A short talk exploring how taking refuge in sangha even while we're in seclusion, can strengthen samvega or spiritual urgency.
Closes with an invitation to explore in small groups, what's been learned in response to the Covid-19 situation and how it might deepen our dharma practice.
Exploring the balancing qualities of samvega, spiritual urgency with pasada, quiet confidence or trust, as support for our capacity to look more fully at the truth of impermanence. Ends with an invitation to briefly contemplate our own mortality.
Exploring ways to open more fully to the truth of impermanence and death, then looking at equanimity as an antidote to any tendency to swing between hope and hopelessness
Beginning by steadying and stabilising the body and heart-mind, then noticing our relationship to present-moment experience, opening to the simplicity of here ... now ... this ...
An exploration of the role of mudita, appreciative joy and gratitude, as a support for equanimity during challenging times.
Includes quotes from an interview with Rebecca Solnit on hope
https://onbeing.org/programs/rebecca-solnit-falling-together/#transcript
A short guided meditation beginning with a body scan, inviting any tension held in various parts of the body to release, then a few minutes of mindfulness of breathing
Suitable for complete beginners
