Such Sweet Thunder Meditation Podcast.

Everyone’s story contains at least one villain. And likewise, we all play the villain in someone else’s story. Join me for the next episode of Brahma Viharas: Detour into Forgiveness.  Here I will guide a meditation designed to help us cultivate forgiveness  for ourselves and for others.  This practice helps us free our heart from resentment and move into an  embrace the presen...

“The wound is where the light enters us” Rumi. Welcome to chapter two of the Brahma Viharas series:  Self Compassion. This podcast will include a short Dharma Talk and I will introduce a guided meditation designed to cultivate self-compassion. If you find these videos helpful please consider making a donation: papal.me/suchsweetthunder May All Benefit🙏🙏🙏

Welcome to “A Voice From the Ever-Change” meditation program!  Here i will read from the final chapter of my book, "A Voice From the Ever-Change"   talking about my own personal journey and the  practices of resting, equanimity, gratitude, contingency, and impermanence. If you find these videos helpful please consider making a donation: papal.me/suchsweetthunder May All Benefit 🙏🙏...

This is a great practice used to establish or reestablish the desire to  practice meditation. This guided meditation will bring one into direct  contact with the reasons we are coming to a meditation practice, and to  help us use our clear intentions for practice to fuel the meditation.  May All Benefit. 

Here I guide a meditation designed to allow us to enter into a heightened sense of awareness and attention by bringing mindfulness to the present moment sensations and experiences. Then we enter into an open inquiry using the pointer question "what is this? If you find these videos helpful please consider making a donation: papal.me/suchsweetthunder May All Benefit 

Here I guide a traditional meditation practice which comes from Tibet called Tonglen. Tonglen means taking and sending. In this practice we inhale the suffering of others  and send out the our own joy and comfort to those whom are suffering. In doing this our habitual ego clinging eventually dissolves. We are left in a compassionate openness. May All Benefit. If you find these videos helpful...

“The highest form of human intelligence is the capacity of seeing oneself through the eyes of non-judgement.” J. Krishnamurti Krishnamurti knew that the more we can experience ourself without judgement, the more we can experience our human  family without judgement, and all experience. Welcome to the Brahma Viharas: Equanimity.  Experiencing the world free from the judging mind takes ded...

Here Christopher guides us through a meditation specifically  designed to allow us to cultivate the quality of non-judgement and  equanimity.  By allowing ourself to experience our mind free from preference and prejudice, wee discover the ability to experience people above and beyond a belief system. A great gift indeed! If you find these videos helpful please consider making a dona...

In many contemplative traditions waking life is compared to a dream. It is said that through meditation we can recognize the dreamlike  quality of life itself and begin to awaken to the possibility of freedom within the dream. This meditation is designed to facilitate such an experience.  May All Benefit. 

Welcome to the next episode of A Voice From the Ever Change meditation program.  Here Chris will be answering questions from our viewers.  Topics are on Lovingkindness, egolessness, dis-identification, pure awareness and more!  Chris has been practicing meditation for 35 years and teaching worldwide since 2009. If you find these videos helpful please consider making a donation: payp...

Everything changes. Nothing stays the same.  Join Chris Luard for the next episode of A Voice From the Ever Change Meditation Program: Impermanence. A Dharma talk. Here Chris will outline the benefits of engaging the meditation practices  on impermanence and how they directly relate to the current world situation. Chris has been practicing meditation for 35 years and teaching worldwide s...

In this guided meditation I offer a simple mindfulness technique which we use to heal the wounds between ourself and the environment through the experience of sound.  If you find these recordings helpful,  please consider making a donation at paypal.me/suchsweetthunder May All Benefit. 

Welcome to “A Voice From the Ever-Change” A Dharma Talk   Topics will be resting in challenging situations  and outlining the process and benefits of body-scanning practice. I conclude with a guided meditation on resting. May All Benefit 🙏🙏🙏

Each and every thing created must eventually crumble. This is a universal law.  When I contemplate impermanence, I often visualize the “great” empires of the past. Rome, Athens, Ephesus, Angkor Wat,  (among others) All of these amazing empires must have seemed like indestructible structures, impervious to the law of impermanence. Yet after a certain passing of time there are only ruins a...

Welcome to  of “A Voice From the Ever-Change” meditation program.  Here I’ll offer a guided meditation-poem-commentary-Dharma Talk.  This talk is entitled “The Sound of Rain” Included in this talk is a practice which may help us drop our attachments to our  political ideologies and come together in our shared humanity.  If you find these podcasts helpful, please consider g...

With insight meditation practice we cultivating the ability to dissolve the illusion of being a static, fixed self. We connect with the ever-changing being which we truly are. The benefits of this are truly limitless. Chris has been meditating for 35 years and teaching worldwide since 2009. If you find these offerings helpful, please consider making a donation. paypal.me/SuchSweetThunder May All B...

Today I will guide a meditation into silence. Then I offer a poem and a commentary into that silent space as a way of deepening the meditation. Today’s topic covers mindfulness meditation instructions, resting in the silence of the mind, and finding our human connection despite different beliefs.

“Come along if you care Come along if you dare Take a ride to the land inside of your mind” The Amboy Dukes. Welcome to Such Sweet Thunder Meditation program: insight. A Dharma talk. Insight practice is designed to bring us into direct contact with the pure nature of mind. A true adventure indeed!   Chris has been practicing meditation for 35 years and teaching worldwide since 2009.If yo...

Human experience arises in terms of opposites. Light and dark depend upon each other. Beautiful and ugly create each other. Warmth creates cold. Welcome to “A Voice From the Ever-Change” meditation program where I guide a meditation then offer a poem and commentary to deepen the practice. Today’s topic is finding balance and beauty in the midst of change and transition. May All Benefit 🙏🙏🙏

By opening our heart to whatever is arising in our present moment experience, we have an opportunity to alleviate suffering for ourselves and others. Join Chris Luard for the next episode of Such Sweet Thunder Meditation Program: A Dharma Talk/ Q n A on the practice of Heart Opening.  Chris has been practicing meditation for 35 years and teaching worldwide since 2009.  These podcasts and...

Letting go of our self definitions, we find release into complete freedom. Welcome to “A Voice From the Ever-Change” meditation program.  Here I will offer a guided meditation-poem-commentary-Dharma Talk  on the topic of releasing our self limiting beliefs. May All Benefit 🙏🙏🙏

By embracing the full implications of an ever-changing reality,  The mundane becomes the sublime. Today I’ll be offering a guided  meditation-poem-commentary-Dharma talk on the topic of embracing change. May All Benefit 🙏🙏🙏

"With continued practice in opening the heart during meditation, we begin to accept and love facets of our own self which we forgot or have been repressed. The repression of old pains softens and lifts, because we no longer fear the pain.  However, if fear does arise, we open our heart to that fear. We open our heart to the old scars and the pains.  As Rumi once wrote “The wound is where...

Today, in this episode, I’ll be guiding a meditation into silence, then reading a poem and offering a commentary as a way of deepening the meditation. Today’s topic is resting into the present moment challenges. 🙏🙏🙏

We often have to know our darkness to discover our light. Join me for the next episode of “A Voice From the Ever-Change” where I will offer a guided meditation-poem-commentary-Dharma talk on the topic of embracing our shadow May All Benefit 🙏🙏🙏