Such Sweet Thunder Meditation Podcast.

Here I guide a traditional Lovingkindness meditation designed to  allow one to cultivate the experience of Lovingkindness for the self. These practices can be challenging at times, so if any questions arise, please email me through my website, www.suchsweetthunder.org May All Benefit

Here I outline and guide a meditation designed to allow one to dive deep into the experience of gratitude. This is considered a resourcing practice and can  be very helpful when moving through times of transition, stress, and turbulence. If you find these podcasts helpful please consider making a donation: paypal.me/suchsweetthunder May All Benefit

Thoughts, ideas, beliefs, values, and truths are all subject to change and impermanence. Logically we can grasp this concept, yet much suffering arises by our habitual grasping to these ever-changing experiences. If you find these videos helpful, please consider making a donation at paypal.me/suchsweetthunder Chris has been meditating for 35 years and teaching worldwide since 2009. May All Benefit...

According to many of the world’s contemplative traditions all beings want happiness and want to avoid suffering. It is a uniting trait which all life forms have in common.  Join Chris for the next installment of Lovingkindness: “All beings want happiness and want to avoid suffering” where we will take a deep dive into this phrase and what this might bring when we put this into practice. ...

Here I guide a meditation designed to cultivate the skill of welcoming in the  open warmth of lovingkindness, which is always available to us, but our habitual resistances keep it out. With the warmth found in lovingkindness we may begin  to heal individually and culturally.  If you find these podcasts helpful please consider making a donation: PayPal.me/suchsweetthunder. May All Be...

“All of the devils and demons in the world emerge from the human heart. That is the only battlefield where the wars should be fought” Mahatma Gandhi Join Chris Luard for the next episode of Lovingkindness: Loving our enemies. Bridging the Great Divide.  Chris has been practicing meditation for 35 years and teaching worldwide since 2009. He has received formal training in Vedanta, Zen, and Tib...

Goodbyes lie await with each meeting. Within each sorrow, laughter erupts. Within each ruin lies reconstruction. The gold is hidden within the ever-change” Join Chris for the next episode of A Voice From the Ever-Change Meditation Program: Impermanence. A Guided Meditation. In this meditation we hold in awareness the change inherent in our external world  Chris has been practicing meditation...

Here I guide a meditation designed to cultivate an awareness of our own impermanence. While most people recognize that physical change is inevitable, our clinging to certain aspect of  the  body, while pushing away other aspects still gives rise to suffering. This practice can free us from  the pursuit of looking for permanency where it cannot be found.  If you find these podca...

When we practice Lovingkindness meditation we are systematically recognizing and dissolving the resistances to Lovingkindness we hold on to. Though this practice we become more open to receive the kindness of others. In turn, we also become more open to give freely. We feel deeply the benefit of giving and receiving. If you find these videos helpful please consider making a donation: PayPal.me/suc...

“Our task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” Rumi Tune in to a Dharma talk on the topic of Lovingkindness. Here I cover how incomplete views block inhibit our experience of Lovingkindness. If you find these videos helpful please consider making a donation: PayPal.me/suchsweetthunder Chris has been practicing medita...

Here I guide a meditation which comes to us from the Tibetan Mind training canon,  designed to dissolve our self-cherishing attitude and bring about a sense of warm compassion. By equally welcoming in the pleasant and the unpleasant, we create a friction used to  burn through our ego.  If you find these videos helpful please consider making a donation: PayPal.me/suchsweetthunder May...

Here I guide a meditation utilizing our "future self" as a resource fr compassion.  Including the anchors of breath, body, or sound and the resourcing of memories of kindness If you find these videos helpful please consider making a donation: PayPal.me/suchsweetthunder May All Benefit

In this podcast I guide us through a resting practice. Starting by resting with  the experience of sound, body, and breath. When we rest in this way, we are practicing noticing and releasing our resistances, so we may be more available to whatever the present moment brings.  If you find these podcasts helpful please consider making a donation: paypal.me/suchsweetthunder May All Benefit

Bodhicitta is a sandskrit word which refers to the quality of awakening-mind.  This quality is steeped in heartfelt compassion. In the Mahayana Buddhist tradition,  Bodhicitta the inspiration for for the journey of undertaking a spiritual path.  If you find these podcasts helpful please consider making a donation: paypal.me/suchsweetthunder May All Benefit.

Here I tell the legendary story of Siddhartha Gotama Buddha. This galloping story filled with Princes and demons and beautiful, pragmatic teachings is sure to leave you breathless! Inside I talk about his birth, his upbringing, the events which lead Siddhartha to his awakening into the Buddha. Then I go through talk about the Buddha's earliest teachings and how we can use them to alleviate sufferi...

In this guided meditation we systematically recognize and dis-identify with various aspects of our  experience. In this letting go, we learn to rest in the clear, open, spacious awareness which is our true Self.  If you find these podcasts helpful please consider making a donation: paypal.me/suchsweetthunder May All Benefit

 In this Dharma talk I outline the traditional 11 benefits of Metta practice as outlined by The Buddha in a secular fashion, giving modern examples of how this practice can have a direct and lasting impact on our lives.  If you find these podcasts helpful please consider making a donation: paypal.me/suchsweetthunder May All Benefit 🙏🙏🙏

If something is of the nature of existing, it is also of the nature of ceasing. Everything born is subject to death. From the smallest grain of sand to the largest mountain, from the most whimsical idea to the most profound insights, from the smallest hut to the largest empire. This is the eternal law. Join Chris Luard for this very special edition of A Voice From The Ever Change meditation progra...

Here I guide a traditional practice coming from the Mahayana Mind Training canon  of Tibetan Buddhism. By rubbing against the grain of our habitual tendencies to covet our comforts and flee from discomfort, we eventually see the fallacy inherent in the very pursuit. The defenses crumble and we are left in open, spacious, compassionate awareness.  If you find these podcasts helpful please...

In this guided meditation, I gently guide us through the landscape of experience,  pointing out the things we are not.  By systematically dis-identifying with all aspects of experience, we rest in  the open spacious awareness which holds all experience.  If you find these podcasts helpful please consider making a donation: paypal.me/suchsweetthunder May All Benefit

“If we remember that others too are human beings like us,  we can extend a sense of kindness even towards those we think of as enemies” The Dalai Lama Here Chris offers a talk on the technique of lovingkindness meditation.  Pointing out the challenges of such a practice and the benefits of  widening our circle of care to include ourself, loved ones, strangers, and  challenging...

This is the origin story of Zen Master Hui Neng. Considered by many to be one of the founding fathers of Zen, this story is a classic tale of the underdog. It ends with Hui Neng's take on the Buddha's teachings of the Middle Way, which paves the way for one of the pillar teachings in Zen Buddhism. Told with bright gusto, Chris gently points out the teachings which one can glean from this majestic...

Welcome! Here I am offering a short guided meditation through the breath, body, and sound as a way of centering awareness into the here and now.  f you find these podcasts helpful please consider making a donation: papal.me/suchsweetthunder May All Benefit. 

"All of the devils and demons in the world arise from our own heart. and that is the only battlefield where the wars should be fought." Mahatma Gandi.  Welcome to the next edition of “The Brahma Viharas: Lovingkindness for the perceived enemy”  this will be primarily a talk on the practice designed to cultivate the skill of loving our enemies. If you find these videos helpful please cons...

The cultivation of compassion allows us to accept the present moment. Acceptance doesn't mean condone.  Acceptance gives us clear seeing into what is arising in the present moment and the power to move forward  from there.  Join me for the next episode of The Brahma Viharas: Compassion for Loved Ones guided meditation.  Here I'll be guiding a traditional meditation designed to...