conditions hold? Michael (22:18.225)Yeah, we don’t really look at the macro or political backgrounds. think over very long periods of time, U.S. innovation outperforms. so we sort of we think that, again, one of the great things with investing in founders is they keep adapting as the background changes behind them. So we think over very long periods of time, the U.S. has great economic growth. And for those people that have worried about little blips along the way, we think the founders are the absolute best at mitigating those blips. Frazer Rice (22:48.334)I like to say you bet against America at your own peril and it sounds like from a founder perspective it’s still a great place for them to locate their businesses and grow them here. Michael (23:01.042)Absolutely. 23:50 Final Thoughts and Contact Information Frazer Rice (23:02.971)Just to reiterate, FFF is the ticker symbol for people to find it. any other contact points for people to find you if they’re interested in what you’re putting together. Michael (23:15.613)Yeah, so we have a great website at FounderETFs.com. can go check out there or anyone’s happy to email me, just michael at FounderETFs.com. Happy to chat with anyone who has interest about the portfolio, the strategy, or what we’re building. Frazer Rice (23:32.197)Well, great to have you back on, Mike. Thank you for putting up with my attempt at looking like Steve Jobs. It’s 25 degrees in New York here, and I am the stupid one who’s not in California or somewhere warm. appreciate you taking the time to be on and talking about your new product. Michael (23:48.011)Yeah, it was great to be on here. Really a huge fan of your podcast and just the level of guests that you’re able to interview and help educate your viewers. Frazer Rice (23:56.849)Mike, thanks for being on. Michael (23:59.061)Thanks a lot, Frazer. https://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Actually-Intelligent-Decision-Making-1-ebook/dp/B07FPQJJQT/ Previously with Mike Monaghan ETF EDUCATION ARTICLES ON ETF.COM

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon! It's Day 19 of our 30-day mini-meditation series and we'll practice a loving-kindness meditation, a Buddhist meditation called Metta Bhavana. Metta can be translated as 'loving-kindness' while 'Bhavana' means 'development'. So the Metta Bhavana is the 'Development of Loving Kindness'.This gentle guided meditation invites you into the heart-centered practice of loving-kindness, or metta. Soften the nervous system, reconnect with compassion, and extend goodwill—beginning with yourself and rippling outward to others.

Tracklist: 1. Betibwe - Feel The It (Extended Mix) 2. Mark Sherry & Marcella Woods - Can't Live Without Your Love (Darren Porter Extended Remix) 3. Craig Connelly - New York Sunday (Sequence Six Extended Remix) 4. Clara Yates & Daxson - Turn Back (Extended Mix) 5. Aerial Beat - You (Extended Mix) 6. Astrofegs & Mercurial Virus & K-PAXian - Heartbeat of Arrakis (Extended Club Mix) 7. Angelus & Ren Faye - With Me Now (Extended Mix) 8. Allen Watts - Back 2 U (Extended Mix) 9. Darren Porter - Moana (Unkonscious Theme 2026) 10. Driftmoon & XiJaro & Pitch - Rise Again (Extended Mix) 11. Metta & Glyde - The Same Silence (Extended Mix) 12. Doppenberg & Frank Spector - ETERNITY (Extended Mix) 13. XiJaro & Pitch - Yolo (Extended Mix) 14. DIM3NSION - Zarabanda (Extended Mix) 15. Allen Watts - Perseverance (Extended Mix) 16. Sneijder & Holly Kirby - Home (Extended Mix) 17. Ronski Speed & Talla 2XLC - Falling Deeply (Extended Mix) 18. Lab4 - Concept of Love (AlexMo Extended Remix) 19. Felix - Don't You Want Me (KI/KI Extended Remix) 20. TON TB & Craig Connelly & CIRCA96 - Electronic Malfunction (Extended Mix)

00. Episode 317 (Intro) - Trance All Over The World01. Markus Schulz & Emma Hewitt - Safe From Harm (William Schneider Remix) [Coldharbour Recordings] 02. FEEL - Чудное Мгновенье 03. Orjan Nilsen, Mark Sixma, Clara Yates, nilsix - Through It All [Black Hole Recordings] 04. SICKCODE, Kiddy & Galaxyy - The Andrea Letter [Suanda Voice] 05. Mearzie - Stargazer (Craig Connelly Remix) [Blue Dot Trance] 06. Lasse Macbeth - As We Are [AVA White] 07. Pralle & Kaul And Manon Polare - Love Is Here To Stay [Amsterdam Trance Records] 08. Lone Raver - Synthetic Paradise [State Control Records] 09. Cloudhunter - Fireflies [FSOE] 10. Trance Reserve, ANSHERY - Hypnotic [Trancemission] 11. Chicane, Moya Brennan & onTune - Saltwater [Armada Music] 12. Dennis Sheperd, LK & Sarah Ikumu - Higher (Richard Durand Remix) [A Tribute To Life] 13. Rik Crofts - Andara [Molekular Sounds] 14. Roman Messer & Roxanne Emery - Lost & Found (Festival Mix) [Suanda Music] 15. Kevin Cornine & 4YÛ - Dream [Interplay Global] 16. Christopher Corrigan - A World Together [Suanda Music] 17. Speed DJ & DJ Spaceman - Quasar [FFR] 18. Inversed - Sunrise [One Forty Music] 19. Peter Miethig - Equilibrium [Suanda True] 20. E1forya & Kätsu - Hypnosis [Easteria] 21. NrgMind - Blazar [Suanda Dark] 22. Amos & Riot Night + Themina - Thoughts [FSOE] 23. Metta & Glyde - Focus [Dreamstate] 24. Armin van Buuren - Sonic Samba (Rising Star Remix) [Armind (Armada)] 25. Sam Laxton - Knock Out [Unkonscious Recordings] 26. The Rocketman & Veracocha - Carte Blanche [Armada Music] 27. Scooter - I'm Lonely (Styles & Breeze Remix) [SHEFFIELD TUNES]

Welcome to Subatomic Sessions 086 and the final mix for the year Big Thank You to everyone that has listened in over the past year, and beyond. As always, 24 of the latest and best tracks carefully selected over the past month! Hope you all enjoy, and have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! 1. Andy Newtz & Tara Greene - Set Me Free (Extended Mix) 2. Ryan.L - Paradise (Will Rad Extended Remix) 3. Gerlach Gerrit & Alaera - Till Forever (Extended Mix) 4. Cenk Basaran - Anymore (Extended Mix) 5. Siege (NZ) - Wait For Me (Extended Mix) 6. Asteroid & Pharos T - Time & Space (Extended Mix) 7. Transaphonic - Guide Me Home (Extended Mix) 8. Kaselia & Dalmoori - Aviation (Extended Mix) 9. Christopher Corrigan & Fawzy - Peaceful Missile (Extended Mix) 10. N-Sking & Ren Faye - Side Quest (Extended Mix) 11. Lone Raver - Morning Sun  (Extended Mix) 12. Robinito - Anima Aeterna (Extended Mix) 13. U-G - Under The Same Sky (Original Mix) 14. Corrado Baggieri - Sun In Her Eyes (Extended Mix) 15. Laucco - Divinum Arcanum (Extended Mix) 16. Overtime - Sirens Call (Extended Mix) 17. Dalphon - Etain (Original Mix) 18. Inversed - Sunrise (Original Mix) 19. Victor Lobanov - Hard Love (Extended Mix) 20. Fawzy & Jameson Tullar - Soul Shelter (Extended Mix) 21. Max Denoise & Ren Faye & Claire Willis - Follow The Sun (Extended Mix) 22. Metta and Glyde - Focus (Extended Mix) 23. Dan Cooper - New Dawn Rises (Extended Mix) 24. Andy Paterson - Ballistic (Extended Mix)

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

1: AUGIS - Shut Up! 2: HARLEY GIRL - Nobody (Like You)3: MARTEN HØRGER – Tom's Diner4: CLARKE & EAST - Sonic Solutions (Yeke) j.edit 5: HASKELL - I Need You Baby (Extended Mix)6: PLASTICA – Best Friend7: LISA KORVER - Focal8: SAM ALFRED – Spaceman LISTENERS' CHOICE8:         Agnelli & Nelson - El Niño  10: EMPIRE OF THE SUN - Alive (Alok Remix) 11: DENIZ KOYU - Blacklight (Extended Mix)12: BLR X AMBER REVIVAL – Feeling Good13: SILK, AUDIEN & XIRA - One Last Dance (Extended Mix) TRIED & TESTED14: VINTAGE CULTURE, GABSS - Lost (Extended) 15: LUPO.THEBOY - Afters (Extended Mix)16: LA LA – Touch Me17: DIVASI, PANCAKE & OLAV BASOSKI - Don't Turn Your Back  GUEST SELECTION:  MARIO PIU Mario_Piu_aka_DJ_Arabesque_-_The_Vision_Mario Più, Don Paolo - Serendipity (Extended Mix) [Autektone Records] THE WARM UP SELECTION 18: NOGE - Drop It Please 19: RUNGE - Closer20: CLAUDE VONSTROKE – Noche Clara21: ABOVE & BEYOND AND MALOU -Letting Go (Above & Beyond Extended Club Mix) THE MAINSTAGE MIX  22: PAUL DENTON - Ping23: MATTY RALPH - NRG (Radio Edit)24: LIAM WILSON & MDDLTN - Inside My Soul (Extended Mix)25: JOYHAUSER - Lost In The Night (Extended Mix)26: TAI WOFFINDEN & LIGHTFORCE - Join Me (Extended Mix)27: METTA & GLYDE - Focus (Extended Mix)28: TOURIST – In Unison29: KI / KI – Can't Stop Loving You 

A weekly podcast of progressive and uplifting Pure Trance music, presented by Solarstone. Solarstone pres. Pure Trance Radio Episode 469 01. Black 8 - Higher We Fly (Oudix Remix) [Afterglow] 02. Thysma - Intimate Realm [ZeroThree] 03. Yahel - DNA (Rafael Osmo Rework) [Osmo Music] 04. Neptun505 - One Hour to Daylight [Pure Progressive] 05. Novacode - Kickback [Pure Progressive] 06. Enlusion — Prague Afterglow [JOOF] It's Not The Kind Of Thing We Usually Play... But We Like It Anyway: 07. The Dare - Tambourine (Freakquencies Vol. 1 EP) [The Dare is a Business] 08. Shedding Feathers - December Leaves (Standard Form Christmas Remix) [Pure Trance] 09. Peter Hulsmans - Principle [Pure Trance] 10. STÜM, X & Ivy - We Left The Lights On [STÜM, X & Ivy] 11. I, Jordan - Worth It [Ninja Tune] 12. Julie Desire - What You Gonna Do [Agrio Tracks] Big Tune: 13. Lostly - Alone [Lostly Music] 14. Chris Johnson & Luke Terry present Taisaku - Fuyu [Pure Trance] 15. Cold Blue - Storm (from the album 'Mountain') [Black Hole] 16. Craig Connelly - New York Sunday (Sequence Six Remix) [Pure Trance NEON] 17. Ferry Corsten - Eternity (Genix Reprint) [Black Hole] 18. solarstone & susie ledge - star (solarstone & leon bolier starbust mix) [Black Hole] Oh Yeah: 19. Metta & Glyde - Focus [Dreamstate Records] Chillout Moment: 20. ID

This talk explores how to apply the Golden Rule in the context of mindfulness practice.   You'll learn how this timeless guidance ties into the practice of compassion (Karuna), interconnectedness (Dependent Origination), loving kindness (Metta) and non-harming (Ahimsa).

For episode 275, we are continuing a new series on the Metta Hour, centered on kids, in honor of Sharon's first children's book, Kind Karl, out now! Co-authored by Jason Gruhl, this illustrated picture book is for 4-8 year-olds and is a new children's adaptation of Sharon's beloved book Lovingkindness. To learn more about Sharon's children's book, Kind Karl, and pre-order a copy with a special pre-order gift, you can visit Sharon's website, right here.For this podcast series, Sharon speaks with educators, caregivers, and researchers about the ways meditation, mindfulness, and lovingkindness can impact children of all ages and the family systems that support them. For the fourth episode of the series, Sharon speaks with Ali Smith, Andres Gonzales and Atman Smith of the Holistic Life Foundation.Andy, Ali, and Atman co-founded the Holistic Life Foundation in 2001, a non-profit organization bringing yoga, meditation, and breath-work to thousands of at-risk kids in Baltimore and beyond. Their work has received wide national attention due to their remarkable results in public schools where suspension rates plummet and graduation rates skyrocket. Outside of the Holistic Life Foundation, Ali, Atman, and Andy also teach to diverse populations worldwide, including drug treatment centers, mental crisis facilities, homeless shelters, and Yoga, Wellness, and Mindfulness Festivals. Their first book, “Let Your Light Shine” was published in 2022 by Penguin Random House.In this conversation, Sharon, Atman, Andres and Ali speak about:• The creation of the Holistic Life Foundation• Experiencing meditation early in life• Working in underserved communities• Teaching with trauma awareness• HLF Retreats and certification programs • The importance of sharing love • Benefits of mindfulness for kids• Partnering with schools and education systems • Modifying practice for younger minds• How to champion love• Encouraging authentic, in-person interaction• Giving from a place of overflow• Caring for ourselves to better care for othersThe episode closes with a guided practice. You can learn more about the Holistic Life Foundation's work on their website, right here. And get a copy of the book“Let Your Light Shine” right here.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Sharon joins Raghu and Duncan on the Mindrolling Podcast to discuss the loving-kindness lessons in her first children's book, Kind Karl. Together, they explore how mindful kids grow into mindful adults and why these teachings matter.Kind Karl will be released on 12/9! Co-authored by Jason Gruhl, this illustrated picture book is for 4-8 year-olds and is a new children's adaptation of Sharon's beloved book Lovingkindness. To learn more about Sharon's forthcoming children's book, Kind Karl, and pre-order a copy with a special pre-order gift, you can visit Sharon's website, right here. This time on Mindrolling, Duncan, Sharon, and Raghu connect over:Sharon's upcoming children's book on mindfulness and loving-kindness, Kind KarlUnderstanding how habits like greed and fear begin in early childhoodHow issues like greed have roots in early childhoodLearning from Karl the Crocodile: navigating big feelings, mistakes, and emotional complexityKarl the Crocodile as an inspiration for parents dealing with guilt and stressMaking mindfulness accessible and engaging for children of all agesPutting our thoughts onto clouds and allowing them to float awayLoving-kindness meditations for kids: getting the whole family into mindfulness practiceAbout Sharon Salzberg:Sharon Salzberg is a meditation pioneer, world-renowned teacher, and New York Times bestselling author. She is one of the first to bring mindfulness and lovingkindness meditation to mainstream American culture over 45 years ago, inspiring generations of meditation teachers and wellness influencers. Sharon is co-founder of The Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, and the author of twelve books, including the New York Times bestseller, Real Happiness, now in its second edition, and her seminal work, Lovingkindness. Her podcast, The Metta Hour, has amassed five million downloads and features interviews with thought leaders from the mindfulness movement and beyond. Learn more about Sharon and her books at www.sharonsalzberg.com and check out Insight Meditation Society.“It's not a small thing to have even a little act of kindness because of what's happening to us inside. That's something Karl the Crocodile gets into. He really decides to change when he makes that experiment, which can be kind of radical: help them instead of hurt them, help yourself, and forgive yourself. How does it feel inside when we choose that?” –Sharon SalzbergAbout Duncan Trussell:Duncan Trussell is a stand-up comedian, podcaster, and actor. His popular podcast, The Duncan Trussell Family Hour, has been downloaded over 25 million times and is known for its blend of humor, fringe ideas, eclectic guests, and great interviews. The DTFH is the foundation for Duncan's Netflix animated series, The Midnight Gospel, which he co-created with Pendleton Ward in 2020. To learn more about Duncan's work, visit his website at duncantrussell.com."It starts right at the beginning, they want each other's toys. This is built into us. Whenever you look out into the world at the stuff going on and the big picture, it really isn't that different from siblings, except the problem is that these are adults and there isn't anyone to tell them, okay, you're getting a time out." –Duncan TrussellSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Mikey joins Dave Smith in collaboration with Flowering Lotus Meditation to discuss the importance of metta in mindfulness practice. Mikey and Dave will be teaching a retreat together December 28, 2025- Friday, January 2, 2026 in Bay St. Louis, MS.Learn more and sign up here: https://www.floweringlotusmeditation.org  Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non-profit Buddhist community based in Nashville, TN. https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.orgDONATE: If you feel moved to support WHMC financially please visit:https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.org/donateFollow Us on Socials!Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WildHeartNashville/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildheartnashville/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wildheartmeditation

00. Episode 315 (Intro) - Trance All Over The World 01. Chapter XJ - Eternal [MONSTER NEOS] 02. Ben Gold - Nostalgia [ARMADA CAPTIVATING] 03. Alex M.O.R.P.H. & Diago - Age of Infinity [MORPHLAND] 04. Nik Andre - Loneliness [DIGITAL SOCIETY RECORDINGS] 05. Christopher Corrigan - Arcadian [SUANDA TRUE] 06. Roger Shah & Thomas Benscher - Morning Dew (Uplifting Mix) [MAGIC ISLAND ELEVATE] 07. Kenan Teke - Lamente [NOCTURNAL KNIGHTS MUSIC] 08. Alan Morris & Elixus - Rays Of Light [FSOE] 09. Allen Watts & SILVELA - Echoes [WHO'S AFRAID OF 138?!] 10. Hans Zimmer - Interstellar (RYDEX Bootleg) 11. A.R.D.I. - End Of Silence [INTERPLAY RECORDS] 12. Philippe El Sisi & Omar Sherif - Pendulum [FSOE] 13. Eximinds & Alexander Komarov - Way Home [INTERPLAY RECORDS] 14. Adam Taylor - Haziness [DIGITAL SOCIETY RECORDINGS (ENHANCED)] 15. Dj T.H. - The Sunset Symphony [GROTESQUE MUSIC] 16. Ralphie B & Frank Waanders - Fata Morgana [ZYX TRANCE] 17. Emanuele Congeddu - Stellar 111 [NOCTURNAL KNIGHTS MUSIC] 18. Starpicker - Purified (Giuseppe Ottaviani Retouch) [GO MUSIC] 19. Ramin Arab - Endless [ALWAYS ALIVE RECORDINGS] 20. Metta & Glyde - 11:11 [FSOE] 21. Yoshi & Razner - The Essence [NOCTURNAL KNIGHTS MUSIC] 22. KWONE - Passacaglia [INTERPLAY GLOBAL] 23. Ahmed Romel - Never Enough [FSOE] 24. Paul Skelton - Farewell For Now [KINECTED RECORDINGS] 25. Stuart Davidson - I Won't Forget You [BUTTERFLY MUSIC]

In this week's Mindful Mondays, Ashley Bentley begins December with one of the most transformative practices in meditation - Loving-Kindness, or Metta - a heart-centred practice that played a pivotal role in her own healing during one of the most difficult winters of her life.In this deeply reflective episode, Ashley shares how she first encountered loving-kindness meditation during a period marked by isolation, burnout, chronic illness, and profound emotional fatigue. She explores why this ancient practice is uniquely powerful for the neurodivergent nervous system - how cultivating genuine feelings of warmth, compassion, and connection can shift us from protection into regulation, soften old emotional narratives, and create real physiological change.Listeners will learn about the heart-based science behind metta, how this practice supports emotional resilience and nervous system safety, and why it so often brings unexpected breakthroughs and healing tears.This episode also includes a short, grounding Loving-Kindness meditation, guided with trauma-sensitive care and designed to meet each listener exactly where they are.If December feels heavy, lonely, or overwhelming, this practice offers a gentle place to rest.And later this month, Ashley will revisit metta in a very special Self-Love episode—closing the year with compassion, softness, and deep inner nourishment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If Buddhism focuses on the here and now, why does Metta Meditation extend to “invisible beings,” and what are they? In this podcast, Bhante Sathi illustrated that Metta meditation helps us open our hearts to all beings—those we see and those we don't—by recognizing that everyone wants to be happy. It teaches us to let go of attachment to physical forms and to respond to others with compassion and understanding. By practicing this, we can stay connected, forgive, and love even when people, pets, and all beings pass away, seeing the person beyond their body.

In this energizing conversation, Meng — Google's former “Jolly Good Fellow” and co-founder of buddhism.net — breaks down how Buddhist practice can boost happiness, success, and emotional resilience. From the “minimum effective dose” of meditation to the surprising technique of “suffer later,” Meng shares practical tools anyone can use to feel calmer, think clearer, and live wiser — without needing hours of practice a day.✨ Key Takeaways:

Explore kindness on a deeper level, beyond simply “being nice.” In this episode Kelly breaks down what kindness truly is, what it isn't, and why it's rooted in connection rather than approval, people-pleasing or self-sacrifice. She looks at kindness through psychology, evolution, and neuroscience, revealing how both giving and receiving kindness feels good and impacts you on a mental, emotional and physical level. Then she walks you through why Metta meditation is so good and helping you become a kinder person. More Mindful in Minutes ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join the free 5-day Nervous system reset to overcome overwhelm⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Books ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Order Meditation For The Modern Family⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠You Are Not Your Thoughts: An 8-Week Anxiety Guided Meditation Journal⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ **⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Download 4 sample days from You Are Not Your Thoughts Here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠** Join MIM on Patreon here ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Order Meditation For The Modern Family⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Let's Connect Email Kelly your questions at info@yogaforyouonline.com Follow Kelly on instagram @yogaforyouonline Please rate, subscribe and review (it helps more than you know!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For episode 274, we are continuing a new series on the Metta Hour, centered on kids, in honor of Sharon's first children's book, Kind Karl, coming out on December 9th!Co-authored by Jason Gruhl, this illustrated picture book is for 4-8 year-olds and is a new children's adaptation of Sharon's beloved book Lovingkindness. To learn more about Sharon's forthcoming children's book, Kind Karl, and pre-order a copy with a special pre-order gift, you can visit Sharon's website, right here.For this podcast series, Sharon speaks with educators, caregivers, and researchers about the ways meditation, mindfulness, and lovingkindness can impact children of all ages and the family systems that support them. For the third episode of the series, Sharon speaks with Meena Srinivasan.Meena Srinivasan is an educational leader, speaker, author, and visionary edupreneur. With over two decades of dedicated service, she has consistently championing the fusion of Mindfulness and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL). In 2022, she was featured as one of Mindful Magazine's "Ten Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement," while also gaining recognition in Educational Leadership Magazine for her insights into Mindful Leadership and Wellbeing. Her recent TEDx Talk on Tenderness is one of the most popular talks of 2024 with more than 2 million views. A dedicated practitioner for more than 25 years, Meena is a newly ordained lay Dharma teacher in the Plum Village tradition, in the lineage of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, who calls her a “precious ambassador of mindfulness.”In this conversation, Meena and Sharon speak about:Aligning inner life with outer workMeena's early spiritual foundation in Hindu cultureSocial and Emotional Learning (SEL)SEL practices for different ages & environmentsSmell the Flower and Blow Out the Candle meditationsSupporting kids in crisisThích Nhất Hạnh's School of InterbeingThe importance of parents'' and educators' well-beingCommunity practice as a necessity Transformative Educational Leadership Meena's research on tenderness with Yale Tenderness versus compassion, vulnerability & empathyThe Three Breath Hug MeditationThe Non-Toothache MeditationThe episode closes with Meena leading guided practice. You can learn more about Meena's work on her website, right here.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A reflection on how boundless Metta naturally becomes gratitude and generosity. Grounded in early teachings, elemental presence, embodied practice, and the simple movement of a heart learning to give freely.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A reflection on how boundless Metta naturally becomes gratitude and generosity. Grounded in early teachings, elemental presence, embodied practice, and the simple movement of a heart learning to give freely.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A reflection on how boundless Metta naturally becomes gratitude and generosity. Grounded in early teachings, elemental presence, embodied practice, and the simple movement of a heart learning to give freely.

Send us a textWhat if most of the economy can be automated without anything we'd call real general intelligence? That provocative idea launches a candid tour with Ben Goertzel through the difference between LLM “breadth” and the kind of generalization that marks true AGI. We unpack why today's models are powerful yet limited, how they'll reshape work in the near term, and what ingredients are missing for systems that reason, invent, and move beyond the data that formed them.We dig into a practical path forward: blending deep neural networks with logic engines, evolutionary learning, and a massive knowledge graph so each part amplifies the others. Ben shares how the Hyperon framework and the ASI chain bring AI on-chain, not just coordinated by it. That means a new AGI language, MeTTa, serving as a smart contract language, enabling formal verification, rich composability, and an integrated reputation layer. Together, these tools aim to embed trust into the stack while opening the door to decentralized AI networks that resist capture by any single company or state.Culture, narrative, and emotion matter just as much as code. A robot-led band nearly got booed off stage until the performance was reframed as exploration, not replacement—proof that context shapes how people accept new tools. We follow that thread into creativity, where AI can mix stems, spark ideas, and widen access for musicians, even as some roles compress. The larger question becomes not whether AI can do the job, but what humans will choose to do for meaning, connection, and joy. Along the way, we weigh openness versus control through a proactionary lens and point you to resources to explore decentralized, trustworthy AI.If this conversation challenged your assumptions or sparked new ones, follow the show, share it with a friend, and leave a quick review to help others find it. Your thoughts shape where we go next—what part of decentralized AGI are you most curious about?This episode was recorded at Web Summit in Lisbon on November 13, 2025. Read the blog article and show notes here: https://webdrie.net/creating-benevolent-decentralized-agi-at-singularitynet/..........................................................................

Welcome to episode 20 of Lost in Trancelation!    This month I have gone for proper trance feels with some incredible progressive, uplifting & vocal tracks.  Sit back, turn the volume up, close your eyes, find your happy place and get ready to be taken on an emotional rollercoaster with me this month.    Have a good one, stay safe and look out for each other.    Tracklist:  1.  BiXX - The Voice Of Reason (Album Mix) 2.  Dan Stone x Katey Brooks - Feels Like Home (Extended Mix) 3.  Ginchy & Susie Ledge - Feel It (Extended Mix) 4.  Michael Milov - Now or Never Again (Extended Mix) 5.  Alex M.O.R.P.H. - Hold Me (Extended Mix) 6.  John O'Callaghan - Lost in Sound (Extended Mix) 7.  Kevin Ft. Sheryl Deane & Tom Holmes - We'll Never Say Goodbye (Roman Messer Remix) 8.  Tyler Jack - Promise (Extended Mix) 9.  Bigtopo - Ways To Love (Extended Mix) 10. Cenk Basaran - Keeps Me High (Extended Mix) 11. Klubbingman, Andy Jay Powell - In Your Eyes (Extended Mix) 12. Metta & Glyde - The Light Within (Original Mix) 13. Ilan Bluestone & Giuseppe De Luca - This Town (Extended Club Mix)  

This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2025.11.16 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* A machine generated transcript of this talk is available. It has not been edited by a human, so errors will exist. Download Transcript: https://www.audiodharma.org/transcripts/24210/download ******* For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org ******* If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/. ******* This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License

This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2025.11.16 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* A machine generated transcript of this talk is available. It has not been edited by a human, so errors will exist. Download Transcript: https://www.audiodharma.org/transcripts/24210/download ******* For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org ******* If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/. ******* This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License

10 Minute Guided Meditation:  Self-LoveWelcome to The Calming Anxiety Podcast with your host, Martin.This 10-minute guided meditation is your essential daily self-love practice designed to instantly release self-judgment and cultivate deep self-compassion. Whether you are a beginner or seeking a quick mental reset, this loving-kindness meditation (Metta) will help you find inner peace and grounding in the present moment.In this powerful self-compassion session, you will learn to:Practice Heart-Centered Breathing to access your inner strength and resilience.Release Anxiety and Stress by letting your whole body soften and grounding your awareness.Harness Positive Self-Talk using the four affirmations of self-kindness: "May I be happy," "May I be safe," "May I be healthy," and "May I live with ease".Boost Self-Worth and Confidence by generating a feeling of warmth and tenderness within your heart space.Find a comfortable space and take this time to nurture the most important person in your life: You. Carry this quality of self-compassion with you as you move into the rest of your day.

Unlike Jesus, the Buddha didn't explicitly instruct us to "love our enemies." However, he did instruct us to extend goodwill, or Metta, to all beings unconditionally – including, of course, our enemies. In this time of growing divisiveness, what does it really mean to follow this teaching? Most people will admit that nurturing resentment and hatred is probably a bad idea, but on the other hand it feels completely unacceptable to capitulate to – surrender to or stop resisting – those who we perceive as causing harm. Fortunately, there are many benefits to loving our enemies, and doing so does not mean capitulating to them.

Welcome to Episode 085 of Subatomic Sessions.   We are back to the normal format this month of 24 of the best tracks over the past 2 months given last months massive episode.   The Big 100 is slowly edging closer.   1. Philippe El Sisi and Ana Criado and Omar Sherif - Love Is Fragile (Extended Mix) 2. Resolve - Calan Sky (Extended Mix) 3. Drival & Christina Novelli - Save My Life (Steve Allen Extended Remix) 4. Casey Allen - Lost In Linda's Love (Extended Mix) 5. Fantazm & Tycoos & Nytigen - Exaltation (Extended Mix) 6. Dermot Kirby - Magnetic  (Extended Mix) 7. Claus Backslash - Right Direction (Extended Mix) 8. Talla 2xlc X DJ T.H. X Diandra Faye X Smyn-T - Footprints (Extended Mix) 9. Siege - Set Me Free (Extended Mix) 10. Adip Kiyoi & Roxanne Emery - Embers (Christopher Corrigan Extended Remix) 11. Rak Coon - Realm Of Illusion (Extended Mix) 12. H.M.B.L. - Amen  (Extended Mix) 13. LightDJ - Elysian Skies (Extended Mix) 14. Laucco - Fast Radio Burst  (Extended Version) 15. Robinito - Tidefall  (Extended Mix) 16. Pierre Pienaar & Dirkie Coetzee - The Art Of Falling In Love (Extended Mix) 17. Vapour Trail - Septimius (Original Mix) 18. REX.W - Chasing Fire (Extended Mix) 19. Metta and Glyde - The Same Silence (Extended Mix) 20. Foxxy Jay - Around The World (Extended Mix) 21. Spaceline & U-Mount - Don't Lose Yourself (Extended Mix) 22. Xlm & Shoma - Ray Of Hope (Extended Mix) 23. Robinito - Celestara (Extended Mix) 24. Rene Ablaze and Steve Dekay - Deep Inside (Extended Mix)

Dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Bataclan Massacre, 13th November 2015

For episode 273, we are continuing a new series on the Metta Hour, centered on kids, in honor of Sharon's first children's book, Kind Karl, coming out on December 9th!Co-authored by Jason Gruhl, this illustrated picture book is for 4-8 year-olds and is a new children's adaptation of Sharon's beloved book Lovingkindness. For this podcast series, Sharon speaks with educators, caregivers, and researchers about the ways meditation, mindfulness, and lovingkindness can impact children of all ages and the family systems that support them. For the second episode of the series, Sharon speaks with Dr. Christopher Willard.Chris is a clinical psychologist at Harvard Medical School and author of numerous publications for children and adults. An internationally sought-after speaker and mindfulness educator, his books include Growing Up Mindful, Raising Resilience, and Alphabreaths.In this conversation, Sharon and Chris speak about:The benefits of mindfulness in family systemsChris's personal journey with mindfulnessHow mindfulness can be accessible for kids Emotional growth and connection at any age Simple at-home practices Modeling calm compassion How kids can emotionally regulate The benefits of meditation in schools Challenges of technology in family lifeHow self-compassion prevents burnoutNurturing empathy, presence and resilience The goal of presence, not perfectionThe episode closes with Chris leading guided practice. You can learn more about Chris's work on his website, right here.To learn more about Sharon's forthcoming children's book, Kind Karl, and pre-order a copy with a special pre-order gift, you can visit Sharon's website, right here.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2025.11.09 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* A machine generated transcript of this talk is available. It has not been edited by a human, so errors will exist. Download Transcript: https://www.audiodharma.org/transcripts/24195/download ******* For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org ******* If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/. ******* This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License

This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2025.11.09 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* A machine generated transcript of this talk is available. It has not been edited by a human, so errors will exist. Download Transcript: https://www.audiodharma.org/transcripts/24195/download ******* For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org ******* If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/. ******* This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License

From a downloaded document from one of my online dharma dialogs — dated June 8, 2016, but otherwise unidentified — we find the following definitions of the Four Immeasurables of Buddhism: Metta (loving kindness) Karuna (compassion)Mudita (sympathetic joy or empathy) Upekkha (equanimity) I have always felt that the immeasurables of Zen practice are more important than those aspects subject to measurement. For example, it is more important in doing meditation, zazen, to never give up, as MatsuokaRoshi would often encourage us, than how long we sit when we do, how often, how frequently, how regularly, etc. More important than the quantitative dimension is the qualitative.Folks bring this up in dokusan frequently, saying they know they need to “sit more.” I ask them when do they think they can do that. You cannot sit more in the past — it's too late. You cannot sit more in the future, because it is not yet here, though you can plan to do so — and possibly set yourself up fordiscouragement by failing to live up to your own expectations — been there, done that. The only time you can do more zazen is when you are doing it. You can do zazen more by refraining from doing anything else while you are on the cushion. Such as daydreaming, worrying, planning, ruminating, regretting, and so on. Turn up the intensity knob. The list is followed by an extension of the definitions: The ease of equanimity, the full-heartedness of love, the tenderness of compassion, the radiance of joy. There follows a brief “prayer,” a term we do not often see in Buddhist teachings, a “short version” attributed to H.H. the Dali Lama:The Four immeasurables are found in one brief and beautiful prayer: May all sentient beings have happiness and its causes,May all sentient beings be free of suffering and its causes, May all sentient beings notbe separated from sorrowless bliss, May all sentient beings abide in equanimity, free of bias,attachment and anger.This sounds very similar to the familiar Metta Sutta, or Loving Kindness Sutra, from the Soto Zen liturgychanted often in Zen temples, though finding our “bliss” is not a term I would use as a goal or objective of Zen practice. While human beings are included in the panoply of sentient beings that we pray may be happy, it is also acknowledged that human beings can be a significant part of the problem, the cause of unhappiness and sorrow in their fellow sentient beings. Needless to say, we “pray” in the sense of earnestness — not to a god, to Buddha, nor to a specific bodhisattva. Our basic prayer is that we wake up, as soon as possible.It should be equally needless to point out that the prayer, or wish, for all beings to be happy does not imply a rose-colored, magical-thinking belief that somehow just because we pray for it, it shall come to pass that all beings will suddenly become happy, via some “spooky action at a distance” — thank you, Zen Master Einstein.We “transfer merit” at the end of our service because we don't want to suggest that we actually believe we personally accumulate any real merit owing to our devotional activities. Whatever merit there maybe, it must already finitely exist, and can be neither increased or decreased by what we do.Likewise, the practical worldview of Buddhism and Zen dictates that if and when all beings actually do become happy, it will be happy with the causes and conditions of existence just as they are, or in spite ofthem: the unsatisfactory nature of life, being subject to aging, sickness and death, etc ad infinitum. Zen isnothing if not realistic.“Things as it is” is an expression David Chadwick attributes to Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in his charming book, “Crooked Cucumber,” as his condensed expression of one of the central truths of Zen. It does notmean “things as they are.” If it did, there would be no reason to engage in all the necessary discipline andwork of Zen, if it were only to result in things staying the way they are. That is, if our own perception and conception of our own reality did not undergo some kind of meaningful change as a result of our efforts, what would be the point of practicing? Which begs another central question, What kind of change is that?The kind of change that can come about through the practice and study of Zen, particularly itsmeditation, is pointed to in the Heart Sutra, chanted ubiquitously in Zen centers all over the world. The linethat declares, “Given Emptiness, there is no suffering, no end of suffering.” This Emptiness is capitalized tostress the unique meaning of the Sanskrit shunyatta. It is not voidness of existence, or devoid of meaning, but the dynamic nature of change that underlies all existence, the operative meaning of dukkha, usually translated as “suffering.” The suffering that can change through our coming to this insight that Buddha experienced and coached others to find, is of the unnecessary sort — that needless suffering that we heedlessly inflict upon ourselves and others. The suffering that does not — indeed cannot — change is that of the natural type, e.g. sickness, aging and death.Metta, nonetheless, is a worthy and worthwhile aspiration to a frame of mind that, while embracing the universal givens — impermanence, imperfection and insubstantiality — continues to encourage a hopeful mindset, and an engagement in compassionate action for all, toward that ideal of all beings being as happy as is practicable, under the circumstances.However, kindness — and likewise the other three immeasurables — is not at all separable from the immediate circumstances of life. Suffering fools gladly, or humoring others in their delusions or neuroses, is not an act of kindness, but of uncaring, a kind of cop-out. Treating others in ways that may not be helpful, butthat allow one to sustain a false sense that one is being kind, is not truly kind.In Zen, we recognize that the kindest thing to do, with and for others, is sharing the dharma assets, including those aspects that are most adaptable by others, such as the unsurpassably simple method of Zen meditation. But we also recognize that, even then, the effect of Zen training upon their lives is entirely up to them. You can lead a horse to water, et cetera. It requires a sense of modesty and humility to accept that we can actually do very little to help anyone else. And that what we suppose to be the most important kind of help they need may not be so. The most we can do is to expose them to the practice and teachings of Zen — sanzen and zazen — in the midst of the universal, ongoing, relentless pandemic of ignorance. Whether the inoculation against this virus takes, or not, depends upon them.

This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2025.10.31 at the Insight Retreat Center in Santa Cruz, CA. ******* Online Hybrid via Zoom Insight Retreat with Gil Fronsda &, Andrea Castillo; Online Practice Discussions with Mei Elliott (2025-10-26 00:00:00 -0700) ******* A machine generated transcript of this talk is available. It has not been edited by a human, so errors will exist. Download Transcript: https://www.audiodharma.org/transcripts/24173/download ******* For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org ******* If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/. ******* This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Understanding the 11 benefits of practicing Metta along with mindfulness of the loveability of the difficult person and all beings can lead to happiness and freedom of the mind from annoyance.

For episode 272, we are launching a new series on the Metta Hour, centered on kids, in honor of Sharon's first children's book, Kind Karl, coming out on December 9th! Co-authored by Jason Gruhl, this illustrated picture book is for 4-8 year-olds and is a new children's adaptation of Sharon's beloved book Lovingkindness. To learn more about Sharon's forthcoming children's book, Kind Karl, and pre-order a copy with a special pre-order gift, you can visit Sharon's website, right here.For this podcast series, Sharon speaks with educators, caregivers, and researchers about the ways meditation, mindfulness, and lovingkindness can impact children of all ages and the family systems that support them. For the first episode of the series, Sharon speaks with Susan Kaiser Greenland. Susan is a mindfulness educator and bestselling author, specializing in distilling global wisdom traditions and scientific research into straightforward everyday practices. In the early 2000s, she helped pioneer the introduction of secular mindfulness into classrooms through her Inner Kids model. After decades of working with children and adults and writing two widely translated books, Susan's latest book, Real-World Enlightenment, was published in 2024 by Shambhala.In this conversation, Susan and Sharon speak about:Susan's journey with meditationMeditation's effect on Susan's sonInspiration for writing The Mindful ChildVolunteering in schoolsCreating the Inner Kids programThe importance of storytellingThe playful approach for young agesThe positive effects of mindfulness in schoolsThe “Pink Bubble” compassion exerciseMindfulness for family dynamicsSusan's UCLA research findingsSusan's most recent book, Real World EnlightenmentThe episode closes with Susan leading guided practice. You can learn more about Susan's work on her website, right here.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2025.10.20 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org ******* If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/. ******* This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License

This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2025.10.15 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org ******* If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/. ******* This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License