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As we exit our series on the Progress of Insight, we spend the day talking about the Brahma Viharas (the Divine Abodes) which is used as a tool for developing concentration and building mind-states as opposed to feelings.  Recorded 8/5/2021 Join our daily Morning Meditation at patreon.com/mettagroup to help commit to your practice!

Today we conclude our series on the Path of Enlightenment by discussing the final six stages. These stages are beyond where most people's practices are, but are still useful in building a theoretical understanding of the process of enlightenment.  Recorded 7/29/2021 Join our daily Morning Meditation at patreon.com/mettagroup to help commit to your practice!

We continue our series on the progress of insight and analyze stage 9 and 10, respectively the desire to be delivered from suffering and reobservation.  Recorded 7/22/2021 Sign up now for our Meditation X Attachment Level Two course six-month intensive beginning September 16th! Level Two is open to students who have completed Level One as well as students have taken any previous iterations of...

Today we discuss the Buddhist concept of the Miseries (in a fun way!). This is a stage on the path of enlightenment in which you understand the impermanence of life, the inevitability of aging and death, and that the sense of self is a sensing experience that is based on life conditions.    Recorded 7/15/2021 Registration is available for the last two sessions of our signature Meditation...

Today we center our conversation on Dissolution, the fifth stage on the Path of Enlightenment, which is the breakdown of the experience of the barrier between inside and outside and the beginning of a profound flow state.  Recorded 7/8/2021 Join our daily Morning Meditation at patreon.com/mettagroup to help commit to your daily practice!

On this episode of Deepening Your Practice, we talk about the fourth stage of the progress of insight, the knowledge of arising and passing. Discussed as a "point of no return" this knowledge changes your perception of the fluidity and continuity and marks a before and after moment in your experience of the self and the world.  Recorded 7/1/2021 Registration for our signature Meditation x Att...

In this episode, we continue our discussion on the Path of Enlightenment and, in particular, focus on the third stage, which is development of the knowledge of impermanence and the comprehension of satisfaction.     Recorded 6/24/2021 We have opened registration for our signature Meditation x Attachment course. Open to all students, this intensive offers instruction in Buddhist theo...

On today’s episode we discuss the sensory world and its basis in conditionality, which allows us to infer that patterns of arising and passing rooted in karma will be repeated and therefore allows the world to be recognized.   Recorded 6/10/2021 Join our daily Morning Meditation at patreon.com/mettagroup to help commit to your daily practice!

Today we discuss enlightenment as a goal, the desire to end the experience of suffering from both Buddhist and secular perspectives, and the usefulness of different spiritual contexts on meditation and practice.    Recorded 6/3/2021 Registration is now available for our Virtual Summer Retreat! Sign up now here . Join our daily Morning Meditation at patreon.com/mettagroup to help commit t...

We dive into the difference between mental and physical phenomena and breakdown the raw sensing experience and the ways the mind acts to bring those senses into a comprehendible experience.    Recorded 5/27/2021 Registration is now available for our Virtual Summer Retreat! Sign up now here . Join our daily Morning Meditation at patreon.com/mettagroup to help commit to your daily practice...

Today we cover parts of the history of Buddhism and discuss different paths to enlightenment including the old, the new, and the hybrid.   Captured live on 5/20/21. Join our daily Morning Meditation at patreon.com/mettagroup to help commit to your daily practice!

In today’s episode we discuss the process of stabilizing your mind-state and how to identify when your experience of the world is being warped by a filter of self. Captured live on 5/13/21. Join our daily Morning Meditation at patreon.com/mettagroup to help commit to your daily practice!

Continuing our conversation from the previous episode, we discuss how an honest inside practice can create emotional disruption and the practical ways to manage that disruption Captured live on 5/6/21. Join our daily Morning Meditation at patreon.com/mettagroup to help commit to your daily practice!

In this episode, we discuss the purpose of practice, what can get in the way of your practice, and strategies to avoid being pulled out of the present moment.   Captured live on 4/29/21. Join our daily Morning Meditation at patreon.com/mettagroup to help commit to your daily practice!

Continuing our DYP series, we discuss the Mindfulness movement in the West and weigh its benefits and deficiencies in relation to Attachment Theory.   Captured live on 4/22/21. Join our daily Morning Meditation at patreon.com/mettagroup to help commit to your daily practice!

In this episode, we discuss climate change, population growth and density, immigration, and the ways our different global cultures engage with understandings of karma and the cycle of reincarnation.   Captured live on 4/15/21. Join our daily Morning Meditation at patreon.com/mettagroup to help commit to your daily practice!

We discuss inequality, systemic racism, and genocide and how to both express compassion and properly protect yourself in relation to the difficult people that are perpetrators and exacerbators of harm. Captured live on 4/8/21. Join our daily Morning Meditation at patreon.com/mettagroup to help commit to your daily practice!

Today, we speak about holding space with the Neutral People that we encounter in our lives and what the appropriate amount of energy required is for these peripheral relations. Captured live on 4/1/21. Join our daily Morning Meditation at patreon.com/mettagroup to help commit to your daily practice!

In this episode we go in depth into Compassion practice and how to build a working model for your relationships with Friends and Family. Captured live on 3/25/21. Join our daily Morning Meditation at patreon.com/mettagroup to help commit to your daily practice!

We conclude our Compassion cycle with a discussion about expanding compassion outward towards all sentient beings and how to counteract the tendency to exclude individuals. Captured live on 3/18/21. Join our daily Morning Meditation at patreon.com/mettagroup to help commit to your daily practice!

Continuing our series on Compassion practice, we discuss what it is that can make an individual difficult to interact with and how to assess the macro-values of yourself and others to identify conflict. Captured live on 3/11/21. Join our daily Morning Meditation at patreon.com/mettagroup to help commit to your daily practice!

Continuing our series on Compassion practice, we discuss the varied levels of empathy that different types of people might exhibit, and how to build the compassion skills to understand and navigate them. Captured live on 3/4/21. Join our daily Morning Meditation at patreon.com/mettagroup to help commit to your daily practice!

We continue our discussion of Compassion practice, focusing on the different forms of relationships that we participate in and how to better recognize their characteristics. Captured live on 2/25/21. Join our daily Morning Meditation at patreon.com/mettagroup to help commit to your daily practice!

Our deep dive into Compassion Practice continues with developing compassion for a person who is close to you in your life.  Captured live on 2/18/21. Joining our daily Morning Meditation at patreon.com/mettagroup to help commit to your daily practice!

George expands upon the Compassion Practice skill set he began last week to focus on how to develop compassion for yourself - which is often one of the hardest things to do. Captured live on 2/11/21. Joining our daily Morning Meditation at patreon.com/mettagroup to help commit to your daily practice!