(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflections on our body as nature and subject to the conditions of nature, including change and death. Reflections on the mind as also part of nature. Wishing well for all can come naturally when we recognize we are all in the same fragile situation.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Bringing a quality of metta or goodwill to your Insight Meditation or mindfulness practice.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Bringing a quality of metta or goodwill to your Insight Meditation or mindfulness practice.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Wishing well for all beings through using categories of beings

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Bringing a tone of compassion to one's metta practice when encountering suffering in oneself or others

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Beginning the practice of metta with establishing well-wishing for yourself and someone easy to send goodwill towards.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Beginning the practice of metta with establishing well-wishing for yourself and someone easy to send goodwill towards.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The past and future are only thoughts in the present. But even the present moment is constructed, concocted, conditioned and may not exist absolutely as we believe it to be. Our experience of the senses is dependent on our sense organs thus animals have different eyes and experience the world very differently. Different human cultures experience and interpret sense experience differently as well. Plus practice tips on week 3 of a monthlong retreat.

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Developing awareness of Vedana or Feeling Tone, that each moment has a valence of pleasant, unpleasant or neutral. Guided meditation on this theme and the habitual reactivity that accompanies each.