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Loving-Kindness & Heart Meditations
Mondays · 7PM Pacific · With Ryan Burton & Ricardo Ruan
As a mother would risk her life to protect her child, her only child, even so should one cultivate a limitless heart with regard to all beings.
Metta Sutta, trans. Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Loving-kindness for beginners and experienced meditators alike. The Heart practices are essential for handling the difficulties of life and awakening. They help give rise to the enlightenment factors like tranquility, mindfulness and equanimity, which are the wholesome qualities every meditator needs. Difficult emotions, ups and downs, and the sense of having no idea what one is doing or what is going on are common signs that the Heart and mind are in need of strength. Metta can provide exactly this.
What You'll Learn
You'll develop resilience of the Heart and strengthen the enlightenment factors — the wholesome qualities of mind every meditator needs to meet the ups and downs of practice and life.
Learn MoreDream Yoga & Monroe Focus Levels
Saturdays · 9 – 11AM PDT
The mind is devoid of mind,
From the Eight Thousand Verse Prajnaparamita
For the nature of mind is clear light.
This teaching cycle is fully experiential. We employ dream yoga methods to extend lucidity into hypnagogia, dreams and dreamless sleep, with the aim of realizing that all states are transitional, empty and none other than the display of one's own Mind.
What You'll Learn
Practical dream yoga methods to stay lucid as you fall asleep, in your dreams, and even in deep dreamless sleep — building direct, firsthand insight that every state of mind is workable, and none of it is separate from your own awareness.
JoinMeditation, Samadhi & Cessation
Sundays · 9 – 11AM PDT
This class explores the deeper states of meditative absorption as direct gateways into awakening. At the pinnacle of samadhi, perception and feeling dissolve. We explore practices and teachings which act as pathways into the Heart of Awakening where various dimensions of enlightenment emerge.
What You'll Learn
Guided instruction into progressively deeper states of meditative absorption (samadhi), with direct teaching on the practices that lead toward cessation — where perception and feeling fall away entirely — opening pathways into deeper dimensions of awakening.
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