Teachings and Guidance on RAIN meditation.

Teachings and guided meditation on mindfulness of the body using sensations, sounds, and breath.

On Solstice, Ayya Anadabodhi speaks about enduring darker moments and difficult aspects of self that have momentum by applying sati (mindfulness) to gradually return to the light.

With all sensory and mental experience-body sensations, hearing , seeing, tasting, smelling, thinking emotions and moods.

A discussion of Equanimity and confidence and Mindfulness

We start with settling for about 8 minutes followed by about the same time with basic mindfulness practice. Then we explore "moderate" experiences of pleasant or unpleasant when they occur, whether a bodily experience, an emotion, or a thought (or a mix), experiencing pleasant or unpleasant and seeing whether there follows wanting (or not wanting) and reactivity (habitual grasping or pushing away). We close with some reflection on what we explored, with an emphasis on skillful aversion: Was some of the not wanting skillful? Unskillful? What do we find in some daily life examples of aversion? This exploration is related to the talk given a short time later.