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.

Drawing on the four foundations of mindfulness and the Four Noble Truths, we explore the difference between the inevitable difficulties of human experience and the suffering that arises through grasping and resistance. By noticing feeling tone, reactivity, and the embodied qualities of tightness and ease, we can begin to recognize moments of release and cultivate a wiser relationship with experience. Readings from The Life and Letters of Tofu Roshi by Susan Moon; Remembering How I Got Here in the First Place by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer; The Second Music by Annie Lighthart.

Exploring vedanā, or feeling tone, we notice the pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral quality of experience and the reactions that may follow. Staying grounded in the body, this practice invites curiosity about grasping and pushing away, and the possibility of responding with greater wisdom and freedom.

Beginning with the body as a home base for attention, we explore an easeful, gentle way of returning to bodily sensations and the breath. Sitting and walking practice support steadiness of attention and a growing capacity to be present with our experience without judgment.