Mindfuling

M#233 Foolin'

April 01, 2019 20:40 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MB

Conditions and context matters to discerning accurately. It ain’t as simple as speaking objectively truthfully no matter what. Moment to moment, how do you practice, how do you keep sharp and relaxed and relaxed and... Keywords: April fools, change, suffering, discontent, practice, fun, meditation, mindfulness, skillful, speech, culture, spring

M#232 Cycles

February 26, 2019 19:31 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MB

Practice daily, don’t count on another or a special time or mood. Practice, get to know the present. Simple but not easy to maintain so practice. Practice. And practice. Keywords: Mindfulness, meditation, awareness, awake, daily, story, vortex, busy, excuses, extra, hibernation, torpor, sleep, awake

M#231 Ahktic Vortex

January 31, 2019 23:10 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MB

Practicing with what you got and letting go and placing awareness in your consciousness. What is really going on. Dropping the story overlay. The weather is happening — so use it. Practicing awareness. Keywords: Sensation, first foundation, cool, tingle, pressure, safe, core, peace, daily, really, Marvin Gaye

M#230 Ch-Ch-Changes

January 11, 2019 01:54 - 1 hour - 63.9 MB

Excerpt from a sitting, guided, and a long talk on Change, TS Eliot, Bowie, discontent, but mostly that olde reliable change. Keywords: eightfold path, discontent, meditation, mindfulness, concentration, intent, memory, story, ego, timeless, New Years, breath, dhammapada, bhikkhu Thanissaro, Buddha, distillation, path, four noble truths

M#229 Happy New Moment

December 31, 2018 19:59 - 7 minutes - 6.79 MB

Moment-to-Moment awareness. Practice, practice, practice. And what is this exactly? The complete Mindfuling DIY 7" is here with intro and outro and a bit more! Happy New Year Moment! Keywords: Meditation, Mindfuling DIY, vinyl source, pointing words, Yoda, backwards, present, feta cheese, this is it, opinion, think, watermelon, sensations, now, mindfulness, cry, emotion, play, papanca, static, click, warmth, whatever, kind, empathic, balance

M#228 Oh! Joy Is Now

December 21, 2018 02:09 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MB

A simple practice is rich and Joy is all around, dude. Really, no belief required — well maybe enough to get you practicing and seeing for yourself. Please don’t confuse the frequency of the Mindfuling podcast release dates with how frequently you should be practicing mindful meditation. Daily is the prescription! Keywords: Joy, Abundance, Present, Body, First foundation, Meditation center, holidays, others, community, balance, absence, practice

M#227 Platitude Gratitude

November 23, 2018 22:00 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MB

World’s Greatest Podcast Listener! You are, really. I mean it but of course this is nothing more than a platitude! I don’t really know you — do I? So, what’s the difference between platitudes and gratitudes? Keywords: Thanksgiving, unicorns, crystal, clear, breath, mindfulness, awareness, body scan, transitions, sound, awareness, cold, noticing, waking up

M#226 Brittle Honey

November 08, 2018 23:54 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MB

Concentration is not an option, it is required to see beyond the usual ruts and grooves. The Eight Fold Path, Wise View, Wise Intention, Wise Speech, Wise Action, Wise Livelihood, Wise Effort, Wise Mindfulness, Wise Concentration. It’s a practice, this full path. Keywords: Buddha, Insight, contact, frozen, supple, ease, awareness, problem, dramatize, kindly

M#225 See What You Can See

October 26, 2018 17:06 - 17 minutes - 16 MB

The sight door can be your focus of attention, your training object for the Mind. Simple, relaxed, and not a tour. Subtle or gross. At ease with the natural world, a play of light. Light is seeing but that doesn’t mean if your eyes are closed you can’t use the sight door.... Keywords: Sight, seeing, meditation, mindfulness, leaves of grass, fall, concentration, upright, practice, repetition, foolin, fools, marks of existence, discontent

M#224 Not Complicated

October 07, 2018 16:34 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MB

We have a lot a practice complicating things. Practice simply. Not so easy, but worth the effort. Get to know for yourself. Guided meditation. Object is so important.... Keywords: Mindfulness, sitting, meditation, retreat, pace, body sensations, aware of thought, quiet, chair, cushion, activity

M#223 Not A Part

September 20, 2018 12:40 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MB

The whole of the practice is with others, the good on the Path, those not so on the Path... Meditation is not what you think it is, really, nor is it what you alone do. The good, the bad, and vast space between these concepts. Keywords: mindfulness, ireland, monks, robes, incense, farms, nature, sense awareness, ssmic, western bias, community, sitting, steady, gardening, farming, air, breath

M#222 Sunday Beyond Delight

August 26, 2018 16:12 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MB

Excerpt from a Sunday class at SSIMC. A whole lotta practice going on. Keywords: Body, mindfulness, walking, talking, story, peace, pleasant, pain, adjustment, practice, retreat, pali, buddha, waiting, you are my sunshine, present, awareness, retreat, daily

M#221 Temperatures

August 06, 2018 18:21 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MB

Mindfuling of body and you have many options, breath the unparalleled option but you may find the conditions when some other part of the body, some other focus can be cooling. Keywords: Meditation, Walking, Sitting, Lying, concentration, global warming, ease, simple, relaxation, seeing, opinion, silence, awake, heatwave

M#220 Standing Bay

July 21, 2018 16:34 - 5 minutes - 4.84 MB

Standing, meditating in nature, on a bay of the Atlantic. Tide lapping at the marsh edge. You don't need a Bay to stand and practice meditation but you do need a place in nature where the sharks will not interrupt. Sound field is really alive so use it! Focus, concentrate. Stand in a relaxed but awake manner. Eyes open or closed. Steady and awake is your body, your vessel. Even a short practice such as this can deepen your sense of well being, especially when supported by other, daily longer...

M#219 Whydah? Who? Where?

July 01, 2018 15:11 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MB

Practicing on vacation? The key is intention and then doing and coming back especially when overwhelmed, amazed, dumbfounded. Back to reality and presence happens. Who are you? Keywords: Whydah, Pirates, Gold, Silver, Treasure, Cape Cod, Museum, Slave ship, technology, buried, Hollywood, barry Clifford, breath, feet, shape of water, monsters, greed, story, great horned owl, sound meditation, six senses, wisdom, practice, expectation

M#218 kNOw

June 18, 2018 18:46 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MB

Be with the contact you are making with the bodily sensations. Dozens if not hundreds of time. And then listening without adding when there is sound in your field of experience. No need to go searching, it happens. You however are training, repeating, this activity of developing present moment awareness. Keywords: sensations, first foundation, mindfulness, emotion, expectation relief, change, body, sound, alive, listen, joyce, ulysses, james

M#217 Net View

June 08, 2018 14:10 - 19 minutes - 18 MB

Posture of literal gaze and seeing. A veil of presence even with breath awareness as the primary concentration object. Ease and awareness not a trance nor fugue. Keywords: seeing, mind, awareness, consciousness, posture, drishti, meditation, blueberry, birds, wall, rest

M#216 Papanca Expresso

May 31, 2018 17:23 - 7 minutes - 7 MB

Quickly one can come back to the present. With longer practice over time this coming back is more powerful. You are tuned to awake. Keywords: niche, present, awareness, mindfulness, Moog, collage, audio rich, body awareness, first foundation, expression, espresso

M#215 Rocket! No Waiting

May 21, 2018 17:23 - 12 minutes - 11 MB

In the present the waiting disappears. Sitting with some suggestions and bit of a timeless space aged story. Keywords: Mindfulness, beach, antares, rocket ship, plume, orbit, sensation, body, be, sensations, community, intrusion, sound, sitting, change, wise view, gravity

M#214 Mother Relaxing

May 13, 2018 18:34 - 9 minutes - 9.05 MB

Relaxing with mothers and memory and the present. Giving the mind a focus, that is relaxing, repetition required! One time will not do! It's simple—that's why it is relaxing— but not easy... Keywords: Tulips, Mother's Day, meditation, insight, meditation, sound, training, approaching and helping, nature, warm, mind, sunflowers, opening, roots, seeds, establish, practice, training, connection, silence, illumination, woke

M#213 Pothole Dhamma

May 03, 2018 22:56 - 1 hour - 70.6 MB

Guided meditation, sitting and walking and listening. Divine Homes not Divine Potholes. Another way to get to know inside for yourself and ultimately others. Keywords: insight, meditation, mindfulness, walking, driving, dukkha, discontent, freedom, sounds

M#212 Standing Forest Rain

April 27, 2018 21:43 - 9 minutes - 9.06 MB

At the edge of a forest, in the rain, silky rain. Birds and ambient hum of distant automobile traffic. Semi-rural. With the changing sound field, a plane overhead—drop that story—drop the comparison with the crowing, back to the changing present. Keywords: mindfulness, phenomena, Forest tradition, body contact, earth, standing, hum

M#211 Virtual SnowGlobe

April 13, 2018 23:59 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MB

Guided sense door focus transitioning into an excerpt from a topic related to the realtime versioning of reality that we each call experience and get all personal about... Keywords: Mindfulness, meditation, dharma, ssimc, insight, mind, consciousness, virtual reality, the all, opinion, attachment, memory, New Yorker, virtual embodiment, Metzinger, patterns, stillness, emptiness, Joshua Rothman Here is a link to the article referenced: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/02/...

M#210 Reality SnowGlobe

April 06, 2018 19:43 - 12 minutes - 11.9 MB

Practicing in the snow, on a globe. Reality is always available. Concentration is optional but the more you practice the more likely presence in many different atmospheres. Keywords: Mindfulness, Meditation, Spring, Conditions, Walking and Talking, Sounds of Silence, Moog, Reality, Breath, Breathe, Contact

M#209 Wow! Silence?

March 26, 2018 19:33 - 30 minutes - 28 MB

Guided meditation, excerpt from a class at South Shore Insight. Simple yet, not easy to stay with... Being with and seeing clearly, crystal. Directing the mind, the heart, the body yet, yet, not attaching. Keywords: emma, march for our lives, sit for your life, insight, peace, training, gun control, youth, buddha, wise view, hum, eight fold path, common sense, uncommon training, ease

M#208 Interesting Things

March 19, 2018 00:07 - 17 minutes - 16 MB

Mindfulness is in wait, in the checkout line at super markets. It it really? Digestible. Natural. Easy. Well there are many layers to the what this word mindfulness, translated from the Pali word Sati, be pointing at. Gotta do it to really know it. Practice in silence, with others to make all the other fast moving world versions work... Keywords: meditation, practice, mindfulness, ssimc, south shore insight, power loss, connection, community, delusion, layers, awkward, ideas, concepts, fou...

M#207 Vacillating Present

March 10, 2018 00:07 - 12 minutes - 11 MB

Practice getting to know where your awareness is tending. Often, without practice, lost in the future or past or spacey vacillation, a wavering? Maybe steady? What is the reality of your present? A steady posture crucial for getting to know this subtle awareness. Keywords: Mindfulness, foundations, la-de-da, present, confusion, mindfuling, sitting, vipassana, retreat, community, notice

M#206 Mindfuling Minutes

March 01, 2018 19:22 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MB

Guided meditation into a demo for a highly produced segment I'm shipping off to WFMU for consideration. Maybe a weekly three minute thing like the included could work in the wilds of a non-commercial morning show known as Wake and Bake? keywords: cake, breath awareness, mindfulness, insight, practice, audio rich, spring, bells, clay pigeon, new jersey, city, dead air,drive time

M#205 Platypus Don't Fall

February 16, 2018 23:54 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MB

Concentration, Mindfulness, Equanimity — the Divine Homes, Intention and Walking. A lot of talk and quite a bit of meditation of three sorts: Mindfulness, Divine Homes, Walking practice— oh and Falling practice. From a South Shore Insight on a Monday last January in the season of invisible ice and reaction and falling. Keywords: Metta, Compassion, Sympathetic Joy, Equanimity, mindfulness, walking, ego, learning to listen, eight fold path,

M#204 Origami Mindfulness

February 05, 2018 20:33 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MB

Guided meditation and talk on the different folds of the mindfulness practice. Keywords: metaphor, simile, body awareness, breath, posture, mind, consciousness, crease, fold, ease, relax, seeing, turbulence, concentration, returning, itch, pain, sense

M#203 Not Appreciated

January 27, 2018 18:23 - 10 minutes - 9.5 MB

Mindfuling is appreciating each moment, in particular ways. A training, a practice. Remembering can be a practice too, and remembering with a soundtrack about the soundtrack! Well that can get complicated, you can get lost in music. Oblivion? Hmmm a little bit of that will happen but you don't have to get lost for long. Just come back. RIP, now. Keywords: The Fall, Mark E. Smith, Mindfulness, Sound, Memory, Thinking, Slang King, Language, Hard Life, Punk, Low-Fi, Analog,

M#202 Oh Deer!

January 17, 2018 21:04 - 13 minutes - 11.9 MB

Awake and alert. Not red alert. Not the world is ending. Relaxed and practiced. Simple and awake. Breath is part of it. Keywords: Guided Meditation, White Tail Deer, Forest, Herd, Group, Grazing, Ease

M#201 Ideals

January 07, 2018 18:23 - 11 minutes - 10.5 MB

Conditions can be painful, so change them but they’re not ideal either — just sound, certainly not painful so suffering is truly just a option. But a more better option is Just Sound, no ideals, just sound. Awesome, actually soothing sound. Awake not asleep. Kneeling can be a wise posture at times. Upright, easy breathing, another way to practice and appropriate at times, like in reverence to the stationary robot of the kitchen. Keywords: Sonic, Sense door, mindfulness, concentration...

M#200 Too Oh! Oh! Lang Syne

January 01, 2018 04:11 - 2 minutes - 2.55 MB

New Year's Memory Mash Up with the Papanca Synphonia. Not easy listening! Memory is active and triggered and trainable. Mindfuling of sound, just listen and notice when the mind starts doing more than just listening. Noise? New Ears? Keywords: Kindness, For Old Times, Memory, Mindfulness, Distortion, Clear listening, Filter, the cocktail effect, silence “For auld lang syne, my jo, for auld lang syne, we'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet, for auld lang syne.”

M#199 Speech as Practice

December 25, 2017 11:54 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MB

Guided meditation and talk from Mindful Monday at South Shore Insight December 4, 2017. Wise Speech, Skillful Speech, and practicing with the part of the mind that precedes all thought. Getting to know the parameters, getting to know pausing, remembering and seeing and transforming your big practice and little practice. Keywords: Eight Fold path, skillful view, skillful intention, skillful speech, wise men, Ho Ho Ho, Oh no!, santa claus, figurin', ssimc, insight, transformation, dhamma, Bo...

M#198 Light Reflection

December 21, 2017 21:32 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MB

As the solstice light fades we reflect on the light. The actual light, light as a subtle or not so subtle object of concentration. Keywords: meditation, mindfulness, forest, woods, sunset, northeast, present, without doubt, ease,

M#197 You Already Know

December 12, 2017 19:34 - 7 minutes - 7.28 MB

Guided Meditation. Real Simple. Real Not Easy. Alive. Breathing. Strangers no more. You can't beat nature. Your home with a tree. Keywords: Insight, Vipassana, Breath Awareness, Delusion, Fear, Boredom, Disbelief, Mind, Training, Mindfulness, Bell, Reading, Poetry, Free, Form, Freedom, Now, Empty,

M#196 You Will Be Ill

December 02, 2017 22:36 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MB

We get sick, the body and mind-heart in a mode of repair, different areas to direct awareness in the body. Very easy in some ways to identify an object of discontent. Turn to it, see it change, maybe transform. Or move to the neutral... Keywords: sick, remembrances, posture, awareness, mindfulness, insight, sit

M#195 The Time is 2560

November 27, 2017 00:17 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MB

Guided meditation and reflection on making time and remembering Grateful, Thankful. A little every day. Today. Keywords: Meditation, Mind, Consciousness, Daily practice, Theravada, simple, thanksgiving, food, clothes, shelter, the year 2560, Buddha, Breath Awareness, Mindful of the Body

M#194 Rembrances of Halloween

November 10, 2017 23:54 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MB

Halloween in the West is a candy festival but there is a profoundly human reflection plainly available right below the sugar coating surface of what the holiday can remind us of and the five remembrances of the so called Buddhist world can further illuminate what the confectioners glaze may be obscuring. Gonna get sick, gonna age, gonna die, everything dissolves and separates and oh ya, what you do is what you own. Keywords: guided meditation, ssimc, get candy get candy, boo, ghosts, remem...

M#193 Bamboo Rain

October 26, 2017 20:20 - 10 minutes - 10 MB

Listening with awareness and wakefulness. Not falling asleep. Arranging the body for this practice. Many layers but just listen to all. Sort of like a super 4'33" but without the pauses. Bamboo Rain and of course other incidental sounds on recording and in your present time of listening. Trees sing. Keywords: awareness, focus, sound, changing, jet airliner, drain, truck, rain, soothing, calm, john cage

M#192 Bird of Peace

October 13, 2017 23:01 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MB

Talk and practice in the neighborhood of the Divine Homes. Keywords: Metta, Lovingkindness, Compassion, Big Dig, The Bird, the word, beep, horn, speed, equanimity, wise thinking, phrase, may all beings be safe, opinions, ssimc, south shore insight meditatiion center, signs, Roland Barthes, felt sense, connected actions

M#191 Mindfuling Not Quick Fix

October 07, 2017 16:34 - 3 minutes - 3.48 MB

It takes time, over many moons, to develop mindfulness so that it has an impact on oneself and others. You don't have a minute, in the day? How can that add up? Try it out, for real, every day for a month or so and see what change develops... Keywords: Meditation, body awareness, connection, moog, repeat, practice, pop song, pop pill,fall, change is real, mindfulness, insight, habit, test

M#190 Amidst A Forest

September 28, 2017 19:22 - 9 minutes - 9.05 MB

On location guided meditation. Practicing with the sounds in a small forest. Keywords: Mindfulness, Simple, Awareness, Changing, No Noise, Trees, Wind, Walking, Presence, Calm, Soothing, Forest Tradition, Silence, No problems, No noise,

M#189 Under A Tree

September 15, 2017 23:26 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MB

On location under a venerable 100plus year old Oak. Acorns dropping. Dogs cavorting and tasting. Sitting under these conditions. Powerful. Simple. Cross legged, make sure upright and balanced — comfortable. Don't sit with the knees afloat, sit supported on the ground at the base of tree. Keywords: Guided Meditation, Mindfulness, Bark, Oak, Woof, Howl, Squirrel, Sun, Kusa, Posture, Knees, Awake, Aware, Forest Tradition, Buddha, pain, uncomfortable, comfortable, awakening

M#188 Delusion Special FX & True Escape

August 29, 2017 22:54 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MB

Guided Meditation and a long talk excerpt concerning mindfulness meditation and its place in the big path that actually leads to a true escape from discontent and special effects, as amazing as they may be and appear and sound like Keywords: greed, fear and delusion, poison, remedy of the path, great antidote, technology, reality, distraction, privilege, ascetic, middle way, monastic view, lay view, ssimc, south shore insight, echo, wet and dry, evidence, reproducible, science, knowing, c...

M#187 Brain Freeze

August 21, 2017 11:07 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MB

Mindfulness, mindfuling, of the Body in a simple, sensation, based way is very delicious and cooling. Keywords: Ice Cream, Headache, Cryogenics, Delusion, Hope, Fear, Greed, meditation, popsicle, daily, weekly, strong, focus, layered, no self, connection

M#186 The Arc is a Wave

August 14, 2017 19:33 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MB

Practicing mindfulness and presence with qualities of being that are often translated as Goodwill or LovingKindness, Compassion or Helping Care, Sympathetic Joy or connecting with the Joy of others, Equanimity or Peace with Changing Reality. Divine Homes, Abodes. Waves are made of arcs. Keywords: Mindfulness, meditation, Buddha, MLK, Theodore Parker, Abolition, Protest, Hate, Wisdom, tone, south shore insight, Charlottesville, Virginia, Slavery, Freedom,

M#185 Robot Not

July 28, 2017 15:11 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MB

Mindful of the body. Real practice. Scaleable. Simple but not easy. You have a body.

M#184 Cooler

July 20, 2017 19:45 - 12 minutes - 11 MB

Mindfulness of the humid body. Working with difficult physical temperatures and environments. Awareness helps a lot. Keywords: Meditation, Mindfulness, Sitting, relative humidity, nirvana, the great cooling

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