Natural Meditation Podcast

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Sinopsis

Stephan Wormland, MA in clinical psychology and trained in Gestalt therapy. He has studied and practiced meditation in multiple Buddhist traditions for over 30 years and spent altogether 5 years in meditation retreats. Stephan was a monk in the Tibetan tradition for 11 years and teaches meditation in Buddhist centers in Europe.

Episodios

  • Finding a way to live - Tonglen

    09/06/2017 Duración: 45min

    This is a practice that you can do for a real-life situation you meet in daily life. Whenever you meet a situation that awakens your compassion or that is painful and difficult for you, you can stop for a moment, breathe in any suffering that you see, and breathe out a sense of relief. It is a simple and direct process. Unlike the formal practice, it does not involve any visualizations or steps. It's a simple and natural exchange: you see suffering, you take it in with the inbreath, you send out relief with the outbreath.

  • The Diamond in your heart - tonglen with another person

    08/06/2017 Duración: 39min

    Tonglen, or the practice of sending and taking, reverses the process of hardening and shutting down by cultivating love and compassion. In tonglen practice, instead of running from pain and discomfort, we acknowledge them and own them fully. Instead of dwelling on our own problems, we put ourselves in other people's shoes and appreciate our shared humanity. Then the barriers start to dissolve, our hearts and minds begin to open.

  • Befriending difficult emotions - Tonglen with yourself

    07/06/2017 Duración: 32min

    Practicing Tonglen is a powerful way to connect with yourself and all of humanity. We all experience sadness and other "negative" emotions at different times, yet when we do, we often feel very alone in it. This practice reminds us that we're not alone when we are in pain. If we have the courage to break the habitual pattern of pushing away the pain, we can experience deep compassion for ourselves and all beings.

  • Standing meditation

    06/06/2017 Duración: 25min

    The standing posture makes it possible to incorporate meditation into our daily lives. It requires practice, but once we get used to it, we can do it almost anywhere — standing on line, at the crosswalk, and in elevators. With our physical body aligned in a particular way chi or prana - life-force energy - is encouraged to find its natural rhythm as it flows through the meridian system, gently dissolving any blockages that may have been preventing this.

  • Tonglen Meditation 2 - Connecting with Buddha Nature

    03/06/2017 Duración: 39min

    Stephan Pende gives a short introduction into the four steps of tonglen and then leads a meditation helping you to connect with your resource, your refuge. This is the first important step in the practice of tonglen.

  • Tonglen - Questions and answers

    30/05/2017 Duración: 20min

    Tonglen can be translated as "taking in and sending out." It is a Buddhist practice that can assist us in countering the human tendency to resist emotional discomfort. Instead of engaging in the habitual response of pushing away pain, the practice of tonglen invites us to bring the discomfort close. It is totally counter-intuitive, yet it is a profound way to cultivate inner peace and compassion.

  • Tonglen Meditation 1

    29/05/2017 Duración: 23min

    Tonglen reverses the usual logic of avoiding suffering and seeking pleasure and, in the process, we become liberated from a very ancient prison of selfishness. We begin to feel love both for ourselves and others and also we begin to take care of ourselves and others. It awakens our compassion and it also introduces us to a far larger view of reality. It introduces us to the unlimited spaciousness that Buddhists call shunyata. By doing the practice, we begin to connect with the open dimension of our being. At first we experience this as things not being such a big deal or as solid as they seemed before. - Pema Chodron

  • Tonglen - Transforming the Heart of Suffering

    26/05/2017 Duración: 57min

    The tonglen practice is a method for connecting with suffering - ours and that which is all around us - everywhere we go. It is a method for overcoming fear of suffering and for dissolving the tightness of our heart. Primarily it is a method for awakening the compassion that is inherent in all of us. -Pema Chodron

  • Already home - part 4

    17/05/2017 Duración: 25min

    After you have identified the natural face of innermost awareness through ascertaining it in yourself, once it is experienced as underneath you like your own bed, your experiential floor, no matter what sort of conceptuality occurs, whether thoughts spread out or withdraw and cease, it is not necessary to intentionally work at stopping those conceptions. Rather, when good or bad conceptions dawn, whether good things happen or bad things happen, you realize on all occasions that these dawn from within the sphere of this unimpeded, penetrating innermost awareness that you have already identified, and when they cease, they cease into it. - Dalai Lama

  • Already home - part 3

    13/05/2017 Duración: 42min

    To practice self-inquiry, we can quiet the mind and ask “Who am I?” or “Who is aware right now?” or “Who is listening?” Then we can look gently back into awareness to see what is true. Ultimately, we find that there is no way for the mind to answer the question - there is no “thing” to actually see or feel. The point is simply to look, then to let go into the no-thing-ness that is here. The question “Who am I?” is meant to dissolve the sense of a searcher. - Tara Brach

  • Already home - part 2

    10/05/2017 Duración: 01h08min

    No matter what kind of consciousness we might consider, the clear light of innermost awareness pervades it. Ice, even when it is solid and very hard, does not pass beyond the nature of water. In the same way, no matter how gross, tough, or coarse conceptions might be, the place from which they dawn and the place into which they vanish when we no longer think them does not pass beyond innermost awareness. - Dalai Lama

  • Already home - part 1

    07/05/2017 Duración: 01h21min

    The whole point of meditation or prayer or whatever we are trying to do is to discover the fundamental principle of human nature, to go into this deep nature, to touch our mind, the fundamental principle of totality, nonduality. The moment we reach this experience there is no room for heavy concepts, heavy emotions or sentimentality. Just be! At the moment of this experience, there are no concepts labeled by the dualistic mind. At such a time there is no Buddha, no God, no heaven or hell. Just being - the great peace, the great satisfaction. - Lama Yeshe

  • Widening the Circle of Love - part 4

    05/05/2017 Duración: 01h03min

    Our fundamental awareness, Vajrayana asserts, prior to all patterns of self-centered clinging, is essentially unconditioned, pure and undefiled. Our basic awareness is a limitless expanse of emptiness and cognizance, like boundless space pervaded by sunlight, already endowed with all-encompassing wisdom and compassion.

  • Widening the Circle of Love - part 3

    04/05/2017 Duración: 59min

    The traditional image of equanimity is a banquet to which everyone is invited. Training in equanimity is learning to open the door to all, welcoming all beings, inviting life to come visit. Of course, as certain guests arrive, we’ll feel fear and aversion. We allow ourselves to open the door just a crack if that’s all that we can presently do, and we allow ourselves to shut the door when necessary. Cultivating equanimity is a work in progress. We aspire to spend our lives training in the loving-kindness and courage that it takes to receive whatever appears – sickness, health, poverty, wealth, sorrow, and joy. We welcome and get to know them all. - Pema Chodron

  • Widening the Circle of Love - part 2

    03/05/2017 Duración: 01h04min

    The wisdom taught in Mahayana traditions opens us to others in compassionate intimacy not only through insight into their condition but also through recognition of the ultimately undivided nature of all that exists. The non-dual wisdom of emptiness recognizes all beings as undivided from oneself in the empty, inter-dependent ground of all things (Sanskrit dharmadhatu), which supports an all-embracing, unconditional compassion for all creatures.

  • Widening the Circle of Love - part 1

    01/05/2017 Duración: 01h19min

    Compassion and wisdom are interrelated in varying ways within three leading Buddhist traditions. In early and Theravada Buddhism, compassion is a power for deep mental purification, protection, and healing that can support inner freedom. In Mahayana Buddhism, compassion becomes the primary means to empower and communicate a non-conceptual wisdom in which self and others are experienced as undivided. In Vajrayana Buddhism, unconditional compassion radiates forth all inclusively as a spontaneous expression of the mind’s deepest unconditioned nature. - John Makransky

  • 37 Practices - Verse 28-30

    30/04/2017 Duración: 01h35min

    Look again and again at what cannot be seen. At some point you see nothing - you really see nothing. You know, through your own experience, that there is no you in you, no fixed point, nothing. That experience makes all the difference. - Ken Mcleod

  • 37 Practices - Verse 27

    19/04/2017 Duración: 01h30min

    What is that stillness, that space, in which reactions arise and disappear? When you look at it, you see nothing at all. It is a bit frightening. It is like looking into the void of outer space. Something in you shrinks back. This is the other level of patience, letting your reactions to infinite nothingness come and go. - Ken Mcloed

  • 37 practices, Verse 25-26

    04/04/2017 Duración: 01h31min

    Transcendental generosity is generally misunderstood in the study of the Buddhist scriptures as meaning being kind to someone who is lower than you. Someone has this pain and suffering and you are in a superior position and can save them—which is a very simple-minded way of looking down on someone. But in the case of the bodhisattva, generosity is not so callous. It is something very strong and powerful; it is communication. - Trungpa Rinpoche

  • 37 Practices, Verse 22-24

    29/03/2017 Duración: 02h42min

    What you experience is your mind. Your mind is not a thing. It is not located anywhere. Your mind is what you experience. What you experience is your mind. It is a bit like a dream. - Ken Mcleod

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