In this nineteenth installment of the ongoing live series with Wendy Nash inquiring into meditation practice on and off the cushion we plan to explore the ins and outs, ups and downs, and pros and cons of augmented meditation methods, mostly from an outsiders perspective — things like: brain wave binaural beats, isochronic tones, usingContinue reading “Augmented Meditation (Methods) | March 21, 2024 “Meditation Q & A With Wendy Nash” #19”
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Getting Your Dharma Fix With Justin Otto
On February 5, 2024 Dharma junkie Justin Otto and I chat about his background, how he really got into mediation in jail and particulars on how it unfolded after landing there by way of someone else’s trumped up charges, an addiction journey after adolescent cancer, and plenty of dhamma like the Four Noble Truths, theContinue reading “Getting Your Dharma Fix With Justin Otto”
How Time Meditates | February 23, 2024 “Meditation Q & A With Wendy Nash” #18
In this eighteenth installment of the ongoing live series with Wendy Nash inquiring into meditation practice on and off the cushion we explore how our views, perceptions and experiences of time influences, colors and flavors mediation practice and our daily lives. Potential resources: . . . look for how a sense of time is formedContinue reading “How Time Meditates | February 23, 2024 “Meditation Q & A With Wendy Nash” #18”
Catalysts For Awakening And Change Series: Potency And Experiences With Tim Bui
Tim Bui and I, in this Jan 14, 2024 recording, talk: potency, awakening experiences and processes, removal, identity, ego, embodiment, depression, emotions, wounds, transmutation, visions, clarity, spiritual practices, teachers, Vajrayāna Buddhism, retreats, healing, Mexico, self, not-self, existence, Buddha nature, nothingness, interconnectedness, weak(ening) goal barriers, doing, non-doing Biography High Performance Sleep Coach focused on helping purposeContinue reading “Catalysts For Awakening And Change Series: Potency And Experiences With Tim Bui”
Catalysts For Awakening and Change Series: The Awakening Heart
Randi Green and I converse on starting some of the awakening processes, especially those of the heart Or listen via Insight Timer (app or website)
Meditation Spaces | January 23, 2024 “Meditation Q & A With Wendy Nash” #17
In this seventeenth installment of the ongoing live series with Wendy Nash inquiring into meditation practice on and off the cushion we talk meditative environments and spaces — mostly external via showing images of them — for one’s “personal” (formal) meditation space, group spaces, etc References and related links: (Ways to) join these Q &Continue reading “Meditation Spaces | January 23, 2024 “Meditation Q & A With Wendy Nash” #17”
Neither Pleasant Nor Unpleasant Follow-up To “Engaging The Abhidhamma With Tony Bernhard”
This is a clip of my comments to Tony Bernhard about not needing to believe nor disbelieve fantastical accounts from the suttas during “Engaging the Abhidhamma” live event. But most of this is actually my newly recorded follow-up to musings to Tony on the “neither pleasant nor unpleasant” portion of vedanā (hedonic/feeling tone) not seemingContinue reading “Neither Pleasant Nor Unpleasant Follow-up To “Engaging The Abhidhamma With Tony Bernhard””
Nomadic Meditation | January 3, 2024 “Meditation Q & A With Wendy Nash” #16
In this sixteenth installment of the ongoing live series with Wendy Nash inquiring into meditation practice on and off the cushion we chat about what it’s like maintaining a consistent formal (international) mediation practice in/given sometimes significantly fluctuating and uncertain conditions. We also touch on some everyday meditative techniques possible outside of more formal sittingContinue reading “Nomadic Meditation | January 3, 2024 “Meditation Q & A With Wendy Nash” #16”
Lankavatara Sutra: Notes And Questions
Shortcut to this blog post: https://tinyurl.com/redpinelanka If remembering correctly the only text the legendary Bodhidharma took with him to the East was the Lankavatara Sutra. That in itself ought be enough to read it. So after urging of a Dharma friend; the perception were it seems Chan has moved away from [amazon affiliate program link]:Continue reading “Lankavatara Sutra: Notes And Questions”
Meditation Retreats | December 12, 2023 “Meditation Q & A With Wendy Nash” #15
In this fifteenth installment of the ongoing live series with Wendy Nash inquiring into meditation practice on and off the cushion we explore meditation retreats both from our lived experience and otherwise including formally, informally, attending, teaching, what to look for, what’s important, what happens internally and externally, and how retreats “change” us and theContinue reading “Meditation Retreats | December 12, 2023 “Meditation Q & A With Wendy Nash” #15”
Integrating Presence 