Exploring some common tendencies to over-effort or under-effort, with suggestions for finding a more balanced approach to practice overall, plus support for establishing and maintaining a regular meditation practice

How does perception shape our experience? And how easily can a perception become overthinking, obsessive thinking, or taking something personally? Together, we’ll explore how perceptions arise, which ones we may have outgrown, and which ones still pull us into repetitive stories. Drawing on the Buddhist teaching that what the mind frequently ponders becomes its inclination, we’ll explore how awareness can open new ways of relating to our experience.

Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including a poem by Jennifer Welwood | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene IV | Online Wednesday-Morning

Guided meditation on accessing the mind's natural spaciousness and radiance.

What is Good Food for the heart and what is not. Understanding the importance of what we feed the heart with,

Bhante Rahula's guided meditation, comments, questions and responses were offered on October 4th, 2026 at Karuna Buddhist Vihara in Sunnyvale California. 00:00 - 36:33 GUIDED MEDITATION 36:33 - 1:53:50 COMMENTS, QUESTIONS & RESPONSES 1:53:50 - 1:57:15 CLOSING AND BLESSING CHANT Bhante Rahula is the founder and spiritual director of Pannabhumi Monastery in Jalisco, Mexico. https://www.bhanterahula.com/#bhante If you would like to support Pannabhumi Monastery and and the work Bhante Rahula does please go to this link: https://www.bhanterahula.com/#support Visit Bhante's YouTube Channel (chiefly Spanish): / anatom%c3%adadelamenteabhidhamma

Being mindful of when thoughts are present and when they are not present. Noticing their ephemeral, changing nature. Finding stillness amidst thoughts.

Exploring thoughts not as their content, but as the phenomena that they are. Practices to realize their insubstantial and unsatisfactory nature.