Guided Meditation w/ Mingyur Rinpoche

• Mingyur Rinpoche, Do I Need to Stop Thinking?
• (We don't need to clear our minds to "meditate")
• The "essence" of meditation is awareness
• Winged horse (Tibetan Wind Horse)
• Tibetan Buddhism as a form of Vajrayana
• Guided Meditation for Difficult Moments
• Mingyur Rinpoche (Tergar Meditation Community)

Guided Loving Kindness Meditation 💖

Guided Loving Kindness Meditation | Buddhism in English

(Buddhism) Mettā (Sanskrit maitrī) means loving-kindness [2, 3], friendliness [3, 4], benevolence [1], amity [4], goodwill [5], and active interest in the welfare of others [4]. It is the first of the "Four Sublime Abidings" (Brahma Viharas) and one of the Ten Perfections (pāramīs) of the Theravāda Buddhist school. More

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• Shraddha.lk, 9/24/22; Amber Larson (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Meditate w/ Bhikkhu Bodhi Zoom (Weds)

Virtual meditation over Zoom (BAUS)

Dharma Students, join us tonight at 4:00 pm (LA time, 7:00 pm NY time) for a guided meditation session over Zoom with the great Bhikkhu Bodhi.

Recorded instructions by Bhante (Venerable) each Wednesday evening as Bhikkhu Bodhi leads a meditation session on Zoom.

American scholar-monk Bhikkhu Bodhi

The session consists of a 15-minute vandana (chanting verses of homage), followed by a 45-minute guided meditation. All are welcome to join. For the texts recited, see class page on web: chanting text.

• BAUS at Chuang Yen Monastery
• CLASS INFORMATION:
• TONIGHT Wednesday, March 5, first day of Lent
• 7:00–8:00 pm ET (New York time)
• Bhikkhu Bodhi, English translator of texts

With metta

美國佛教會

Chuang Yen Monastery

BAUS (Buddhist Association of the United States)

• ZOOM Passcode: 368764
• Launch Meeting - Zoom
• Donation - BAUS

NOTE: This is a recurring meeting: from 7:00pm to 8:00pm Wednesdays

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• Meeting ID: 835 4090 0862
• Passcode: 368764 Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcYniDdmfU

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• 美國佛教會 2020 Route 301 Carmel, NY 10512
• RSVP (FREE): Guided meditation, chanting with Bhikkhu Bodhi (Zoom), Wed, Mar 5, 2025, 4:00 PM | Meetup
• To donate to Bhikkhu Bodhi or BAUS
• Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Ajahn Chah: samadhi (guided meditation)

Ajahn Chah: Developing samadhi (one-pointedness), Theravada Buddhism, Thai Forest Tradition 

(Samaneri Jayasāra - Wisdom of the Masters) Theravada Forest Tradition and Pali canon suttas.

This is a reading of a talk given to a group of lay practitioners on the topic of samadhi at Hampstead Vihara, London, England, in the late 1970s.

It is designed to be listened to as a guided meditation.

The Pali and Sanskrit word samādhi, usually poorly translated as “concentration,” is made up of three parts, a verbal root and two prefixes (sam+ā+dhi).

The last part, dhi, is a noun form derived from the verbal root dhā, meaning “to put or place.” The prefix ā gives direction and suggests “placing upon,” and the prefix sam means “gathering or bringing together.”

When combined and used in a Buddhist context, these elements add up to the sense of “unifying the mind and placing its awareness upon a particular object.”

Traditional sources also emphasize that the mind focuses on a single (eka) point (agga), and “one-pointedness” (Pali, ekaggatā, Sanskrit ekāgratā) is another common way of defining samādhi (Andrew Olendzki).

Ajahn Chah was a Thai Forest Tradition Buddhist monk and meditation master. He was an influential teacher of the Buddha-Dhamma, teaching many prominent Western monks, and a founder of two major monasteries in Thailand, Wat Pah Pong and Wat Pah Nanachat. He is reputed to have been fully enlightened, an arahant.

• Samaneri Jayasāra - Wisdom of the Masters, Sept. 11, 2022; Sayalay Aloka, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

DisclosureFest: Online Mass Meditation

Mass Meditation Initiative · Instruction to the Grid Activation

Live from Castaic Lake Lagoon Recreation Area: singing bowls and ethereal vocals

Ruby and DJ David Birdsong on various instruments perform through cedar incense

Free, live online group meditation: massmeditationinitiative.org

Ruby Chase and DJ David Daniel

Although DisclosureFest™ is postponed due to the fire in Gorman, the Mass Meditation Initiative is still happening ONLINE on Saturday, June 22, 2024.

• Virtual meditation at 2:00 pm
• Event Time Announcer - Mass Meditation (timeanddate.com)

The playful work continues... While the Post Fire has forced the postponement of the Festival until 2025, the Mass Meditation Initiative is first and foremost about pointing our collective energies towards uplifting humanity.

• Join in on Saturday, June 22 at 2:00 PM (Pacific Time)
• Soundcloud: Mass Meditation Initiative (instructions)

Can I connect with the collective consciousness?

The DisclosureFest Foundation will host a virtual program to focus meditation at healing the world under the full Strawberry Moon.

The new SITE maps out key energetic points for each of us to focus our intention on.

Buddhist pyramid sacred site, Borobudur, Java

Bring the good energy to heal the planet!

These points include sacred sites, energy vortices, and other important places where our positive intention can focus and do the most good.

Invite friends to join in, select the points to focus on for our energies, and sit with us on June 22 at 2:00 PM Pacific Time. Then afterwards at 7:00 pm, come to the free party.

• FREE TO RSVP FOR PARTY

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  Adrian and assistants lead the mass meditation

  Disclosure Project: FREE: DisclosureFest Vegan Potluck: Summer Solstice, Full Moon Ceremony, Music, Sat, Jun 22, 2024, 7:00 PM | Meetup
• Nature Center: FREE: DisclosureFest Vegan Potluck: Summer Solstice, Full Moon Ceremony, music, Sat, Jun 22, 2024, 7:00 PM | Meetup
• PasaDharma Foothills: FREE: DisclosureFest Vegan Potluck: Summer Solstice, Full Moon Ceremony, music, Sat, Jun 22, 2024, 7:00 PM | Meetup

DisclosureFest.org

The honeycomb gird over the Earth (Gaia, Bhumi, Tierra) for our mass meditation

CONNECT WITH US NOW: massmeditationinitiative.org

• MassMeditationInitiative.org, June 22, 2024; Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Jen Bradford, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

May's flower full moon guided meditation

First, let's go on a wholistic word journey with Kami (VP Kamala Harris and Desi (The Daily Show)

Flower Full Moon in May 2024 guided meditation

(Hidden Aura Healing) Happy full moon. It's the fasting day (uposatha), a time to observe the Eight Precepts. Let's open our creativity with the Flower Full Moon. Allow the mind to paint a symbol that represents peace. The May full moon is about blooming into manifestation. Relax with the flower moon. Creativity is an important part of life. And we are always creating our own reality with our thoughts and views. This guided meditation helps tap into creativity. We are powerful co-creators whether we intend to be or not.

Listen to this guided meditation on the website ad free@ hiddenaurahealing.com/onl... #fullmooninmay2024 #Flowerfullmoon #fullmoonmeditaion #moonmeditation

Rapper Lil Jon's "Total Meditation" (NPR)

Sensei Rap Guru Lil Jon; Usher, ft. Ludacris; CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Just a few years ago Lil Jon was producing booze-promoting trashy rap hits like "Yeah!"

WARNING: Filth, "Yeah!" by Usher song featuring Lil Jon (who also produced the song) and Ludacris is a crass, vulgar sexual exploitation pop-rap hit song that got so big it catapulted Usher to the 2024 Super Bowl Halftime Show with Taylor Swift dancing in the bleachers to it and amping up footballer Travis Kelcey to win and go party on the Vegas strip with strippers and alcohol after the game.

Rap artist Lil Jon's latest album is a guided meditation

Ayesha Rascoe, NPR, March 3, 2024 (7:59 am ET) Weekend Edition Sunday (8-min listen)

A moment of Zen from NPR's Ayesha Rascoe (pronounced \eye-eesh-uh ross-koh\): She talks to rapper DJ producer Lil Jon who's all turnt up about his new guided spoken word album, Total Meditation, finding peace while being the life of the party. [He got uh kol'ina'skuppy at fiddy, so maybe he koming dahn? It's a Southern thang (Rascoe's accent) y'all woodent git it.]

Lil Jon "Deep Relaxation" (official audio)

If you shake your bottle rocket and hold it in your crotch, it'll pop off and shoot everywhere.

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(LIL JON) Feb. 16, 2024: Now let's see if we understand this. The vulgar featured rapper who produced and sang on "Yeah!" with King of R&B Usher and Ludacris has had a change of heart and started practicing meditation?

(LMAFO ft. Lil Jon) "Shots" about binge drinking in social situations

Rapper/meditator Lil Jon

Moreover, he likes it so much, he's teaching meditation and laying down relaxation tracks on his latest album instead of the mindless rap and hip-hop songs fans expected?

Sadhu, sadhu, sadhu! (aka Hallelujah!) We're incredulous, but NPR's Blackest voice ever, Ayesha Rascoe from the Deep South (Durham, N.C.), assures us it's true on NPR radio ads.

She will be featuring the gangsta-rapper-cum-meditation-guide on tomorrow's episode of Weekend Edition Sunday (3/3/24).

Tune in to NPR at 8:00 am (Eastern), or at 2:00 pm (Pacific) as it repeats on scpr.org.

• A Rational Conversation: Lil Jon's History of Turning Up (The Record/NPR)
• Usher's Super Bowl Halftime show cemented his R&B legacy

#LilJon #DeepRelaxation #Meditation LIL JON'S MEDITATION ALBUM ➡️ liljon.lnk.to/TotalMeditation SOULCHAKRA.COM CLOTHING

July Full Moon Guided Meditation (video)

What July's Full Buck Supermoon in Capricorn means (womenshealthmag.com)

July 2023 Full Super Moon Guided Meditation | Chakra Attunement

(The Psychic Soul) July 1, 2023. Welcome to the July 2023 Full Super Moon Guided Meditation! Join Crystal of The Psychic Soul as we harness the powerful energies of the July 2023 full moon to shift, release, and balance our chakras (energy centers) under the potent full super moon now in Capricorn.

This guided meditation taps into the extra potent releasing and amplifying power of the July 2023 full super moon.

We can connect to lunar energies, invite Earth and cosmic energies to flow through us, balancing our chakras, and raising our vibrations.

The Capricorn 2023 full super moon holds special significance as it governs our manifestations. During this lunar phase, our words, thoughts, feelings, and visions have the potential to shape our reality.

It's a potent time to cultivate awareness of the energies we're intending within ourselves and projecting into the world.

Guided meditation offers numerous benefits for our overall well-being. By engaging in this practice, we can experience deep relaxation, reduced stress and anxiety, enhanced focus, improved sleep, and a strengthened mind-body connection.

Join this transformative guided meditation and embrace the potential for inner growth, peace, and chakra balancing.

Whether a seasoned meditator or new to the practice, this guided meditation is suitable for all levels of experience.

Get ready to tap into the power of the full super moon, align chakras, and manifest dreams in life.

If this meditation resonates, show support by giving it a thumbs up, leaving comments, and sharing it with others. The more engagement this meditation receives, the greater its reach, and together, we can positively impact humanity and shift the world.

If seeking more mind-body-soul nourishment under the full moon, explore instant access full moon ritual practices designed to help release, shift, and illuminate under the July Full Super Moon. Join there for additional transformative experiences.

INSTANT ACCESS: 🌝 ➡️ FULL MOON RELEASE RITUAL: Manifesting Under the Moon Full Moon Release Ritual Practices (thepsychicsoul.com)

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Summer Solstice 2023 Meditation (LIVE)

New cycle activation | summer solstice | meditation June 2023

(Calm Whale) Started streaming on June 19, 2023. Finding our bliss and rejuvenation is what this is about. The June summer solstice invites us to celebrate the abundance of earth and sun and the beginning of a new astrological cycle with shaman drum, gong, and handpan.

Love 💘

#calmwhale #hangdrummusic #astrology

March Guided Meditation w/ Ajahn Brahm

Ajahn Brahmavamso, BWSA, March 11, 2023; Amber Larson (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Who's this guy? Where does he come off meditating? He's already a rich and famous dad.

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Guided Meditation | Ajahn Brahm

(Buddhist Society of Western Australia) Streamed live March 11, 2023. Recorded at Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre, Perth, Western Australia.

Copyright Buddhist Society of Western Australia (bswa.org). Buddhist Society of Western Australia’s teaching's page: bswa.org/teachings. 

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Mantra: "Witness it, allow it, release it"

Natalie Thomas (The Now With Nat via MSN, 3/8/23); Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Mindfulness: Become present with this 4-minute mantra meditation (msn.com)

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The Now With Nat: Natalie Thomas

It's time to get mindful. Natalie Thomas ("The Now With Nat") is a yoga teacher with an easy four-minute meditation to become present with whatever is going on right now.

This is a great way to manage stress so that it doesn't manage us. No equipment is necessary, just a sitting position anywhere that's available and comfortable.

Reciting a "mantra" when we meditate is an easy way to get right in and relieve stress. This meditation is designed to focus on this mantra: "WITNESS IT, ALLOW IT, RELEASE IT."

During a session, let's see if we can observe any thoughts and emotions that are present or arise. Allow them to arise. Radically and completely allow them. Then release these thoughts and emotions through the breath. Exhale. Let go.

Mantras have the power to soothe anxiety within the body, while cultivating feelings of serenity, joy, and peace. Nat leads us: VIDEO

Ajahn Chah: Developing Samadhi (audio)

Samaneri Jayasāra - Wisdom of the Masters,  9/11/22 edited by Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly

Ajahn Chah: Developing samadhi (stillness, superconsciousness, one-pointedness), Theravada Buddhist Thai Forest Tradition

(Samaneri Jayasāra - Wisdom of the Masters) This reading is of a talk given to a group of lay meditation practitioners in England on the topic of samadhi at Hampstead Vihara, London, in the late 1970s. It was designed to be listened to as a guided meditation.

• Theravada Thai Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah

The Pali/Sanskrit word samādhi, usually misleadingly translated as “concentration,” is made up of three parts, a verbal root and two prefixes (sam+ā+dhi). The last part, dhi, is a noun form derived from the verbal root dhā, meaning “to put or place.” The prefix ā gives direction and suggests “placing upon,” and the prefix sam [complete] means “gathering or bringing together.” When combined and used in a Buddhist context, these elements add up to the sense of “unifying the mind and placing its awareness upon a particular object.” Traditional sources also emphasize that the mind focuses on a single (eka) point (agga), and “one-pointedness” (Pali ekaggatā, Sanskrit ekāgratā) is another common way of translating samādhi (Andrew Olendzki).

ABOUT: Ajahn Chah was a Thai Buddhist monk and meditation master. He was an influential teacher of the Buddha Dhamma and a founder of two major monasteries in the Thai Forest Tradition, including Wat Pah Nanachat, the International Forest Monastery for Westerners. He was reputed to be an arahant, a fully enlightened practitioner.

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Guided meditation: practice presence (audio)

Guided meditation: Treating ourselves to presence

(Functional Spirituality) Oct. 2, 2022. Let's gift ourselves a few minutes to be present, to be conscious, to be here now. Breathe in the moment, and connect to the life that is right here, right now. Let's let our body, emotions, and thoughts become grounded and melt into the Now. Notice the powerful shift that occurs.

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How to Meditate (SRF) and Diwali (video)

Yogananda.org; Jen Bradford (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Is this the way up Mt. Meditate?

The author of Autobiography of a Yogi gave personal instructions on how to practice the science of Kriya Yoga meditation, taken from the classes he gave to Americans for more than 30 years.

They are presented in detail in the "Self-Realization Fellowship Lessons."

The Lessons provide his practical guidance and techniques for attaining balanced physical, mental, and spiritual well-being — the health, healing, success, and harmony that yoga bestows on every aspect of life.

Maha Avatar Babaji, Kriya Yogi

These "how-to-live" principles are an essential component of any truly successful meditation practice. If not enrolled in the Lessons, find on these pages some basic instructions on how to meditate.

They can be used right away to begin experiencing the peace and communion with the Divine (the deva planes) that meditation brings. More: A Beginner’s Meditation (SRF)

• Self-Realization Fellowship: DBM Weekly Meetup
• Lahiri Mahasaya Commemoration Services, Sept. 26 & 30, 2022

Join in commemorating the mahasamadhi (great stillness and passing) of Lahiri Mahasaya, Monday evening, Sept. 26 and Friday evening, Sept. 30, commemorating his birth. Both services begin at 8:00 pm and are preceded with a group meditation beginning at 6:30 pm.

Diwali (Festival of Lights, Oct. 22)

Say "om* (aum)

SRF Glendale Temple presents Diwali, The Hindu Festival of Lights, which signifies the victory of light over darkness, good over evil, shining knowledge over dull ignorance. SRF will have a delicious vegetarian Indian dinner, followed by Chai and Chatter, a Kirtan (call and response singing), and a shortened version of Glimpses of a Life Divine. Doors open at 5:00 pm, dinner served at 5:30 pm. Tickets go on sale in the West Lobby on Sunday, Oct. 2, after the Sunday Service. Lots of volunteers needed for this event (get in free). Sign up West Lobby board.

• Diwali (Festival of Light), Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022