This guided meditation was offered at Cloud Mountain on June 9, 2021 for the retreat "Dispelling Our Delusions: Exploring the Vipallasa and Drawing Inspiration from the Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns".

Impermanence is a cornerstone of Dharma teachings and a place to live from and come back to no matter where we are in our practice. Impermanence can bring us into contraction or expansiveness. It ultimately points to our own impermanence, and what we need to wake up to before we die.

The last meditation of the retreat: feeling into the benefits of our time of practice, and wishing them to be a support that can touch all beings: especially those who really need the peace and calm, the kindness and compassion, the clarity and wisdom at this time.

Working with the wandering mind and moving from one meditation object to another in meditation

Anatta & Meditation on the Elements

Guided Meditation

We inquire into doing and not-doing in five ways: (1) identifying the importance of a number of different kinds of "doing" and skillful effort in meditation; (2) pointing also to the centrality of a kind of not-doing (or letting go of doing) and receptivity in meditation; (3) the importance of investigating the "doer" and one's identity as a doer, in a number of different ways, in meditation and daily life; (4) the vision of a doing that comes out of being, that comes out of a deep not-doing, a vision that we find in different spiritual traditions--here we mention ways that this vision is found in Jewish, Christian, Taoist, and Buddhist traditions; and (5) how we explore and cultivate this doing coming out of a deep not-doing in daily life, in "flow experiences," in activities in which we are deeply grounded, and in such areas as sports, music, art, and dance.

This guided meditation was offered at Cloud Mountain on June 7, 2021 for the retreat "Dispelling Our Delusions: Exploring the Vipallasa and Drawing Inspiration from the Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns".

Muditā meditation

Our apparent reality arises from moods and interpretations that generate the world of time and space, self and other. It’s possible to meet the moods and mental states directly without creating stories or identities until the signs dissolve and only clarity remains. Meditation and engagement are skillful means to understand the dependent arising of our world, of suffering, and of skillful dhammas.