Tea with Mara

"February Meditation Challenge - Wrap Up!" is the finale' of our month of establishing or strengthening a practice. We reflect on the last week of practice in February, and we close out the practice. This was offered at Two Hands Sangha on our Day of Mindfulness. May you continue to grow and strengthen your practice. Enjoy!

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"February Meditation Challenge - Week 4" is a review of week 3 and a look ahead to week 4, as we wind down our month long effort to establish or strengthen a routine meditation practice. It's largely about honesty, with ourselves and others, and is a lovely conversation. I hope you'll find it useful leading into our March 1st Day of Mindfulness. Enjoy!

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“It’s The Little Things” is a Dharma talk and brief guided meditation on the topic of noticing and choosing small acts of kindness in dark or uncertain times. While traveling recently, I’ve been struck by how much goodness is quietly happening all around us; patience in long lines, shared laughter between strangers, tiny gestures of care that could easily go unseen. Gratitude practice trains the mind to look for this… and intention allows us to become part of it. This talk explores how karma unfolds in everyday moments, how we shape the emotional climate around us, and how choosing humor, patience, and kindness is powerful. I left my wife's spectacular sneeze in this one just for posterity. Enjoy!

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"February Meditation Challenge - Week 3" is the third week of discussing the wonderful book by Sharon Salzberg "Real Happiness" and working together as a community to build or strengthen a routine daily meditation practice. I hope you'll find some wisdom in something she shared in the book, or that I shared in this recording that helps you solidify a meditation practice in your own daily life. Enjoy!

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"February Meditation Challenge - Week 2" is a Dharma sharing based on the book by Sharon Salzberg "Real Happiness" and starts with a review of Week 1 and then moves into looking ahead to Week 2 of building a daily meditation practice. I hope you'll join us as we work toward establishing or strengthening our practices, and if you are local we will be culminating on March 1st with a Daylong to celebrate and keeping what we build together. Enjoy!

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"February Meditation Challenge - Week 1" is a discussion about the introduction and first two chapters of Sharon Salzberg's wonderful book Real Happiness. This is one of the books I recommend to new practitioners primarily because it is very simple and straightforward, practice oriented, information. If you want to join our local sangha in starting or strengthening your practice, start here, and grab a copy of the book for yourself and stay tuned here all month long. March 1st we will have a day of mindfulness to celebrate! Enjoy!

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"Resistance and Forgetting" is a Dharma talk and brief guided meditation to help with people who will be participating in our February Meditation Challenge to build a daily sitting practice. Of course it is useful for anyone, because we all resist and forget, but hopefully this talk will be a good reminder as people work through the things that get in the way of building that daily habit of sitting. I hope you enjoy!

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"Beginner's Mind, From The Beginning" is a dharma talk about beginner's mind and how and why it can be such a useful thing, as well as how it is so easily lost in our daily lives. I hope you'll find something useful in this talk. There's a brief meditation afterward. Enjoy!

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"Why Bother?" is a dharma talk offered at Two Hands Sangha about knowing our reasons for why we bother with practice. Getting to know our own needs and reasons intimately is key to establishing a steady reliable practice. This talk lays the groundwork for our month long effort in February to help people build a daily sitting practice. I hope you find it to be useful in your efforts. Enjoy!

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"The Spark" is a brief sort of meditation/dharmette offered to the MindfulnessVR community this week. Lacking a topic for the evening, we had a lengthy sharing and discussion check-in which only allowed for a brief meditation together. In the check-in someone asked for an exploration of the meaning of the first of the Three Gems; The Buddha. I offered my response as this sort of contemplative reflection. This one was brief enough that I wouldn't typically share it, but I'm hoping it might help others who are not clear on the idea behind this first gem. May it be helpful for you in some way! Enjoy!

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