The Warm Heart of Awareness: A Meditation with Ven. René Feusi
This is a guided meditation from the wonderful Venerable René Feusi. His loving guidance will open the warm heart of awareness within you.| How to Train a Happy Mind
A three-step contemplation from Kristin Neff to give yourself the compassion you need (and deserve). The post A Self-Compassion Meditation to Be Kind to Yourself appeared first on Lion’s Roar.| Lion’s Roar
Good. Continuing to come from the core, to come from the source, to come from radiant awakeness itself, the unmanifest, the infinitely, boundlessly, spacious, notice that this energy of awakeness is loving and joyous, it's previous to manifestation, it's previous to all problems. Its mood is exuberant celebration, creative joy, and love without limit. It does not say no to anyone or anything. And so, tune into that love and joy, and feel the energy of it. Feel the energy of it radiating out f...| Deconstructing Yourself
Scott Snibbe offers a talk and meditation to the Train a Happy Mind community on the question, Is enlightenment possible? The post Is Enlightenment Possible? #200 appeared first on How to Train a Happy Mind.| How to Train a Happy Mind
This is a guided meditation from the wonderful Venerable René Feusi. His loving guidance will open the warm heart of awareness within you.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Now, in this place of vast, open, awareness, ask yourself this question: What is peace? Don't answer the question with the machinery of your thinking, or with a memory or some kind of cleverness. Look into the sky of your own awareness, and see if there is peace. What is peace? The post Inquiry into the Open Sky appeared first on Deconstructing Yourself.| Deconstructing Yourself
Meditation Being the Stillness - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
What is Yoga Nidra? It’s a magical practice often translated as “yogic sleep.” Here’s what you need to know about Yoga Nidra + how to properly practice it.| YouAligned™
Venerable René Feusi talks about how focused awareness can help us live with joy—not just in meditation, but walking, sipping tea, listening to music, or even playing with your cat. The post Concentration Makes Us Happy! with Ven. Rene Feusi #198 appeared first on How to Train a Happy Mind.| How to Train a Happy Mind
This 20 minute guided meditation is based on the Tibetan Buddhist lamrim, offering a nonreligious way to train a happy mind.| How to Train a Happy Mind
In this week’s guided meditation, teacher and author Melli O’Brien offers a practice to unwind anxiety by connecting with a gentle and steady awareness when you are feeling stressed.| Mindful
Nothing needs to be refused. Let the breath travel the body without picking up speed. The clouds of thought haul across the sky. Let them come and go. Let the breath move the way blood moves: let it find its own rhythm.| Michael Stone
In this week’s guided meditation, mindfulness teacher and designer Toby Sola shows us how we can use what distracts us to strengthen and sharpen our attention.| Mindful
Welcome to this guided meditation on accessing joy with Tenzin Chogkyi. In this practice, we’ll take time to settle the body, connect with the breath, and gently open to the feeling of joy. The post Joyful Effort: A Guided Meditation with Tenzin Chogkyi #196 appeared first on How to Train a Happy Mind.| How to Train a Happy Mind
This meditation was recorded the day after the U.S. launched a new bombing campaign in Iran. Scott reflects on how to end war and violence.| How to Train a Happy Mind
It’s time to slow down, be present, and appreciate the world around you. Explore these summer meditations from Barry Boyce, Sharon Salzberg, Sebene Selassie, and Jessica Morey that will help you get started.| Mindful
Now, without engaging ideas at all, and noticing this wide open wide awake spacious, boundaryless, vibratory body and mind. Just notice directly what you notice when I ask you to ask yourself the question, what separates me from anybody else? Notice how that sense of wide openness welcomes everything, welcomes everyone. It's not rejecting anything, ever. Without adding anything, or trying to be a certain way, or imagining this, or trying to do that. Awareness itself is already completely we...| Deconstructing Yourself
Tenzin Chogkyi talks about one of the six perfections, enthusiasm or joyful effort. The post Joy and Enthusiasm—Even When Life’s Hard—with Tenzin Chogkyi #194 appeared first on How to Train a Happy Mind.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Join Scott for this meditation that summarizes every step of the path from the preciousness of life to the interdependent nature of reality. The post 10-Minute Path to a Happy Mind Guided Meditation appeared first on How to Train a Happy Mind.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Join Scott for this meditation that summarizes every step of the path from the preciousness of life to the interdependent nature of reality.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Meditation Feel the Love Outside the Mind - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Now, notice something very interesting. From the place of being the stillness that knows, is the energy of the body—this tingly, dancing energy of feeling alive, is that really separate? It's different, it's in motion, but is it separate somehow? Is it a totally separate thing from this awakeness? Feel—is it somehow totally separate from the awakeness? It's just in our imagination that the body energy and the awakeness are seen as two different things. That's a thought. When you're just i...| Deconstructing Yourself
For the last 30 meditations or so, we have often used Michael's technique, called "dropping the ball." This is a way allowing the mind to open up to the "natural state." Here we use the dropping the ball technique to go even deeper into letting go than we normally do.| Deconstructing Yourself
Susan Piver leads a short breath awareness meditation; if you were to go down the Buddhist path, you would start with this practice.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Susan Piver talks about her new book, Inexplicable Joy, which explores one of Buddhism's most famous and mysterious texts, the heart sutra.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Meditation Ease and Spaciousness in Body and Mind - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Transformative activist and restorative justice advocate Kazu Haga talks about his new book, Fierce Vulnerability.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Now, continuing to just sit in simple presence, notice if there's any tension in the core of your mind. Tension in the core of your mind is what keeps you grabbing onto thoughts, or grabbing onto ideas, or trying to figure stuff out, or trying to plan. It's like there's a fist in the core of your head, and it keeps grabbing on to stuff. Even though, of course, there's no fist in the core of your head, it feels like muscle tension almost. So, if you can notice that, the thing to do is relax th...| Deconstructing Yourself
Meditation Thoughts Without a Thinker - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Recently Black communities have increasingly turned to ancestral healing traditions—practices that sustained our ancestors through hardship.| Elev8
Nonduality Effortlessly Being the Welcoming Openness - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
See if you can find that subtle energy behind the breathing, that subtle energy behind the breathing will be moving up and down in the core of the body, but you may find you feel it also in the extremities, or on the skin, or whatever, but kind of the core of it is in the core. It's right in the center moving up and down the central channel. As you feel that subtle energy moving the breath, notice you might start feeling it and you might start feeling kind of emanations from that energy, feel...| Deconstructing Yourself
Meditation The Vipashyana Stack - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Meditation Relax into Mental Flow - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Meditation What Are You Avoiding? - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Scott Snibbe leads a meditation on compassion after the recent election of Donald Trump as the next president.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Notice how really, really, wide open things are. If you're engaged with machinery of thought, you’re way stuck down inside your mind, but, when you disengage and just come into being, it's really broad, it's really open, it's really relaxed, and free. What's it like when you step outside thought? It's bright, it's clear, there are feelings, there's a body, it's open, it's fresh, it's timeless, it's boundaryless. So, for yourself, without any words, and without engaging the thinking at all, ...| Deconstructing Yourself
So, if that awake space, that Gnostic, boundlessness, is apparent, then come to an even deeper sense of presence in that. It's not a thought, it's not a feeling, it's not a sight or a sound, it's not a special experience. It's just the space of experience itself, the awake space itself. There's no thought that can get at that. There's no way of looking that gets at that. It is the looking. If you try to be the one finding it, the one looking at it, that's just some thought and feeling pretend...| Deconstructing Yourself
Can you notice, as you sit in simple presence, that the room is part of that simple presence—it's not somehow separate. And that every conscious being in this room is part of that simple presence, they are not really separate on that level. You can just directly notice it, so it's not like some kind of thing you have to believe in, just notice it. The post Radiantly Awake Space of Love appeared first on Deconstructing Yourself.| Deconstructing Yourself
DJ Spooky and Scott Snibbe talk about Scott's new book, How to Train a Happy Mind, at The Rubin Museum.| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
An inside peak into one of Scott's guided meditations for the Train a Happy Mind community, on letting go of suffering, anger, & craving.| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
Venerable Thubten Chodron offers a Buddhist meditation to help work through anger in a compassionate and loving manner.| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
Venerable Robina Courtin guides a beautiful Tara meditation on hope that uses visualization and Buddhist teachings.| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
Meditation Effortless Nondual Awareness - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Meditation Vibrating Awake Space and Freedom - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Meditation Resting as Awake Awareness - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Nonduality Meditate Outside the Mind - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Spaciousness Finding Space and Freedom - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Resource for All the World's Sorrows - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Outside the Vacuum Cave - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
A Conversation with Sam Harris - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Nondual Freedom within Flow and Openness - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
The Simplest Thing - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
The Magic of Vajrayana with Ken McLeod, Part 2 Transcript - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Contacting the Spaciousness Within - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
The moon of bodhicitta, the moon of your own deepest already existing primordial purity. And so the light of this moon is reaching out and touching you with a sense of tremendous compassion. It's very kind, very loving, it's really open; it's delighting in your presence rather than judgmental; and you feel a real sense of friendship and warmth and being known and understood. Furthermore, this moon is tremendously wise and confident. It has perfect confidence and authenticity. It is what it is...| Deconstructing Yourself
It's this radiant, vibrant display in awareness rippling with color, light, sound, feeling, energy and yet also oddly unfindable or unlocatable and even what knows it is unknown. Now when I sound this bell. What's the question? The question is what knows this sound? The post What Is Noticing? appeared first on Deconstructing Yourself.| Deconstructing Yourself
ow breathing in, take the image of Avalokiteshvara into your heart. Breathe Avalokiteshvara directly into your own heart where the image plugs in and begins to radiate powerfully from your own heart. So that the energy and wisdom and compassion of Avalokiteshvara, which translates as the one who hears the cries of the world, starts beaming out from your being. The post The Wisdom and Compassion of Avalokiteshvara appeared first on Deconstructing Yourself.| Deconstructing Yourself
Allowing each in-breath to be nurturing, each out-breath to return the mind to space, absolutely vast, open, uncongealed space. If it wants to re-congeal, okay, it can happen on the in-breath with the nurturing quality, but then, on the out-breath, again it just falls open to become the sky without any effort at all, zero effort to do that. The post Everything in It’s Right Place Meditation appeared first on Deconstructing Yourself.| Deconstructing Yourself
And so Earth energy is rising up spreading out through the trunk and branches and leaves of the tree. This ancient, grounded, humble energy that is paradoxically both humble and noble. And the branches of the tree spread out into the vast, open sky, and the brilliant warm, healing, sacred light of the Sun is soaked up by all the leaves of the tree and runs down the branches and into the trunk. The post The Tree of Earth and Sky appeared first on Deconstructing Yourself.| Deconstructing Yourself
When awareness recognizes itself, recognizes what it's always been it feels a kind of joy. It's just the joy of openness, the joy of no constriction, and also the joy of connection. There's no lack of connection and togetherness. Just notice that kindness and joy and connection radiating out in all directions, bringing relief in all directions to everyone everywhere. Kindness, peace, and ease to all beings everywhere. The post Just Ripples in the Infinite Ocean of Awareness appeared first on ...| Deconstructing Yourself
No matter how much thinking arises in this vast, boundless space, the space of awareness is not disturbed at all. It remains perfectly still. No matter how much emotional difficulty or physical pain arises in this space, awareness itself is not bothered or harmed in any way. This vast space of awareness is not something we create or generate, it's already there from the very beginning. I would say we just have to notice it, except it's what's noticing. So we don't even have to notice it. It's...| Deconstructing Yourself
It's funny, you don't really have to pretend or imagine that you are like the sky because that is the actual nature of your own awareness, your own mind. Already, since the very beginning, your natural mind is wide open, utterly awake and aware and bright: effortless, welcoming, clear, and beautiful. So just notice that nature of your own mind and just rest as that. It's not something you're generating, it's always been there. It's not something you have to find, it's the thing that's looking...| Deconstructing Yourself
We rest as bright, clear, awake awareness and that we can rest in. And when we're resting as awareness, awareness is not a tennis shoe and a dryer, it's a vast sky that is always peaceful, that is loving, that is joyous, that is really bright, that's really awake, and then if there are thoughts happening? Great. If there are other emotions happening? Great. If there are social feelings happening? Great, right? All that is fine because we're resting as this natural awareness and it's spacious,...| Deconstructing Yourself
Remember that because we are already existing fully awakened enlightened beings. You know, Green Taras, Buddhas, Shiva, Shaktis, whatever your belief system, whatever the most sacred, most awake, most compassionate, most loving being is, we are already all that. And so it doesn't matter what the thoughts are. They can be things like I was abused so much as a child I can never recognize my buddhahood. That thought is empty and it's not true because the buddhahood is stronger than that. The pos...| Deconstructing Yourself
Guided Nondual Meditation by Michael Taft Streamed live on Feb 3, 2022 So again, remove your glasses, get in your meditation posture, whatever that might be. I’ve gone over the posture several times in detail recently so I’ll just say get in your meditation posture, whatever that might be. Make sure it feels nice for… Read More »Resting in Natural Awareness without Effort The post Resting in Natural Awareness without Effort appeared first on Deconstructing Yourself.| Deconstructing Yourself
“If someone says ‘Love in the Time of Corona’ one more time I am literally going to punch them." A post is about knowing when and how to meditatively engage with our anxiety and our discomfort, and knowing when and how to pull back and rest.| Jeff Warren
