This meditation is to help you pay attention anytime you have a moment of ease—when you’re on vacation, reading Reddit during a slow day at the office, or just sitting in the backyard after work. It will help you relax without shame, acknowledge your good fortune, and remember that everything will change, and that’s okay, too.

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Today’s meditation is a short practice to help you feel balanced and grounded. Using a metaphor of the deeply rooted lotus flower, we’ll plant an intention of security and confidence, even in our unstable and ever-changing world.

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An audio meditation to help you nurture lovingkindness, for yourself, your family, and for everyone.

Today’s meditation is designed to help you re-gather your fragmented awareness, let go of your fantasies and anticipations, and rest in present-moment experience of your body/mind.

Today’s meditation is a short and quiet timeout for your body and mind. The directions are brief — I don’t do a lot of talking because I’m practicing too, and I encourage you to do the same. I didn’t edit the recording either, so you might hear the background noises of my apartment in NYC — this is to remind you that you’re not alone. You and I are sharing our presence with each other as we experience this human moment together in silence and peace.

Today we’ll practice a simple meditation, to steady our body and heart, strengthen our capacity to recognize where our mind is, and learn that we can bring our attention to where we want it to be. We’ll take inspiration from this wisdom: The essence of the highest teachings lies within a simple moment of awareness. ~Khandro Rinpoche

It’s likely there are times you don’t feel meditating, and that’s okay.I recorded this meditation to help you approach your practice as a place of refuge: a space of where you can just rest without pushing or pulling or rejecting anything about yourself.  I hope it will support you to not-meditate and to not not-meditate either, so you can simply relax and experience this moment so you can meet your beautiful being.