Results for "self-compassion"
Deprogramming the Story of Self
Our life experience is shaped by the stories we tell ourselves and the underlying belief that “something is wrong with me.” Meditation allows us to recognize and release the grip…
Self-Forgiveness with RAIN
Our inability to forgive ourselves blocks healing and freedom. As we explore in this talk, the habit of judging and blaming ourselves traps us in fears, prevents intimacy with our…
Trauma Sensitive Meditation – The Power of Self-Nurturing
Download the free PDF While we all need to customize meditation, this is particularly important for those living with PTSD or strong, potentially overwhelming emotions. This talk explores how trauma…
Transcript: The Sacred Pause
…end up being engaged with doings that cause harm and lock us into a doing-self. They lock us into a feeling of a self that is in trouble — deficient,…
Transcript: Taking ‘The Exquisite Risk’: An Undefended Heart – Transcription
…skin or cocoon… As we pause, just sense the pausing—letting yourself rest for a moment, open. And just feel yourself breathing and sitting here. Bring to mind someone who is…
Blog: Planting Ourselves in the Universe
…the sense of small self—the perception of our own unworthiness. Gautama did not try to use a meditative technique to prove himself. Rather, he touched the earth and asked it…
Blog: “Something is Wrong with Me”
…of compassion widens endlessly. In holding ourselves with compassion, we become free to love this living world. This is the blessing of Radical Acceptance: As we free ourselves from the…
From Dragons to Schmoos – Meeting Life with Compassionate Presence
The trance of unworthiness is sustained by our aversion to the dragons – the difficult emotions and related behaviors that are a deeply conditioned part of the human experience. In…
Meditation: Awakening Compassion with Tonglen (11:35 min)
Our hearts awaken as we let ourselves be touched by the suffering within and around us. They shine as we respond with care to what has touched us. This meditation…
Blog: Turning Toward Fear with RAIN
Turning Toward Fear with RAIN Adapted from Tara’s new book: Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of R.A.I.N. In a far-off land, word spread…
From Dragons to Schmoos – Meeting Life with Compassionate Presence
The trance of unworthiness is sustained by our aversion to the dragons – the difficult emotions and related behaviors that are a deeply conditioned part of the human experience. In…
The Grounds of Living Compassion
A critical question on the spiritual path is how we can bring the loving presence awakened by meditation into every facet of daily life. This talk explores the conditioning that…
Compassion in Action
Meditation: Tonglen – Discovering the Boundless Space of Compassion (5:53 min.)
This short version of the Tibetan Tonglen practice guides us in courageously opening to the suffering within us and all beings, and allowing that suffering to be held in the…
Tonglen – Transforming Suffering into Compassion (Japanese) ~ トンレン−苦しみから慈悲の心へ
チベットでは、トンレンという全てを慈悲、哀れみの心で包み込むという瞑想方法があります…
Guided Meditation – “Compassion Practice – Tonglen”
Our deepest wisdom and purest actions arise out of open-hearted presence. This meditation is drawn from the Tibetan tradition and carries us home to the vastness of loving presence….
Compassion Towards All: Moving toward a Plant Based Diet
…beautiful language, will we be able to answer them? When the planet herself sings to us in our dreams, will we be able to wake ourselves, and act? Gary Lawless…
Blog: Looking Through the Eyes of Another – Transforming Separation into Shared Consciousness
…In Buddhist compassion teachings, this full presence is the grounds of Taking and Sending — a compassion practice that guides us in taking in the experience of another person, and…
Inquiry and Naming: Practices to Dispel the Trance
…important to approach inquiry with a genuine attitude of unconditional friendliness. If I were to ask myself what wants attention with even the slightest aversion, I would only deepen my…
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