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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#121 .:. MAW: Skellig Stepping

September 17, 2016 13:09 - 38 minutes - 34.8 MB

Mindfuling at Weekend (MAW), bringing together a way to step on spirituality, free of blind faith... keywords: Mindfulness, insight, vipassana, bill, skellig michael, serial, radio, dhamma, stone steps, ireland, star wars, jedi, luke, father, vader, dark side, light side, far side, podcasts as russian nesting dolls, wake up, zen, heart sutra, punk rock mountain in the ocean

M#119 11th Excerpt

September 12, 2016 13:10 - 28 minutes - 26 MB

The practice within the context of an 11th Step focus, developing a spiritual practice, is developing a deep mindfulness practice. Keywords: eight fold path, 11th step, sobriety, being with discontent, separating pain from suffering, standing meditation, walking meditation, ssimc.org, south shore insight, massachusetts, bill, aa, na, oea, sitting meditation, breath awareness, anapanasati 

M#118 MAW: Tooth Fury

September 10, 2016 13:09 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MB

Mindfuling at Weekend touches a nerve and a heart and there is great reverberation.  Keywords: Heart Sutra, Mindfulness, Present Moment, Anticipation, Four Noble Truths, Aging, Sickness, Death, Comedy, Resonance, pain and suffering, succotash, cold nerve

M#116 Honorificabilitudinitatibus

September 07, 2016 17:32 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MB

Simple, one pointed breath awareness, of the sort that you can practice long or short, around the corner or all the way to neither perception nor non perception Keywords: jhana, serenity, ease, concentration, shakespeare, meditation, mindfulness, sense door awareness, seasonal awareness, four seasons, four materials, boston common, theater, 

M#115 .:. MAW: Infinite Nature

September 03, 2016 13:09 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MB

MAW is Mindfuling at Weekend. The Faire, or is that Fair Pumpkins and nature and beyond nature? Is that even possible in the present? Keywords: Marshfield Fair, Sound Meditation, serial radio, theater, pigs, vietnamese, kids, rides, motocross, horses, chickens, dinosaurs, mindfulness of other beings bodies, freak out, making hay, owls, great horned, ma

M#113 Hootingly Present

August 29, 2016 15:33 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MB

Working with Sound and the First and Second Foundations of mindfulness in a guided fashion. Keywords: Great Horned Owl, Hoot, Don't Pollute, Four Foundations of Mindfulness, field recording, South Shore Massachesetts, crickets

M#112 .:. MAW: No Waiting

August 27, 2016 13:09 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MB

Mindfuling at Weekend (MAW) Practicing and getting simple when we realize we have complicated things, a bit. And Hot Zombies regurgitates Godoh! Keywords: Mindfulness, body, mind, heart, waiting for Godot, Doh!, Bodhichita, Heart-Mind, guided meditation, Beckett, Absurdist, lightness of being, reality

M#110 Backing Up

August 22, 2016 14:45 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MB

Guided Meditation with a wide awareness or a narrower body meditation. There are many ways to concentrate. Keywords: Alarming, concentration, body awareness, first foundation of mindfulness, shikantaza, environmental, no problem, really, wise view, intention, peace, kindness, summer, noise, sound, meditate, wise intention, wise attention, breath, breath

M#109 MAW: Into It

August 20, 2016 14:10 - 1 hour - 61.7 MB

MAW: Mindfuling at Weekend. A big gob of episode. Stay Cool! Keywords: Mindful of the Body, guided sit, meditation, sati, sound awareness, first foundation, doors and bells, radiohead, fake plastic trees, honda crx, route 128, going out, nibbana, zero time, dharma talk, eight fold path, dukkha

M#107 Finding Bigfoot

August 17, 2016 14:44 - 10 minutes - 9.44 MB

Guided seated in a chair meditation, focusing on the sensations at the base of the feet.  Keywords: Mindfulness of body, concentration, discovery, simple, busy mind, sound awareness, full body speaker, knees, relaxation, waist, alert and relaxed

M#106 All Sprockets Talk

August 15, 2016 14:11 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MB

The Path, or the full teaching of the Buddha, ain't just a simple notion of mindfulness... Keywords:view, intention, speech, action, occupation, effort, mindfulness, concentration, ssimc, south shore insight, mindful monday

M#105 .:. MAW: Sadhu You

August 13, 2016 13:09 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MB

Mindfuling at Weekend (MAW). The week's podcasts all stitched together. TKV Desikachar passes and we practice and find some time to play with Hot Zombies. Keywords: Yoga, Yogi, Yogini, Chennai, Krishnamacharia, root, mindfulness, meditation, asana, practice, breath control, breath awareness, theater, dhamma, samadhi

M#103 Sri TKV Desikachar, Great Yogi

August 10, 2016 13:10 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MB

Sri Desikachar passed on August 8. Son of  T. Krishnamacharya, source of most of the yoga that the world knows today, Desikachar, age 78, was an exceptional yoga teacher and builder of the still active Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (KYM) Chennai India. He taught J. Krishnamurti in the 1960's and was based in Chennai India, where KYM stands today. Keywords:  patanjali, eight fold path, eight limbs of yoga, heart of yoga, mindfulness, samadhi, union, sedentary, individually appropriate asana...

M#102 Mindful Monday Guided Sit

August 08, 2016 15:22 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MB

A longer form, for this podcast, guided sit recorded at South Shore Insight. On the first Monday of the month we have a sit and a Dhamma talk of longer form at SSIMC. In the Summer and Deep winter, myself or Madeline Klyne offers a talk. On other first Mondays of the month it is offered by guest teachers. SSIMC is located in Hanover, Massachusetts, USA. Keywords: Mindful, Vipassana, sati, quieting, noise, body, breath, concentration, simplify, pattern disruption, new groove, scan, ease and...

M#101 .:. MAW: Mindfuling Is Way Out

August 06, 2016 13:10 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MB

Mindfuling at Weekend is The MAW, and we are getting basic, like laying down the 101, for you; but still, you gotta do it, mindfuling. Keywords: Guided Meditation, serial radio theater, eno, cicada, get smart, agent secret, dead pan, cold war, nuclear idiocy, awakening, buddha, cool aid, recipe versus actually eating of the cookie, vipassana, concentration, mindful, flintstones

M#099 BeGet

August 03, 2016 15:11 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MB

Body meditation is simple. You don't want to Get It! You can do it! Everyday this is possible and developing. Keywords: Mindfulness of Body, First Foundaion, Get Smart, Agent 99, Maxwell Smart, Cold War, Comedic Foil, Cold War, Busy Mind.

M#098 Listening Cicada Meditation 4'33"

August 01, 2016 14:10 - 8 minutes - 7.68 MB

A Sound Meditation. A field recording with wind, cicada, twin prop airplane, white pine, sassafras, sweet pepper — the sounds and wash of windy green leaves — and your mind. Keywords: Mindfulness, awareness, stilling the mind, concentrating on sound, practice, eight fold path, mindful meditation, meditating, short meditation, nature sounds, sounds of nature, beautiful mind, nature recording, environmental sounds, nature environment

M#097 .:. MAW: Permutations

July 30, 2016 14:10 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MB

Mindfuling at Weekend (MAW) splashes down. Summertime. Keywords: Mindfulness, Dhamma, Caffeine, Summertime Blues, Dukkha, SSIMC, yoda, eddie cochran, meditation, vipassana, insight, south shore insight, Hanover, Massachusetts, Hot Zombies Cool Buddhas, grok, concentration, serenity, L-theanine, blues, summertime blues, summer, time

M#095 Standing Meditation

July 27, 2016 14:10 - 18 minutes - 16.5 MB

Standing mindfully is a great practice integral to  rounding-out your practice. Toning and balancing and deeply human. It may seem especially weird at first but test it out, try it out over time, repeatedly, practice and see for ye self!    Keywords: Guided meditation, yogi, yogini, upright, body awareness, concentration, base of the feet, yoga, asana, four postures.

M#094 Serenity of Concentration

July 25, 2016 16:12 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MB

Concentration practice, whatever the degree or depth or flavor, is a required component of mindful meditation practice when hitting all 8 folds. In the West, in part because of translation from the Pali and our inherent bias towards the words "concentration" and "serenity" there can be a lot of confusion regarding the relationship of the practice of serenity and concentration. In a wise concentrated state great equanimity is revealed. Have a cup o' tea (green is best…) or if you are not too ...

M#093 .:. MAW: BabyBabyBaby

July 23, 2016 14:33 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MB

Mindfuling at Weekend: MAW. Hot and humid. Practice still. Still, practice. Keywords: Guided meditation, mindfulness, body, feeling tones, thoughts, phenomena, rocket usa, suicide, vega, rev, john cage, freedom, choice beyond environmental conditions, hindrances, zazen, simplify, analog, electronic, happiness, awareness, Alan Vega remembrance

M#091 Cool 4'33"

July 20, 2016 16:21 - 21 minutes - 19.2 MB

Using audio as an object of meditation, remembering and seeing. Developing a connection between the cooling of a mindful meditation practice and moving beyond stark reality. Keywords: Alan Vega, Martin Rev, Suicide, audio, punk, elecronic, analog, rockabilly, elvis, velvet underground, noncommerial, rocket usa, ghost rider, guided meditation, practice, simple, repetition, warmth and persistence, art, confrontation, cbgb, rat, musician, music, singer, duo, duet, band

M#090 Greatest Wealth

July 18, 2016 16:48 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Guided meditation. Another run at Breath Awareness with a remembrance and testament to how to get to know peace. Keywords: Ennis, Breath Awareness, Irish, Clare, Object, Heart, Body, Mind, Mindfulness, Equanimity, trad, ireland, miltown malbay, uilleann, fiddle

M#089 .:. MAW: Heraclitus

July 16, 2016 13:09 - 33 minutes - 31 MB

The difference between hearing and knowing a phrase like "You can't step in the same river, stream or ocean twice" isn't about understanding, it is about being finely awake to see at a depth beyond words or ocean. The digital delusion of perfect repetition is seductive and pervasive.  Keywords: Meditation, Guided, Audio, repeatable, Greek Philosophy, take me to the river, h2o, summer time blues, graphite, apis, bee, buzz, moxie, opulent, cluck, honey

M#087 Wild Turkey 4'33"

July 13, 2016 04:12 - 7 minutes - 6.44 MB

Audio Meditation inspired by Cage's 4'33". Listen and don't add, return to the breath when you get lost then be with the waves of sound. Then, do it again, enter the stream again. Keywords: Wild Mind, Sonic reducer, silence, John Cage, Audio Stream, Flowing Stream

M#086 Peace of Breath

July 11, 2016 16:12 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MB

Breath Awareness even when on the Summer Time schedule, beware of lovely trance states too, perhaps especially this season. The greatest wealth, the greatest peace is sometimes called contentment with what actually is, regardless of particulars. Peace is in the present. This doesn't been approval or acceptance of what is going on it means being genuinely present to what is going on. Keywords: Guided Meditation, breath awareness, sitting, shikantaza, anapanasati, mindfulness, right speech, ...

M#085 .:. MAW: UnCrazy

July 09, 2016 16:23 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MB

The MAW is a compilation of the week's podcast episodes, give or take... This episode is especially sound-rich and jam-packed with practice and zip. Headphones recommended. Keywords: Fireworks, Crazy, Meditaiton, Seeing and Hearing and Practicing, for real, zen, vipassana, tibet, equanimity, listening, tinnitus, buzz, peace

M#083 SpEEch

July 06, 2016 16:12 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MB

Wise speech supports your formal meditation. You can practice it anywhere, including your own mind. "Words known to be true, beneficial and endearing and agreeable to others, one has a sense of the proper time for speaking. Why? One has sympathy for living beings…. "In the instance of words known to be factual, true, beneficial but not endearing and disagreeable to others, one has sense of time for speaking" —Gotama  Keywords: Abhaya Sutta, Speech, Princely, SetUp, Eight Fold Path, Sil...

M#082 InterDependence

July 04, 2016 16:12 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MB

The 4th of July is Independence Day in the US. Fireworks are a staple element of many celebrations. The sound field of summer is explosive and calming crickets. How do you work and use sound as an object of meditation and awakening? Keywords: Listen, awaken, ssimc, fireworks, zinger, black cat, meditation, body, swans, rathskeller, south shore ma, field recording, night, lost and found, letting go, greed, fear, delusion, community, rounding out, eight fold path, insight, serenity Written...

M#081 .:. The MAW: Voila!

July 02, 2016 14:10 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MB

Mindfuling At Weekend. A compilation of the previous week's podcasts with a tad more or less. Keywords: Eight Fold Path, delusion, Voila, Wollah, the channel, boston, ssimc, super hero, deva, states of awareness, practice of meditation, mindfulness, mindfuling Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Mindfuling.org

M#079 Super Natural Deva Fantastical

June 29, 2016 16:12 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MB

Wowzer! Fantastic. Can't Get Enough. Happy? No. Oh. Try this, don't believe really try... Keywords: Realms of Discontent, shinny, happy, beings, Eight Fold Path, Jana, Mr. Greylock, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Universes, Balance, jhana Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Mindfuling.org

M#078 Body-Breath Guided Meditation

June 27, 2016 16:12 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MB

There are many ways to establish and arrive at a formal meditation. Here is an excerpt of a guided sit at South Shore Insight Meditation Center. Keywords: Body awareness, Breath awareness, arriving, finding your seat, moving when it is wise with continued, unbroken, awareness, meditate, meditating, guided formal meditation, teacher led meditation, breathing attention, awake, follow your breath, breathe Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Mindfuling.org

M#077 .:. The MAW: Brexiting the Bubble

June 25, 2016 15:11 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MB

MAW is Mindfuling at Weekend, a compilation of the previous week's podcasts with a little more and a little less. Here is a link to an article related to Attention Schematic Theory (AST). Keywords: Brexit, Bubble Theory, Attention Schema Theory, Mind, Awareness, Mindfulness, Serial Radio Dhamma, Drama, Breath, Buddha,  Zombie, UK, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Drones, Golf in the Kingdom Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Mindfuling.org

M#075 After Math

June 22, 2016 16:12 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MB

Present Moment awareness is not a calculating mind nor is it inured with reality. Insured is Dukkha too. Keywords: Open Awareness, shikantaza, vipassana, arithmatic, inure, simplify, buddha, Thoreau, sensitize, desensitize, dukkha, inure Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Mindfuling.org

M#074 Breath Affects Effects

June 20, 2016 16:12 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MB

Breath awareness was taught not only, and not firstly, by Gotama. It is a deep practice worthy of your life-long practice. Keywords: Buddhism, Eight Fold Path, eightfold path, Fractal, Solstice, Light, Jains, Profundo Impacto, buddhism, buddhist, buddha, mindfulness, dharma wheel Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Mindfuling.org

M#073 .:. The MAW: Conditioner

June 18, 2016 14:10 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MB

The MAW is Mindfuling at Weekend. The previous week's episodes with bit more and a bit less. Keywords: Practice, serenity, awareness, reality, insight, smile, vipassana, meditation, mindfulness, metta, self-compassion, divine homes, ssimc, orlando, repetition, buddhism, mindful, mindfulness, buddhist thought Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Mindfuling.org

M#071 Present Pulse

June 15, 2016 16:12 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MB

The tragic reality of the killings at the Orlando Florida gay club Pulse and a way to practice in the wake of the recent, often mediated past, into the present towards wisdom and compassion. Keywords: Orlando, Pulse, Divine Homes, Self-compassion, metta, goodwill,karuna, compassion, mudita, sympathetic joy, empathic joy, upekkha, equanimity, smile posture, appreciative, breath awareness,  * NOTE: The initial release of this episode was "empty". If you downloaded the empty file, depending...

M#070 Repeating

June 13, 2016 16:12 - 7 minutes - 7.12 MB

Many people can understand the process of developing a Mindfulness practice, but developing just the first foundation is not so easy to habituate. Keywords: Mindfulness, Meditation, First Foundation, Repetition, simple, breathe awareness, anapanasati, echo Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Mindfuling.org

M#069 .:. The MAW: Sati

June 11, 2016 12:08 - 58 minutes - 53.1 MB

The MAW is Mindfuling at Weekend, a compilation of the weeks podcasts with a little less and a little more. Keywords: Sati, Mindfulness, Packets, yogini, dukkha, buddha, serial radio theater, practice, dub science Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Mindfuling.org

M#067 The FOG

June 08, 2016 16:12 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MB

The Fuel Of Gossip, FOG. Just because there is energy and oomph to a story doesn't mean it is wise to engage, tell or perpetuate a version of a story. Unverified second hand information presented as truth is delusion and can be wrapped up a greed and fear. Gossip is a powerfully blinding toxin to the heart and mind, which has to include the body. Keywords: Gossip, gossiping, The FOG, Fuel Of Gossip, Horror, Wise Speech, eight fold path, sidhartha, gotama, buddha, rockwell, fine art, teleph...

M#066 Mindfuling Is Not What You Think

June 06, 2016 16:12 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB

Mindfulness is not what you think. Or, don't believe everything you think. Or, get over your self. Or, I Get confused by my thoughts and actually believe them to be truer than true. Ya, it is a rabbit hole if you stay thinking, reading, listening to others talk. Learn to practice being fully Mindful across the foundations and this all makes sense. It is clear beyond words. Keywords: MINWYT, mindfulness, meditation, four foundations, vipassana, clear seeing, turkey, bear, scare, stimulus ...

M#065 .:. The MAW: StArts

June 04, 2016 13:19 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MB

The MAW: StArts is a compilation of the previous week's Mindfuling podcasts. We added a bit of sonic detail and edited some stuff. PHHHHft! Keywords: Meditation, Beat Box, Summer time practice, summertime, insight, vipassana, Eight Limbs of Yoga, tin whistle, ambient, serial radio, dhamma, dharma, drama, all the news that's fit to spit, origami, tathagata, buddha, buddhism Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Mindfuling.org

M#063 Tathagata

June 01, 2016 16:12 - 13 minutes - 12.5 MB

When the Historical Buddha referred to himself, back in the day, 2500-ish years ago, he used the word Tathagata. What does that mean, indicate and precede? Keywords: Buddha, Awake, Mindfulness, Meditation, Wandering, Steps, Ganga, Fronting, Buddhism, India, Indian, Buddhism Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Mindfuling.org

M#062 Ultimate Bandwidth

May 30, 2016 16:12 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MB

Yes, practice alone and yes, practice with others — it don't get any LARGER or real than that. Keywords: Mindfulness, meditation, buddha, dhamma, sangha, geekery, realtime, Buddhism, meditate, meditating, sanga Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Mindfuling.org

M#061 .:. The MAW: Buzz Pattern

May 28, 2016 10:00 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MB

The MAW is a knitting together and edit of the previous week's podcasts. Keywords: Honey Bees, Pattern, Practice, Mindfulness, Zombies, Baseball, Yogi, Yogini, ritual, insight, meditation, Buddhism, Buddhist Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Mindfuling.org

M#059 Superstitious

May 25, 2016 16:12 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MB

Superstition as the not-so-helpful distraction to the practice at hand. Superstition as the helpful means to a hitting streak. Keywords: Metta, Goodwill, Practice, Red Sox, Jackie Bradley Jr., ritual, helpful habits, highly effective practitioners, mindfulness, awareness, concentration practice, baseball, slow, no time, jinx it, belief, habit, repetition, repeating, rituals, practicing, in the flow, freedom, lovingkindness, friendliness, fear, spirits, befriend, patterns, allies, may I be ...

M#058 Yogi Practice

May 23, 2016 16:00 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MB

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. The difference between theory and practice is real and profound. You can observe a lot by watching. Keywords: Yogi, Yogini, Yogi Berra, bera, beara, Practice of Meditation, Four Foundations, Silence, baseball, Redsox, Yankees, savant, mindfulness, mindful, minding, Buddha, Buddhist thought, meditation, meditating, meditate, look, looking, watch, theory, delusion, thinking vs. practicing Written, Recorde...

M#057 .:. The MAW: Dhamma Goth

May 21, 2016 10:00 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MB

Mindfuling at Weekend is The MAW. The previous weeks episodes edited and added to a bit. Keywords: MAW, Sound Meditation, Present, Mindfulness, Bird song, Sati, Gothic, radio, serial, theater, art decco, honey bees, mead, deadpan, audio story, goth Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org

M#055 Spring Outside .:. 4'33"

May 18, 2016 16:00 - 7 minutes - 6.68 MB

Using the recorded sound field with your personal live sound field, one that happens to be going on around you while listening — can you listen without adding? Practice and know freedom. No sound is a problem, it is just sound. Just awareness. Just mindfuling.... Keywords: Sound Meditation, Baltimore Oriole, Jays and Chickadees, Jets, bird, birdsong, singing birds, single engine prop planes, dog named Moxie, Moxy, woof, canine, barking, hearing, listening, Written, Recorded and Produced ...

M#054 Dhamma! That's A Hot Potato

May 16, 2016 15:57 - 19 minutes - 18 MB

Excerpt from the Awake and Connected retreat South Shore Insight offered in beauteous Cohasset, Massachusetts. Keywords: Eightfold Path, impulse and memory, body learning, meditation, retreat, india, Ireland, baked potato, beats, knowing, wisdom, Help! I can't breathe, choke, choking, Heimlich maneuver, childhood, memories, memory Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org