These webinars will cover topics from Level 1. Students of all levels can join and access the recordings.
Recordings of the webinars will be added within 2 days after each event.
Through the simple yet profound practice of being present, we can strengthen our awareness anytime, anywhere, and in any situation. Whether at home, school, work, with family, or alone, every experience can be used as a reminder of our innate well-being through the practice of awareness.
It can often feel like we are simply going through the motions of life day after day. Fortunately, through the practice of meditative awareness, we can use each moment, no matter how chaotic or challenging, to support being present and living fully.
One idea of meditation that people sometimes carry is that we can entirely avoid negative emotions, and that feelings of upset, anger, or fear won’t ever impact us again if we just meditate “hard” enough.
A common aspect of a meditation practice is the tendency of practitioners to bring their own baggage to the process. It’s natural, of course, for a person to have questions, fears, enthusiasms, and doubts about their abilities to “achieve” something while meditating.
Please join us in the next webinar as we talk about how to switch gears and move from “doing” to “being” in our meditation practice.
Everything we have ever searched for is already complete within us.
Making meditation second nature
How to work with expectations in our meditation practice
These webinars will cover topics from Level 2. Students who have completed Level 1 can join and access the recordings.
Recordings of the webinars will be added within 2 days after each event.
It can often be easier to see in others how much energy is spent searching for happiness. When we see our own feelings of wanting to be happy and live at ease reflected in others, we can easily connect with them. Each moment can be used to open our hearts to all beings, including ourselves.
How can we practice love and compassion with the vast number of living beings? Whoever they are, whether they are human or not, all are looking for something: to be happy and free of suffering. Realizing this simple fact is the key that opens the door to immeasurable love and compassion.
A life lived with awareness is one rich with highs and lows. It’s natural to want to savor pleasurable experiences and reject difficult emotions; however, the more we practice, the more we realize that we don’t need strategies and methods to manipulate these experiences.
This month we will explore the benefits of meditation and the value of bringing full awareness to a situation, which enables us to meet the world with compassion and embrace all experiences with an open heart.
Please join us for our next Level 2 webinar to learn more about joy and appreciation and to share your experience with this practice so far.
We look at how to move beyond our biases and connect with the vastness of our hearts.
A focus on appreciative joy and equanimity
Embracing loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity in formal practice and daily life in a healthy and harmonious way
These webinars will cover topics from Level 3. Students who have completed Levels 1 and 2 can join and access the recordings.
Recordings of the webinars will be added within 2 days after each event.
We can often understand multiplicity, interdependence, and impermanence in phenomena but struggle to see it in ourselves. Through our meditation practice and studying the Joy of Living teachings, we realize everyone shares this struggle, motivating us to compassionately help all beings.
How the practice of emptiness in daily life can help us when we feel stuck or entangled.
How often have you heard yourself say, “I’ll be alright if I keep busy”? When faced with difficult emotions it’s understandable that we sometimes want to distract ourselves from pain and upset and continue to be “productive.”
During this webinar Kunsang Palmo and Frederic Auquier will share a simple approach to maintaining perspective. They will offer suggestions on how to approach practice and life as one and the same endeavor, whilst underlining the value of your own personal view.
How the practice of emptiness in daily life can help us when we feel stuck or entangled
How to free yourself from unhealthy patterns.
Coming to be at ease with the quality of emptiness
These webinars will cover topics from the entire program. Students of all levels can join and access the recordings.
Recordings of the webinars will be added within 2 days after each event.
It is common for meditation practitioners to bring their own emotional baggage to the process. Enthusiasm, questioning, fear, and doubt are emotional companions that often accompany us throughout our practice. Whether they whisper encouragement or uncertainty, it is important to relate to these experiences compassionately but ultimately let go of expectations altogether.
When beginning a meditation practice, we are often filled with inspiration and motivation. However, as time passes, we encounter periods of boredom and distraction and may even question why we began in the first place. In this webinar we delve into the common ebb and flow of meditation experiences and how to infuse freshness into our practice and strengthen our motivation.
Everything we need to live a meaningful life is here with us right now. Mingyur Rinpoche teaches that the key to unlocking the door to this realization is the practice of awareness—developing familiarity repeatedly through meditation. This then leads us to open our hearts with loving-kindness and compassion, finally being able to see how things truly are.
We all have the desire to experience a life that is more relaxed, more connected, and ultimately more meaningful. The practice of meditation allows us to stop running away from our experiences, and we learn to rest with the ultimate source of what makes life meaningful: our innate awareness, compassion, and wisdom.
What has your day been like? Has it felt like a bubbling stream, a rushing river, or perhaps even a chaotic waterfall? Meditation, like a gentle paddle, helps us navigate the flow of life, whether we find ourselves floating on a serene lake or caught in the rapids. Becoming familiar with the innate qualities of awareness, love, compassion, and wisdom allows us to appreciate the calm and face challenges with confidence.
How often have you gotten lost in the midst of a strong emotion? Through awareness, we learn to navigate anger, joy, excitement, and even sadness without getting lost — strengthening the skills to relate to emotions healthily.
Everything we need to live a meaningful life is here with us right now. Mingyur Rinpoche teaches that the key that helps us unlock the door to this realization is the practice of awareness—developing familiarity time and time again through the practice of meditation.
We all long for a sense of true connection with others, but may often find ourselves acting in ways that hinder this.
In this month’s webinar we’ll look at how to adapt wherever we are into a fertile ground for practice and how to establish the view that anywhere can be the perfect place for practice.
We are all aware of the familiar image of meditation and the kinds of the people who dedicate time to sitting still with an air of rigorous, self-serious precision.
It can be easy to think that a meditation practice is something that happens when the busy-ness of life stops or is interrupted by moments of peace, clarity, and calm.
As we find ourselves in the second month of the year it’s not uncommon to find that our New Year’s resolutions are increasingly hard to keep or remember. The demands of daily living and the busy-ness of being who we are can seem to undermine all the healthy intentions we set in January, and good habits can feel almost impossible to keep.
How we can be guided by awareness, love, compassion, and wisdom in our daily lives and eventually come to embody these innate qualities of our basic goodness.
Please join us in our next all-level webinar as we explore how emotions are transformed through the practice of meditation.
Please join us in our next all-level webinar as we explore the many ways that awareness, compassion, and wisdom enhance one another and are intertwined at every stage of our practice.
Meditation gives us tools not only to begin to work with our own problems but to train ourselves to be of help to others.
With the practices of awareness, love and compassion, and wisdom, emotions can in fact be our greatest ally on our path.
How meditation can lead us to a more stable experience of feeling at ease with ourselves, allowing us to be truly open and available to others.
Cultivating a sensitive relationship to ourselves so we can stay open and connected to others
Bringing meditation into daily life in accordance with our inner wisdom
How working with emotions can enrich our lives and connect us with others
How awareness, compassion, and wisdom practices support each other
How to develop a healthy relationship with our emotions