Mindfuling
238 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMindfulness 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#053 .:. The MAW: Easy Speak
May 14, 2016 10:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBThe MAW stitches together the previous week's episodes with some edits. Keywords: Mindfulness, Metta, Self Compassion, Tattoo, Serial Radio, Piercing, Right Speech, Letting Go and Knowing when to talk, phrases like seeds, non linear results, over the hump Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
M#051 Divine Homes, From Me To Thee
May 11, 2016 10:00 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBThe Divine Homes are Goodwill, Compassion, Empathetic Joy and Equanimity. States to be cultivated and practiced so that they are known and fully in exercise of the Eight Fold Path for proper balance. Here is an edited version of the practice from a class I gave at South Shore Insight. The edit accentuates the Self-Compassion and Universal trajectory of the path. Keywords: Meditation, Mindfulness, Wheel of Dharma, Dhamma, Insight and Freedom, seeds of wisdom, metta, karuna, mudita, upekkha,...
M#050 Mindfuling Is Not Snarky
May 09, 2016 16:00 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MBSnarky, Smart Aleckey, Wiseguy — all absent when actually practicing, when Mindfuling. Keywords: Mark Stewart and the Mafia, Minduling, I'm Fifty, Molly Shannon, Melting Away, Happiness, Cynicism, Old Crotchety, Meditation, Practice, Freedom, Happiness, Scientific Meathod gone to the Ego, The Waiting Room, fifty, 50th, fiftieth, birthday Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
M#049 .:. The MAW: Jet8 Threedom
May 08, 2016 15:37 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBOk, the Eight Fold Path and a Higher Reduction. But don't skimp. And don't forget. And use all strings. And lighten uP. Keywords: Dharma, Buddha, Eight Fold Path, Stratocaster, Walled in Mind, Color Shift, Serial radio drama, You Can Dance if you Want to, Tuned, Manchester Terrier, Mothra, Allergies, Tuning, Balance, Hoverboard, Jet Pack, Learning to Fly, Mindfulness, ssimc, Parachute, Pine Trees, Comic Color, Funny Pages, Podcast Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Emai...
M#047 JetPath3is8
May 04, 2016 10:00 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MBThe Eight Fold Path is often organized into three groups: Wisom, Ethics and Concentration. How is that arranged and what sort of view does it emphasize? Keywords: Three Fold Training, Wisdom, Ethics, Concentration, wobbly, stress tests, indicators, breath meditation, Buddha, Buddhist, Buddhism Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
M#046 JetPath8
May 02, 2016 16:17 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBWhere's my Jet Pack!? Well, it looks like it is getting closer to reality but then there is always something to be missing… Wait, where is my peace and satisfaction? What does it look like from up there? Keywords: Jet Pack, Hoverboard, Flyboard, Franky Zapata, mindfulness, eight fold path, vipassana, meditation, geek, pilot, helicopters are amazingly complicated and expensive, Clear Prop!, South Shore Insight, Map of the world, jet ski, France, aviation, guinness book, peace, view, intenti...
M#045 .:. The MAW: Purple Sound
April 30, 2016 15:42 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MBSound Meditation in a Purple Rain, it so happens. Relax and then open your cultivated awareness to the transient, passing nature of all phenomena, including sound. Notice. Freedom and Love. Dude, you're like purple! Keywords: Prince, Revolution, Purple, Rain, Meditation, Relaxation, Island Time, Party, 1999, genius, musical, everything fades, A Paisley Home Companion, the artist formerly known as Prince, David Bowie, pop music, time, physical body, presentation, gender bender, race bender,...
M#043 Spring Rain .:. 4'33"
April 25, 2016 10:00 - 7 minutes - 3.41 MBAh, spring rain and the pitter patter of drops on my hood. Pretty difficult to avoid the slightest-of-wind recording with the iPhone mic. Ya, gotta get a better location rig. Keywords: Rain drops, audio meditation, sound, New England, awareness of environment, wind screens do not save the world, bubbles, forest tradition, meditation, calming, mindfulness, mindful, meditate, weather Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
M#042 .:. The MAW: Hot Boston Flowers
April 23, 2016 11:00 - 28 minutes - 26 MBThe MAW is Mindfuling at Weekend, a compilation of the previous week's releases with a little nip and addition. Writing this I am reminded of a favorite quote from the Great Zen Master in middle ages Japan: Flowers fall with our attachment, weeds spring up with our aversion. When we practice skillfully we can see the beauty of the flower, allow its coming and going easily, not growing angry when the inevitable falling petal hits our mind. Keywords: Anger, Memory, Boston Strong, Marathon,...
M#040 Louder Than A Bomb
April 18, 2016 10:00 - 19 minutes - 18 MBAwareness, Mindfuling, is Louder and Faster and Bigger than the speed of sound of material of this world. Ya know, you can be aware of a surprise and not be taken over by it as it unfolds. Keywords: Patriots' Day, Boston, Mindfulness, Meditation, Awareness, Bandit, Explosion, greed, fear, delusion, presence, surprise, practice, public enemy Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
M#039 .:.The MAW: Bubble Walk
April 16, 2016 10:00 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBThe MAW is Mindfuling at Weekend, a compilation of the previous weekday's podcasts with a little nip and tuck. Keywords: walking meditation, mindfulness, sphere of influence, vipassana, awareness, serial radio theater, mindful, meditate Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
M#037 More Bubbles
April 13, 2016 10:00 - 11 minutes - 10.5 MBBubble Theory focuses a bit more on relationship, community and the vital reality that practicing with others is a key part of the path to waking up. Keywords: community, sangha, isolation, distortion, information gathering, collecting and neglecting, mindful Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
M#036 Bubble Theory
April 12, 2016 10:00 - 11 minutes - 10.1 MBWe live in bubbles of perception. Our bodies are bubbles of a sort. Our mind is a bubble generating and preserving entity. Seeing our limits is so helpful to moving freely and peacefully. Keywords: Awareness and boundaries, popping and locking, movement and flexibility, fragility and temporary, mindfulness Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
M#035 Walk On
April 11, 2016 10:06 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MBMore walking meditation, with standing meditation more explicitly worked into the moving posture of meditation. Keywords: Walking Meditation, Standing Meditaiton, Finding your walk, not a zombie walk, awareness. Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
M#034 .:. The MAW: Walking Awake
April 09, 2016 10:00 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MBMindfuling at Weekend is a compilation of the previous weekday's podcasts, lightly edited and bookended with a bit o' blarney. Keywords: Mindfulness, theanine, walking meditation, guided, opening day, red sox, waking up, walking dead, hull massachusetts, sea side, practicing meditation whilst sick, spring, the howling of domestic-like wolves Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
M#032 Walking Meditation
April 07, 2016 10:00 - 13 minutes - 12.5 MBWalking Meditation is a very important practice. Start simply and comfortably. So many benefits but each step matters and building awareness of walking can be very tricky. Walking activates the mind and it is the mind we are training when we walk along with the body, which of course includes the beating heart. Keywords: Walking Meditation, pacing, thinking, chickadees, awareness, Buddha, India, Tesla, Forest Tradition, compassion, wisdom Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers |...
M#031 Opening Day
April 06, 2016 10:00 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBOpening Day, preparations, new season, spring, nature, tradition. Less "thinking" than reaction. A trained reaction and timing in the moment. You can train for an opening every day, and every moment can be an opening to the next. Pow!, belly awareness, anapanasati, concentration, mindfulness. Keywords: Red Sox, opening day, baseball, Big Papi, David Ortiz, DH, designated hitter, home run, retirement, reaction time, George Mumford, basketball, ssimc, performance, training, freedom, contentm...
M#030 Listen, Go to Hull .:. 4' 33"
April 05, 2016 16:35 - 8 minutes - 7.56 MBA 4' 33" sound meditation. With a dog named Moxie. In a vehicle. Wicked windy outside and the surf is churning about a hundred feet away. All these words are not the point of listening. They actually come after the experience. So quick we are to add to what is experienced. Keep it real, keep it raw. Keywords: Hull, Ma, south shore, sound meditation, ambient, growl, beach, dog, canine, meditation, 433, 4'33", 4 minute meditation, mindfulness Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheever...
M#029 A Sick Practice
April 04, 2016 19:00 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBSo you get sick, we all do, and you take a vacay from formal practice. Of course. Or of course not. Practiciing while sick is great. (However, practicing with others when you are a huffing contaminant, that's a different story.) This podcast can be great for practicing whilst not feeling so great. Keywords: sickness, illness, practice, meditation, breath awareness, continuity Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
M#028 .:. The MaW
April 02, 2016 10:00 - 46 minutes - 43 MBMindfuling at Weekend (The MAW) is an edited compilation of the previous weekday's podcasts. Super dense. Super freak. YaOww. Keywords: MAW, serial radio, drama, sound meditation, ssimc, dharma, dhama, dhamma, south shore, ma, eire, mindful, mindfulness, meditation, meditations Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
M#026 Opening Up
March 31, 2016 10:00 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MBTransition from a Breath Awareness through a Sound Awareness to a General Awareness and back again is discussed and practiced. You can use the breath as your sole object but you can move into a wider mode of awareness once a steady awareness is established. This is not easy to do with true moment-to-moment fidelity but give it a try. Beware of Ping Pong mind during the transitions. Keywords: mindfuling, mindfulness, breath, sound, shikantaza, meditation, meditation Written, Recorded and Pr...
M#025 Dead Air .:. 4'33''
March 30, 2016 10:00 - 9 minutes - 8.88 MBSound meditation, there was a "wind warning" in effect so gust of up to 50mph were in the forcast. We hear a few big whispers. Keywords: dead silence, delusion, radio, terrestrial, hum, south shore, ma, insight, eire, 4'33", 4 33, 433, meditation, meditating, buddha, buddhism, mindfulness Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
M#024 Wake Up
March 29, 2016 11:00 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MBWaking up from discontent is waking up from, like, death! Keywords: Easter, rebirth, reincarnation, addiction, practice, discontent, ssimc, eggs, buddha, buddhism, mindfulness, mindful, life, awakening, awake, dead, deathless, now, eternal now Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
M#023 Hearing the Waterfall
March 28, 2016 10:00 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MBWhen one first begins to seriously sit in "silence," things can be very loud! Like a waterfall at close roar. What to do and is this normal? Keywords: Silence, listening, vipassana, meditation, mindfulness, beginner's mind, objects of contemplation and concentration, beginner, beginners, meditate, starting meditation, first meditation, first sit, try to meditate, trying to meditate, racing mind, racing thoughts, i can't meditate Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: p...
M#022 The MaW
March 26, 2016 11:00 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MBCompilation of previous week's episodes with edits and various weekend barking and effects. A major dose, Jr. Keyword: Mindfulness Inc., 4'33", robins, delusion, bauhaus, Bella, Undead, Zombies Hot and Buddhas Cool, Attaining the Waterfall, mindfulness, ssimc, easter egg, time, underwriting, listeners like you Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
M#020 Seeing the Waterfall
March 24, 2016 11:00 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MBFirst experiences of sitting in meditation without the complex distractions or phrases can be overwhelming, like the power of a waterfall in the mind. Keywords: Attaining the waterfall, beginner's mind, habit, pattern, mindfulness, body awareness, breath awareness, where is your mind, meditating, meditate, sitting in silence, habit, deluge, chatter, monkey mind Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
M#019 Immortality & Delusion
March 23, 2016 10:00 - 13 minutes - 11.9 MBA sigh is just a sigh. The fundamental things is we are going to get sick, age, die, and grow separate from all — and everything we do has consequences, but don't freak out! Goths Up Trees (GothsUpTrees.net) is humorous and poignant and you have to read the captions with a light heart and laugh more heavily than an eight-inch black platform shoe. Keywords: five remembrances, the hunger, catherine deneuve, david bowie, immortality, as time goes boom, monastic, buddhism, historical buddha, an...
M#018 Whispering Dinosaur .:. 4' 33"
March 22, 2016 11:00 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MBThe second version of the 4' 33" sound meditation practice. The recording took place soon after an early spring snow storm on the South Shore of Massachusetts. The robins where faintly in the distance working the melting snow. Keywords: 4' 3'', Four Thirty-Three, 4 33, 433, John Cage, sound meditation, mindfulness, melting snow, velociraptors, Meditation, Zen, Silence, mindfulness, audience participation, sound studio, environmental music, ambient, buddhism Written, Recorded and Produced b...
M#017 Mindfulness Inc.
March 21, 2016 11:00 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBMindfulness disconnected from the other seven parts of the wheel that is the path can be helpful, but we are pretty sure that buying Mindful Mayonnaise misses the point. Keywords: New York Times, Eight Fold Path, Buddhism, buddha, historical buddha, peace, wise speech, experiment in wave theory of mindfulness Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
M#016 Mindfuling at Weekend (MaW)
March 19, 2016 16:12 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MBThis is a giant MAW (Mindfuling At Weekend) episode! As offered previously, this turns out to be super dense and extremely condensed—probably too much—and too much to take as a future series of our weekly meditations. On the other hand it is a convenient arc for a mindfulness practice that begins with the inspiring realization that life is short and has consequences. However, be wary of taking it all too seriously, else zombies demolish your presence, as our serialized Hot Zombies Cool Buddh...
M#014 IMPosture
March 17, 2016 10:00 - 7 minutes - 7.23 MBStanding meditation is an active posture of great benefit to one's meditation practice. It is as real as sitting meditation, however it is standing! Keyword: Standing, mindfulness, feet, soles, floor, posture, body sensation, awareness, attention, movement, meditation, stand, stand up, gravity Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
M#013 Sound 4' 33" Meditation
March 16, 2016 10:00 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MBJohn Cage was a composer who created a three movement composition in 1952, which essentially structured the found sound of an environment into a meditation on sound. Inspired by Cage's composition, the Mindfuling podcast will offer a weekly version of 4' 33". Keywords: Four Thirty-Three, 4 33, 433, Meditation, Zen, Silence, mindfulness, audience participation, sound studio, rain, environmental music, ambient, tudor, buddhism Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: paul@...
M#012 Metta World
March 15, 2016 11:00 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBA taste of Metta — of Loving-kindness, Goodwill, Loving-friendliness — and a portion of this great practice capable of cushioning our lives. Keywords: Metta, Pali, Concentration, Mindfulness, SSIMC, practice, Compassion, Joy, Equanimity, fear antidote, great wealth Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
M#011 Remembrances
March 14, 2016 11:00 - 9 minutes - 8.6 MBOh Monday, Oh my. Heavy remembrances or light reality. The Five Remembrances are to be reflected upon with great frequency. Many Buddhist monastics hit these daily in practice. You should hit them with some sort of regularity in your practice of the path. Keywords: upajjhatthana sutta, remember, mindfulness, mindfuling, bell meditation, ease, awareness, boomtown rats Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
M#010 Being Time
March 13, 2016 14:47 - 15 minutes - 14 MBThe greatest invention of all humanity is time. What time is it in your corner of the world? Learn to obliterate time and enter the deathless! Keywords: Dogen, Time Being, Daylight Savings, time travel, North Korea, Zen, Soto, Japan, China, Chan, Meditation, Mindfulness, Palm, Mudra Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
M#009 Escape Velocity Everyday Practice
March 12, 2016 12:00 - 9 minutes - 8.94 MBHey, we are about to click over to the next decimal place and it is apparent that we should give this Mindfuling Podcast thing the good ol' college try and go nearly daily with it — so here we go go! Oh MY! Keywords: Blondie, annie, breath awareness, anapanasati, mindfulness, mindful, sangha, ssimc, wisdom, goodwill, metta, schnoz, nose Written, Recorded and Produced by Paul M. Cheevers | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.Mindfuling.org
M#008 Martian Insight
March 10, 2016 12:00 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBInsight Meditation — vipassana — is not thinking about meditation. Planning and landing machines on Mars is not being on Mars. Practicing awareness with the moment is possible and has practical application on planet earth not just planet Zafu or moon Yoga Mat. Keywords: sati, sutta, mindful, insight meditation, vipassana, ssimc, yogi, ssimc.org, south shore insight, SSIMC, South Shore Insight, Buddha, Dhamma, Dharma, guise, sitting, mindfulness, podcast, wise speech, mars, nasa, space, out...
M#007 Secret Agents
March 08, 2016 01:00 - 29 minutes - 26.5 MBHow do you discern, how do you know if someone is really practicing what they teach or teaching what they practice, and what does that have to do with Apple and security and Dhamma? Link to referenced sutta here>> Hot Zombies Cool Buddhas serial returns. Keywords: identity, spies, spooks, sati, sutta, mindful, insight meditation, vipassana, ssimc, yogi, ssimc.org, south shore insight, SSIMC, South Shore Insight, Buddha, Dhamma, Dharma, guise, sitting, mindfulness, podcast, wise speech, rad...