by Marco | Jan 28, 2021 | Dharma Talks, Disappointment & Loss, Self-Soothing Practices, Skillful Living
The Dharma of Discouragement Discouragement from your past and imaginings about how bad the future will be drain your energy and cause you to fail. When you embrace starting over as a practice, you focus instead on what you are doing right now and what you need to do... 
by Jeanne Ricci | Jan 9, 2021 | Meditations, Self-Soothing Practices, The Four Brahmaviharas, The Seven Factors of Enlightenment
Finding Equanimity in Meditation Practice keeping the mind balanced when physical sensations and sounds arise during meditation. The mind can stay balanced even during the unexpected. Dharma Wisdom with Phillip Moffitt · Finding Equanimity in... 
by Jeanne Ricci | Jan 9, 2021 | Meditations, Self-Soothing Practices, The Four Brahmaviharas
Compassion Practice Karuna, or compassion, is a state of mind/heart that can be cultivated as a practice. Compassion is an intuitive response to someone else’s suffering, or your own. Sit quietly, evoking an image of one self or another and repeat this phrase... 
by Jeanne Ricci | Jan 8, 2021 | Dharma Talks, Self-Soothing Practices
Self-Soothing and the Dharma Self-soothing begins with softening into your experience and then applying mindfulness to recognize that “this moment is like this.” From within the spaciousness that this softening creates, you can start to investigate the experience and... 
by Jeanne Ricci | Dec 18, 2020 | Meditations, Self-Soothing Practices, The Seven Factors of Enlightenment
Fully Arriving In The Here And Now Meditation This is a guided meditation that can help you stay in the present, here and now. Here, now, not before, not after. There is no presence, no agency in the past. It’s a memory of something gone, no longer present.... 
by Marco | Dec 12, 2020 | Self-Soothing Practices, Study Guide, The Five Hindrances
The Fruits of Forgiveness The primary beneficiary of forgiveness practice is you. Read the following article and listen to the suggested audio dharma talk, and then deepen your understanding of the teachings by contemplating the reflections provided below. Articles:...