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Mindfuling

238 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings

Mindfulness Meditation is not a thing — it is an activity of doing. It is a key to an eight faceted practice capable of freeing us from discontent. Being mindful is being deeper than the ocean, stronger than practiced aversion, quicker than chronic bad habits, and easier than pie!

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M#283 Chipper

October 01, 2022 02:02 - 17 minutes - 39.5 MB

In a very real way, instrusive sounds are gifts when practicing! Hear it and practice being with the conditions you can't control. This dosn't mean you don't at times wisely adjust conditions, like turn down the AC when it not needed etc.

M#282 Extremely

July 19, 2022 19:45 - 23 minutes - 53.8 MB

Hot enough for you? Cold enough? Is it now enough for you!? What is the story and what is the reality? Practicing with extremes requires you to notice them first, last and always. Put another way be actively mindful. Being with the sensation of extreme heat is a relatively easy practice, object, to be with. Recognizing when pain has been approached and adjusting is the wise thing to do. Often a simple adjustment is part of the practice not the end. Note: this recording has more wind buffetin...

M#281 With Aloft

June 15, 2022 16:00 - 17 minutes - 39.7 MB

Practice where you actually are. Understand you will have to adjust your expectations to match your likely conditions, quickly and openly to maintain the relaxed and awake quality of being. It's good to practice in relatively novel spaces. www.ssimc.org for online meditation class info.

M#280 Paradox Clapping

April 15, 2022 16:12 - 32 minutes - 75.2 MB

It has been a busy spring, this longish episode does some catching up! Its not a riddle! Not a puzzle! Sometimes a question but without a logical, linear sort of answer. The more you wisely practice, the more you wake uP. rss link to the newish Now, Dhammapada podcast mentioned Keywords: paradox, mindfulness, breath, body, koan, view

M#279 Sit A Lot

February 28, 2022 22:40 - 18 minutes - 8.94 MB

Practice in your car. No waiting. No shopping. For real, all the sounds and sights and barks are a part of the mindfulness.   *** For my new Dhammapada centric podcast Now, Dhammapada (mentioned at the end of this episode) try here: awakewax.substack.com Soon, you should be able to find it on your favorite podcatcher ***

M#278 Lighting

January 31, 2022 22:55 - 12 minutes - 14.1 MB

The object of light. Photons. Object with which you make contact. Collect your attention, bring it back to the light. Artificial or natural. Work with the available visibly changing. Yes, blink! Energizing... Keywords: Change, meditaton, mindfulness, blink, shadow

M#277 BeginEnd

December 31, 2021 14:28 - 31 minutes - 34.6 MB

Understanding the difference, the conditions of your practice, compared to not practicing with the podcast. Also very different than being in a class. Mindfulness of body, often is the place to begin and end, regardless of conditions. What to try, when you have too much energy or perhaps too little energy whist sitting. Awake AND relaxed. Not sleeping. Not hyper alert. Mindfuling...  

M#276 Night Out

November 22, 2021 22:48 - 17 minutes - 19.8 MB

Practicing outside is different. Especially in the Fall. What is available, obvious? Work with it. Practice every day, not like this but like with what you really have going on. Sound meditation. Awake. Standing is wakeful. Keywords: Lite, Light, Dressed, Cold, Cool, Sound, 

M#275 Walkin the Dog

October 15, 2021 01:09 - 14 minutes - 16.9 MB

Can you be mindful while walking the dog? What are you doing? Pretty complicated if you... are trying to do too much. Simplify and pay attention to your companion. Walking the dog is doing something very complicated compared to sitting and you are likely very connected to a very different sort of being with a very different set of interests! Amazing. Keywords: Canine, coffee, walk, nosey, tension, attention, mindfulness, woof

M#274 Stand Out Letting Go

September 04, 2021 16:20 - 17 minutes - 8.54 MB

Prpacticing standing meditation outdoors is just awesome. Real and potentially confusing. Keeping it relatively still you will see a crazy mind, becalmed over time!  Even amidst a pandemic there is great flexibility being developed. Keywords: Insight, Presence, conditions, mindfulness, sound, heartmind

M#273 Blueberry Mind

July 26, 2021 17:23 - 20 minutes - 38.3 MB

Picking blueberries mindfully and listening to someone pick blueberries in your space/time are very different activities... Keywords: Mindfulness, insight, outside, blueberry, cultivation, practice, relaxation, wakefulness, sweet

M#272 Contact Listening

June 17, 2021 16:34 - 14 minutes - 33 MB

Listening outside, a lot to contact with the shifting weather. Sound is a type of contact and with a podcast we can share this slice but there is more... Keywords: ambient, rain, sound, feel, object, collecting attention, 

M#271 Bench Sit

May 26, 2021 19:21 - 21 minutes - 24.3 MB

Practicing awareness of sound outside sitting on a bench. Sitting differently than you might usually sit, on a bench, matters. Working  with what actually is and focusing attention. Simple practice, but not easy...  

M#270 Continuity LandMindScaping

April 30, 2021 21:43 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MB

Cultivating ease and awareness from a relatively still body to a body in contact to a body investigating with the same sort or ease and awareness allows a peaceful seeing and perhaps knowing.  keywords: body, sound, field, bird, contact, movement, conditions and investigation

M#269 Sound Rich Presence

March 24, 2021 17:23 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MB

Working with the pleasant sonic conditions is not the same as just enjoying. Awake and relaxed in a collected moment to moment presence is practiced.  Keywords: Mindfulness, sound, birds, dinosaurs, distraction, pleasant, noise, rooster, flicker, cardinal

M#268 Roosters Cardinals Moxie

March 08, 2021 20:45 - 10 minutes - 9.94 MB

Ambient object. Spring is a doodling. Being outside being with what ya got. Not a listening and flowing more of an active movement to moment hearing and let-go-ing into hearing. Again and again. Quite rich in these New England conditions. Bright red cardinals, deep blue jays, the swoosh of automobiles in the distant wash. Oh, and surprise a canine bell! Standing. Wet wooshes. Keywords: mindfulness, roosters, loud sounds, unexpected, change, totality, standing, posture

M#267 Marshmallowing

February 20, 2021 23:54 - 10 minutes - 9.97 MB

Practicing outside in the snow. A very fluffy marshmallow world is one way of describing these conditions. So, I work with what I got. You? Probably different for you but you do have conditions. Perhaps subtler. A fan. Contact is the object. Keywords: epidermis, body, mindfulness, clear, intention, crunchy, future, past, ease, wakeful

M#266 Crunchy Walking

February 08, 2021 23:54 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MB

Walking outside after a snow storm. Formal meditation, under these conditions, the sound of walking is really prominent. We can work with this. Not an exploration, it is a focused easeful practice that is appropriate for these conditions. Listening as a podcast your practice will be a bit different but you can still use sound as an object. If the timing is right an online retreat opportunity: February 14, 9am - 12pm EST, please go to www.ssimc.org/registration for more info. Perhaps I will...

M#265 Wicked Cold

January 31, 2021 10:43 - 3 minutes - 2.13 MB

Mindful of a cold, wind-licked body. For a little bit. Easy to notice and to be with, but ya don't have to make yourself ill. If your inside this practice of weather upon the body may be more difficult but less uncomfortable. Inside you can safely stay with the practice. Outside in relative challenging conditions less time can be the wise practice. Keywords: awareness, foundational, wind, weather, mindfulness, snow, crunch, quick

M#264 Capital Long View

January 25, 2021 01:20 - 59 minutes - 47.7 MB

An edited recording of an online (errr, pandemic still raging) class concerning Wise View offered on the day of the storming of the US Capitol by the profoundly deluded. The Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path and a whole lot of examples of how to get to know discontent and its HUGE range. Guided meditation occurs deep in the recording. Keywords: Buddha, outrageous, reality, life, conditions, don't like, ssimc, knowing, ignorance, experience, story, dukkha, sukha, sedition, cat, dog

M#263 Anticipatory

December 12, 2020 18:23 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MB

Not present in the relaxed sense of awareness is a hallmark of being in anticipation. There is a feel, a feeling-tone to anticipation. It is a form of disconnect and discontent when it persists. Notice how it feels in the body, in the mind and in the heart and just being with the breadth is known for its peace. Anticipation happens, but you have a choice in how much it occupies your heartMind. Keywords: COVID, mindfulness, meditation, practice, breathe, body, awareness, holidays

M#262 Pandemic Fatigue

December 04, 2020 23:54 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MB

Ever fresh is this practice. Regardless of conditions. Time disappears. The story recedes. Ease of body, mind, heart in parity. Awake. A different kind of sitting is this meditation. Wakefulness. Tired happens but Pandemic Fatigue is optional. Keywords: Meditation, quiet, language, refrain, sensations

M#261 Post Aerobic Brains

November 23, 2020 23:54 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MB

Not simply thinking better. Not simply calming down. Not just after working out. Insight into the workings of your mind. Your heart. Your body. Keywords: Basketball, rest, clarity, sitting, quiet, open, eyes, quiet 

M#260 Holly Wood

November 13, 2020 23:54 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MB

Sound concentration out in the woods. Many distractions may present. Can't control the world, shouldn't expect sameness. Keywords: Nature, standing, sound, variables, distraction, fascination, present

M#259 OakleyDoakly

November 07, 2020 17:34 - 16 minutes - 14.6 MB

Using the sound of Fall as an object. Outside meditating. Standing, maybe sitting. Keep it coming back to the sound that is available. White Oak, Red Oak, Blue Jays and combustible engines. It's all good, as they say and it is if you keep it simple, present and wakeful. Keywords: Tree, Forest, Tradition, Quercus, Leaves, Bell, Acorns, Doggos

M#258 PunkPop Timing

October 30, 2020 17:23 - 2 minutes - 2.56 MB

Practice daily a little bit. A pop song's timing, what will fit comfortably on the B side, or even the A side. You have to get regular, daily. Gradually this will grow in time and maybe even frequency. Eventually you will WANT to practice intensively for hours of the days but start slow and steady. Meditate. You don't have to turn it into a big production to get started but eventually don't be surprised if your sitting for sides of long players, CD lengths even, Operatic Cycles... Keywords...

M#257 Squat!

October 22, 2020 20:32 - 5 minutes - 4.95 MB

Outside and going easy on the knees but still in a squat and listening to the leaves fall down. Soft gaze, not scanning, relaxed and at ease in and width. A short practice. Keywords: knees, earth, close, easy, fall, listening to what comes and goes, traffic, crickets, birds, outside, connected 

M#256 Friendly Pain

October 16, 2020 16:34 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MB

Pain is inevitable for all but the tiniest fraction of humans. Get to know it through practice, s l o w ly, over time and it does not get worse. It doesn't morph into suffering. But you have to practice when the pain is relatively low but a real physical experience.  Keywords: dukkha, mindfulness, meditation, cabinetry, caffeine, allergies, foggy, neti, sensation, foundation, breath

M#255 The Door of Anxiety

October 09, 2020 13:29 - 16 minutes - 15 MB

The option other than "thinking" your way out of anxiety takes practice. Mindfuling is that practice. Keywords: Dog, Past, Obsessions, preparation, overdoing-it, meditation, breath, body, posture, ease, awareness

M#254 Light

October 01, 2020 16:34 - 11 minutes - 11 MB

Gathering your attention with the help of light. Using the sense door of sight encounter light, and notice when you have started to leave the light. Not a figuring, out or in. Keywords: Concentration, sight, definition, phenomena, ease, insight, ssimc, classes

M#253 Present_ing Ambience

September 25, 2020 16:34 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MB

Ah, to sit outside. How divine, under a majestic oak tree, to meditate. But then— that sound, that sound and that sound. Working with what is in the available ambience of your now. Keywords: mindfulness, presence, concentration, nature, ambience, ease, acorn, dog, practice, fear, cyber security, business, bitter, quercus, pendunculate oak

M#252 HazyBright RoundySweet

September 17, 2020 21:43 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MB

Getting to know a bright light for upping energy while meditating. A lot like a hazy star. One astronomical unit— how sun centric we be... And then there is the sense of smell. An olafactory object of encounter and a concentration practice very wave-like. Keywords: Wildfire, weird weather, global warming, light meditation, headaches, smell, Concord grape, fruit, incursion, grape vines, sublime, candy, nature, jelly, preserve

M#251 Sound Object

September 10, 2020 22:54 - 10 minutes - 9.21 MB

Using sound as an object of meditation. Collecting your attention, the calming that comes about, is more about your HeartMind settling. Keywords: hen of the woods, focus, sound, attention, union, reality, ambient environment, traffic, voice, language

M#250 Walking Hen Woods

September 03, 2020 16:34 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MB

Went looking for some delicious mushrooms in the forest, didn't find any but I did find a brighter present in the rain. Noticing and practicing while limiting distraction. Practicing walking meditation designed to awaken not entertain. Keywords: Hen of the wood, mushroom, rain, walking, forest tradition, oak, simplicity, adjustments, white pine, change

M#249 Excited

August 28, 2020 16:50 - 9 minutes - 8.58 MB

How to practice with excitement. How to practice wisely when not excited. How to practice across all conditions. The posture taken depends on many things, but often a walking meditation can be a great "posture" with which to practice when excited. Keywords: Daily Meditation, simple, body, path, conditions, auctioneer, chill

M#248 When Weary

August 20, 2020 13:00 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MB

Standing meditation is the way to practice when certain conditions are present. Its not all about sitting this practice, this regular practice of meditation. Keywords: Standing, Body, Gaze, sway, energy, awakening, appropriate posture, sloth, torpor, tired, spent

M#247 Quite Quiet

August 09, 2020 19:49 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MB

A practice where the guidance is mostly before the sit. So in this episode a whole lotta "silence" is recorded as we practice. This is a closer simulation to what you should be working towards daily — practicing without recordings of any sort. Really get to know the heartmind, the machinations of your being that occur, and see really see those movements. Awareness is bigger than mind... keywords: practicing, self, others, insight, pandemic, tinnitus, sitting, meditation, prompts, breath, z...

M#246 Intensity and Ease

July 08, 2020 22:54 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MB

We practice everyday, gradually, getting steadier with what is, mindful of the body, able to see the patterns of mind, of action, steady with even subtle, even strong triggers or events. Equanimity becomes a known. Keywords: Eight Fold Path, mindfulness, rabbit, bunny, corona, covid, anger, sadness, reality, control, knowing, breath awareness, space, time, options, No!, prat fall

M#245 Pandemic Not Nothing Practice

June 01, 2020 22:54 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MB

This idea of emptying your mind and not doing anything is mostly a misunderstanding of what meditation is pointed towards. Practice and know. A whole lotta breath awareness as an object and focus is practiced and a whole lotta pandemic context brought in and befriended. Checkout www.ssimc.org for online classes that may be available amidst the pandemic Keywords: breath, breathe, ease, relaxation, mind, isolation, ideal, concepts, mindfulness, insight, sati, buddha,

M#244 Pandemic Practice

April 30, 2020 23:12 - 18 minutes - 21.1 MB

Pandemic Practice on forest's edge location. Sound rich. Mindfulness. From despair to natural relaxation. Keywords: Stupidly, opening up, contained, COVID, ssimc, stay-at-home, ease, Spring, antibody, string of time, zoomed, sight, sound

M#243 Passing Time

April 02, 2020 22:59 - 22 minutes - 20.7 MB

A bit of a raw field recording, sheltering-in-place and all that and a body and a flow of sound. Stay at home. Stir-crazy. Keywords: raw, virus, pandemic, reality, soundfield, soundrich, wind, rain, worldwide, ease, presence, social distancing, hunker down the link: www.patreon.com/mindfuling

M#242 Sounds of Fire

February 29, 2020 23:55 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MB

Awareness of aspects of fire is a practice. It can be a practice that focuses on just the sounds of fire. There are lots of different sounds of fire. Listen. Practice. Wakeup. Hey, announcing that I now, pretty much have a Patreon page. What is Patreon? Its a platform through which I can share a whole lot more of the dhamma in different forms if you are interested. Click here to go there! Keywords: meditation, mindfulness, awareness, fire, elemental, burn, waveform, change, carbon, praty...

M#241 Happy New Decade

January 31, 2020 21:09 - 20 minutes - 19 MB

Conceptually simple, practically not so simple. Mindfulness of breath, of body. Its not one and done. Intention and practicing. Remembering and reminding. Cultivating wakefulness. Contact. You being you. Keywords: Body, mind, heart, lunar new year, awake, meditation, practice, relaxation, seeing, buddha, sensation, ssmc

M#240 A Very Metta Mindfulness (fear is over)

December 30, 2019 17:23 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MB

Mindfulness meditation by way of breath and sound and oh, what sounds you will hear! Thanks John and Yoko! Merry New Year. Mandolin, this is the way, I have spoken, Mandalorian, Lennon, Ono, breath awareness, vipassana, insight, synphonia, Metta, Goodwill, Lovingkindness, clarity, ssimc, buddha

M#239 The Point

November 15, 2019 16:57 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MB

Practice, guided for letting go and practicing, practicing beyond the limits of sound, and mantra. TM. Nick Cave. Into My Arms. Ghosteen. Greed. Fear. Delusion. Peace. Connection. Beatles. Release the Bats. Birthday Party. The Bad Seeds. Evolution. Root poisons. The Way. Insight. Buddha. 

M#238 Gulp!

October 15, 2019 20:20 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MB

Statues and trappings associated with religion can really and does really impede individuals from learning and practicing meditation. For some the trappings are a delightful trapping that attracts them to such a degree that they think the statues and writing and incense are the practice. Just practice. Focusing on the felt sense of the body is a great cleanser of all those thoughts. Turn off the podcasts and practice, most of the time. Gulp! Keywords: Religious Gulp, mindfulness, sensation...

M#237 Deep Real

September 15, 2019 19:38 - 16 minutes - 15 MB

Some guided sound field encouragement. Body can fail you now. Deep fake. What is real. What is practice. Frosting and pie.    Keywords: Mindfulness, meditation, body, foundation, contact, sensation, robot, deep fake, ai, hemisphere

M#236 Not Real

August 09, 2019 19:29 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MB

How to practice mindfulness meditation with guidance amidst the distortion of life. How to understand what it is you are not getting when you practice via podcast. Noise. Cancelation. Relief. Mind. Play! Here is a link to the to be staged "Play" from the Mindfuling... DIY book.   Keywords: Body, Concentration, Serenity, Papanca, Discontent, Happiness, Barnstable Comedy Club, Thespians, Mindfulness, 

M#235 Not Dead

June 08, 2019 14:23 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MB

Practice a bit. Stay with it, let go of the habit of trying' to figure it out whilst practicing. I know, it is so nice to figure stuff out but, but that is not what you are doing. Its what you are doing most of your non present time! Stand, sit, practice. RIP Grumpy, clearly not dead... Keywords: meme, tardar sauce, cat, meditation, foundational, stand, dhammapada, sati, appamada, contact, nibbana, awake, silence, concentration, samadhi, happiness, grumpy cat, pain, suffering, posture

M#234 Lullaby Not

May 08, 2019 17:09 - 19 minutes - 18 MB

Not just relaxing and zoning out. Not just 10% happier. Active concentrated awareness that is responsive, even when the doggo makes it presence felt. Respond.  Keywords: awareness, compassion, mindfulness, cake, icing, ache, suffering, relaxation, patting, need, reality, book, requirements, canine