Podcasts about sitting meditation

This meditation includes the poem Victor, from the beautiful book, The First Free Women: Original Poems Inspired by the Early Buddhist Nuns, by Matty Weingast: Victor:   When everyone else was meditating,  I'd be outside circling in the hall.   Finally I went to confess.  I'm hopeless, I said.    The elder nun smiled.    Just keep going, she said.  Nothing stays in orbit forever.    If this circling is all you have,  why not make this circling your home?    I did as she told me,  and went on circling in the hall.   If you find yourself partly in  and partly out –  if you find yourself drawn to this Path  and also drawing away –  I can assure you,  you're in good company.    Just keep going.    Sometimes the most direct path isn't a     straight line.

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“Don't meditate to fix yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, do it as an act of love, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way there is no longer any need for the subtle aggression of self-improvement, for the endless guilt of not doing enough. It offers the possibility of an end to the ceaseless round of trying so hard that wraps so many people's lives in a knot. Instead there is now meditation as an act of love. How endlessly delightful and encouraging.”  Bob Sharples, from Meditation: Calming the Mind

Claude AnShin Thomas - Zen Buddhist monk, combat veteran, and author - responds to questions from students in an inspiring manner based on his Zen practice and life experiences. He reminds the listener how to stay awake to life and understand more deeply the traps of a deluded mind.   This episode was recorded during a weekly online meeting of questions & responses. For more information: https://zaltho.org/ If you want to ask Claude AnShin Thomas a question: info@zaltho.org. For more information: https://zaltho.org/ Book recommendations: -       Bringing Meditation to Life - 108 Teachings on the Path of Zen Practice (Oakwood Publishing 2021) -       AT HELL'S GATE - A Soldier's Journey from War to Peace (Shambhala Publications 2003) -       On the Edges of Sleep: Poems of War and Memory (Oakwood Publishing 2024) If you are interested in a specific question, this is the list of questions that Claude AnShin responded to and the time stamps for those questions so that you can go directly to the topic that is of most interest to you. Questions and Time Stamps:1:11 Is seeking pleasure a selfish desire? 1:24  Do you think that it is important to experience times when nothing seems to give stability or security?   2:22 Can certain actions be characterized as showing both selfish and unselfish desire?   3:06 I am interested to know with sitting meditation if it is at all important what we wear?   4:02 How do you prepare for a public talk?   5:19 What drew you to the Buddhist tradition you are practicing in in contrast to another Buddhist tradition?   6:53 If there is no soul, no separate self, what do you believe which part that is being reborn?   8:29 What if I like to divert from the recommended 5-minute-sitting morning and evening to sit sometimes longer or also sit at different times of the day?   9:38 Sitting meditation helps me to get me out of hamster-wheel-thinking. Is it okay to practice it like that?   10:14 How has the desire for extinction manifested in your life?   10:58 In the two monasteries where you trained, were the instructions on how to breathe during meditation practice identical or different?    11:27 What was the reason at the first time you were asked to getting ordained to say no and the second time to say yes?

This is a meditation in using noting practice, skillfully to acknowledge validate and return home again as needed.

This practice explores how noting helps us get more clear as to what's really here. What one takes in by contemplation, one pours out in love. –Meister Eckhart   The Way It Is, Lynn Ungar One morning you might wake up to realize that the knot in your stomach had loosened itself and slipped away, and that the pit of unfulfilled longing in your heart had gradually, and without your really noticing, been filled in—patched like a pothole, not quite the same as it was, but good enough. And in that moment it might occur to you that your life, though not the way you planned it, and maybe not even entirely the way you wanted it, is nonetheless— persistently, abundantly, miraculously— exactly the way it is.

How we meet the moment of waking back up, makes all the difference in our practice. This city meditation is an opportunity to deeply explore that moment of re-awakening.

This meditation draws from Tara Brach, teaching on four remembrances for practice: Pausing, saying yes to life, turning towards love, resting in awareness. What It Is It is nonsense says reason It is what it is says love It is calamity says calculation It is nothing but pain says fear It is hopeless says insight It is what it is says love It is ludicrous says pride It is foolish says caution It is impossible says experience It is what it is says love Erich Fried

in this practice, we explore opening to the wholeness of what's here, the gratitude and release as well as the contracted and reactionary.

This meditation again draws from the Somatics work of Amanda Blake and Embright Organization, and is offers a strong way to use the body as a rooting anchor of support.  

Opening up to the shared physical nature of our being is an avenue for contemplative experience of safety, connection, and respect.

How do we learn to meet ourselves, just as we are, in a way that provides an internal sense of safety?   Erich Fried, translated by: ANNA KALLIO  It is nonsense says reason It is what it is says love It is calamity says calculation It is nothing but pain says fear It is hopeless says insight It is what it is says love It is ludicrous says pride It is foolish says caution It is impossible says experience It is what it is says love

This meditation draws heavily from Amanda Blake of Embright Organization and the field of somatics. Much as we would know we can rely on the support of a strong mature tree, this mediation uses the imagery of learning how to lean back and rest upon the tree of our spine.

Again, drawing from the field of Somatics' understanding that an inner sense of safety, connection and respect are foundational for our well-being, we use the body as a focus in cultivating these qualities within ourselves.

This meditation considers how opening in the direction of safety, connection and respect is useful in our formal practice.

Your hand opens and closes, and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings. -Rumi

From the Tao Te Ching, translated by Ursula LeGuin: ...Hard and easy complete each other long and short shape each other high and low depend on each other note invoice make the music together before and after follow each other... The things of this world exist, they are; you can't refuse them.

This practice is about greeting what is here, not trying to force ourselves into what we think should be here instead. What does that look like for you?

Bringing curiosity to whatever happens: Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace. -Frederick Buechner

This is an opportunity to practice being receptive to your own being. Koshin Paley Ellison:  Being receptive is essentially being open to learning from everything. Some people hear this and are frightened. Others hear it and are excited … But true receptivity is a lot harder than it seems. And yet, if you can stay open to the lessons that are the most difficult to grasp, you can learn to swim, not drown, in the ocean of life.  

In this sit, we open to exploring all of what's here in this moment, not just the often very small story of “who we are vs who should be…"

We can learn to use a practice of skillful pendulation in our sitting practice, and in the whole our life as a means of grounding with challenge. This is a practice of flowing with a natural movement of coming and going, contraction and release, breathing in and breathing out, tides moving in and out, day moving to night and back to day, movement of seasons, and the up and down of bird wings. Rumi, translator-Coleman Banks The Essential Rumi: Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as bird wings.

(Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand)

Revisiting the poem, “What It Is“ is an opportunity to explore even deeper opening into what is here with compassion and wisdom.

What It Is (English translation of Was es ist) Written by: Erich Fried. Translated by: Anna Kallio It is nonsense says reason It is what it is says love It is calamity says calculation It is nothing but pain says fear It is hopeless says insight It is what it is says love It is ludicrous says pride It is foolish says caution It is impossible says experience It is what it is says love.

A meditation to help remind us that home is always already here and available in each moment now. Tasting Mindfulness, Jon Kabat-Zinn Have you ever had the experience of stopping so completely, of being in your body so completely, of being in your life so completely, that what you knew and what you didn't know that what had been and what was yet to come, and the way things are right now no longer held even the slightest hint of anxiety or discord? It would be a moment of complete presence, beyond striving, beyond mere acceptance, beyond the desire to escape or fix anything or plunge ahead, a moment of pure being, no longer in time, a moment of pure seeing, pure feeling, a moment in which life simply is, and that “is-ness” grabs you by all your senses, all your memories, by your very genes, by your loves, and  welcomes you home.

The word yoga has a definition of “to yoke“. In this sitting meditation, we are practicing a kind of yoga, or yoking, of body, mind and heart.

Gil Fronsdal talks about the importance of posture in our meditation practice and offers a bevy of suggestions for staying comfortable and pain-free both on the floor and in a chair.This dharma talk was originally published on Dharma Seed.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowIn this episode, Gil explores:How posture can really help anchor us to the present momentBeing intentional with our posture in meditation versus giving into posture driven by emotions that arise during meditationWhy there is no perfect posture for meditation, only the posture that works best at this moment in timeTips and tricks for various meditation postures, from sitting on the floor to using a chair“And so the dharma posture is a posture that we can hold our sadness in, hold our grief, despair, whatever it might be, but without giving into it, collapsing into it. So it's not denying it, but it's also not getting entangled with it.” – Gil FronsdalSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Meditation in a sitting position is often the first kind many practitioners experience, yet, Buddhism is home to a variety of techniques and methods. As Rev. WonGong explores the world of meditation in her instructive dharma talk, she also guides us to its heart and purpose. https://www.wonbuddhismnc.org/donations

Find a quiet place or put on headphones and listen to the guided meditation. This is a short introduction to the sitting meditation practice that we'll do throughout the course. Don't worry about getting it right. It's called "a practice" for a reason!

(Vimutti Buddhist Monestary) Sitting starts at 19:40

Saira has created these mindfulness practices for you to try.You're best starting with the shorter ones. And just bring them in a few times a week.It can be hard breaking the patterns of our lives to begin spending time doing these exercises, but it is worth the trouble.Your mind is going to wander during these practices. Don't worry, it's what minds do and the work with mindfulness is when you notice your mind is drifting and bring it back to the present and the practice.Some discomfort and difficulty is expected because it is work. You are changing your neurological pathways and working on your attentional system, so bear that in mind when you're trying to decide if this is something that's going work for you.These practices from Saira are all trauma sensitive. We hope this podcast has been helpful in your journey to understanding what has happened to you and provided some new insights and perhaps, hopefully even helped you feel less alone. Any feedback, helpful suggestions or ideas on what you would like to hear more about are very welcome. Please get in touch on email saira@mendality.com or via the website mendality.comCopyright 2023 Saira Khan

This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2022.12.10 at the Insight Retreat Center in Santa Cruz, CA. ******* Dec 10, 2022 Daylong Online Retreat with Gil Fronsdal (2022-12-10 00:00:00 -0800) ******* 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 2022.12.10 at the Insight Retreat Center in Santa Cruz, CA. ******* Dec 10, 2022 Daylong Online Retreat with Gil Fronsdal (2022-12-10 00:00:00 -0800) ******* 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 2022.12.10 at the Insight Retreat Center in Santa Cruz, CA. ******* Dec 10, 2022 Daylong Online Retreat with Gil Fronsdal (2022-12-10 00:00:00 -0800) ******* 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 2022.12.10 at the Insight Retreat Center in Santa Cruz, CA. ******* Dec 10, 2022 Daylong Online Retreat with Gil Fronsdal (2022-12-10 00:00:00 -0800) ******* 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 2022.12.10 at the Insight Retreat Center in Santa Cruz, CA. ******* Dec 10, 2022 Daylong Online Retreat with Gil Fronsdal (2022-12-10 00:00:00 -0800) ******* 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 2022.12.10 at the Insight Retreat Center in Santa Cruz, CA. ******* Dec 10, 2022 Daylong Online Retreat with Gil Fronsdal (2022-12-10 00:00:00 -0800) ******* 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 2022.11.28 at the Insight Retreat Center in Santa Cruz, CA. ******* Online Webcast with Gil/Kim/Ying/Shelley - November 27 2022 (2022-11-27 00:00:00 -0800) ******* 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 Matthew Brensilver on 2022.09.03 at the Insight Retreat Center in Santa Cruz, CA. ******* Instruction, Dharmette, and sitting meditation ******* 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

Intrusive thoughts are distracting and can cause great distress. In this podcast, you will learn:-        How our minds deal with intrusive thoughts.-        To apply skills to manage intrusive thoughts in clinical settings and private life.We have no control over our thoughts. One thought can lead to another until we are overwhelmed by a train of thoughts. The harder we try to stop these thoughts, the more the mind fights back and keeps going. But we can control how we relate to our thoughts. By naming or noting these thoughts, we can choose to get on the thought train or not. In that way physicians can manage more skillfully intrusive thoughts during their clinical practice and life.The home practice for module 3 is noting thoughts and seeing what happens when we get on or we step off the thought train and come back to the present moment.GUIDED MEDITATIONSAnchoring In The Present Moment Meditation (10 min) https://drjud.com/anchoring-in-the-present-moment-meditation/Sitting Meditation (15 min) https://drjud.com/dr-jud-sitting-meditation/Working With Thoughts  (27 min) https://drjud.com/working-with-thoughts-meditation/Reboot meditation (5min) click here Reboot To ask questions or suggest future topics, please comment below or connect with me on Twitter @judbrewerClick here to subscribe to my Youtube Channelhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi6bQu-Df7Wh2x3gFT5a8awBuild your body awareness using mindfulness practices, like those in the free "Breathe by Dr. Jud" app, available on both Apple and Android devices.Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/breathe-by-dr-jud/id1472340683For even more resources on anxiety, including free mindfulness exercises, visit my website: https://www.drjud.comFollow me on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/judbrewerFollow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dr.jud

A simple, no nonsense introduction for beginners to get started meditating.

J Brown recently interviewed me for his Yoga Talks Podcast. … Video version: www.guruviking.com/podcast/j-brown-yoga-talks-interviews-steve-james- 
Also available on Youtube, iTunes, & Spotify – search ‘Guru Viking Podcast'. 
… Topics Include: 00:00 - J's Intro 06:22 - J meets Steve 07:49 - J's alter-ego 10:18 - Living on a boat 15:43 - Outdoor survival and unraveling the mystery 19:57 - Facing fear 22:12 - Altar boy and martial arts 26:52 - Yoga training with Godfrey Devereux 27:18 - Pranayama 32:15 - The context of doing 38:19 - Steve's influences 39:57 - Shinzen Young 44:05 - Movement vs Sitting Meditation 51:05 - Working with Michaela Boehm 54:20 - Non-Linear Movement Method® 01:01:20 - Structured vs non-linear practice 01:07:30 - Long meditation sitting 01:13:43 - Why meditate? 01:20:32 - Mystical and supernatural experiences 01:33:43 - Experiences of profundity 01:38:32 - The mystic and structure 01:43:59 - J's concluding comments … J Brown Yoga: https://www.jbrownyoga.com/ Other times I have been interviewed: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlkzlKFgdknzwdzEdv0Q4Y9a25xDv_Xuv You can find me at: www.guruviking.com

This teaching is by Venerable Chang Wu. Venerable Chang Wu is the Director of Dharma Drum Vancouver Center in Richmond, B.C., a branch monastery of Dharma Drum  Mountain (DDM), founded by Chan Master Sheng Yen. In 1993, Venerable Chang Wu began practicing with Master Sheng Yen in  New York while she was a business professional holding an MBA. She  started her teacher's training with Master Sheng Yen in 1999 and entered  monastic life the next year. In 2003 she started teaching as Dharma and  meditation instructor and a few years later leading 1-day to 3-day  retreats. In 2009, she moved to Taiwan and initiated a translation  project of Master Sheng Yen's Complete Work. A few books on meditation  practice have been published now. While working on translating books,  she was active in leading meditation activities and teaching classes in  Dharma Drum Sangha University. Currently, she teaches meditation and  Dharma classes, gives public lectures and leads retreats at Dharma Drum  centers, meditation groups and Dharma centers in west coast North  America, London, Luxembourg and Switzerland. Other than meditation practice, Chinese Buddhism, inter-religious  dialogue, she also enjoys being in nature, walking in the woods and artworks. You can find more from her at https://www.chanmeditation.ca/ This podcast is run by the London Chan Meditation. You can find out more about us at https://londonchanmeditation.org

sitting meditation of 35 minutes just sitting with our selves without music or breathwork just experiencing whatever comes up from within and getting back to the body in the 3 steps- Going out of the autopilot into noticing the mind sensations and emotions. Going to the breath focusing on it fully. Zooming out with our spot light awareness into more of a flood light awareness focusing on the body as a whole as if the whole body is breathing. Again and again… This is a recorded of a live session, I encourage you to practice it again, experiencing pain and negative thoughts is likely to happen, just remembering the main goal of this practice is not to feel more relaxed or calm but to cultivate a new approach that helps to relate differently to lives experiences. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gilad-shavit/message

In this episode, Jordi talks about meditation. He mentions different types of meditation practices, some of the ideas that people have about it, what are the main ingredients of meditation, and what do we find when we meditate. Jordi finishes explaining carefully why we should all meditate.More about Jordi: jordiibern.comInstagram: @jordiibernYouTube: Jordi IbernSupport the show

A Meditation on Sitting, Benches, and Being the Highest Rated Parks Podcast

This sitting Yoga Nidra 15 minute practice is designed to give a quick down regulation of the nervous system, to release stress, muscle tension, and stabilize mood. Use it as a quick work break, before or after a stressful event or meeting. Use it to prepare for sleep or to start your day. The benefits of Yoga Nidra are so numerous, even in this quick and effective form.

This meditation accompanies episode 2 of Where Is My Mind. Niall Breslin guides you through a sitting meditation, a short reflection which invites you to simply sit and observe your breath, your surroundings, and how you are feeling. We all sit every day, we all breathe; the difference is your awareness.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this meditation the invitation is to switch from our normal mode of doing and moving to one of simply being. Sitting in a dignified attentive posture, head balanced on your shoulders, arms and hands resting in a comfortable position. The breath as the primary object of awareness, just noticing how the abdomen moves on each in breath and out breath. Your will notice your attention from time to time moving away from the breath. The mind may wonder into memories, thoughts of the day, worries, things to do and without giving yourself a hard time when you notice this has happen, just firmly but gently  bring your attention back to the sensation of breathing. In this meditation practice we develop the capacity for opening the senses, to the vividness, the aliveness of the present moment, expanding your skill to be curious and available to whatever presents itself without judgment. Follow my guidance as best you can.