The Robert Beatty Podcast

This guided meditation will help the listener find relief from pain. It is particularly useful for pain that is chronic, or difficult to bear.  Using the recording teaches one how to approach the experience of pain and to learn how to suffer less and less. Becoming deeply intimate with the PAIN reveals itself as bare sensations that can become quite bearable.  

In this meditation, Robert takes the meditator on a guided tour of the various mental phenomena that populate the inner world in meditation; and he gently guides the meditator through an appreciation of the reality of those phenomena, and how to be with them in ways that will reduce suffering, increase understanding, and form the building blocks of lasting happiness. This meditation was offered on...

In this meditation, inspired from a poem by the Indian Hindu sage, Ramana Maharshi, Robert skillfully guides the meditator through the steps of understanding the basic principles of anicca, dukkha and anatta, not as a matter of thought or intellect, but experience. We intuitively come to understand that we need do nothing more than accept what is here now.  He closes the meditation with the Buddhi...

Love and mindfulness are synonyms. In both of them there is room for everything; nothing is excluded. With awareness of the present moment, it becomes clear that the past is a class of thoughts occurring in the present moment. This makes it possible to lie back in the arms of love, and allow the wounds of the past to be healed.

This guided meditation includes an inner journey back in time to your own birth and childhood.  "Let yourself imagine being present at your birth and being the first one to hold the baby.  What would you say? What are the words you have always longed to hear?"  The meditation traverses your entire life to the present, and onward to your death.  You can bring love and compassion into your most dist...

All cultures have at their core an archetypal and powerful story, or myth. These myths are actually "true" in that they provide maps of the inner life that are relevant thousands of years later. The Buddha was an historical person, who actually walked the earth. His spiritual journey and awakening provide countless points of inspiration to anyone interested meditation and living life fully. Robert...

Anicca, Dukkha and Anatta are known as the Three Characteristics of Existence.  Everything that occurs and "exists" since the Great Flash which was the beginning of our universe has these characteristics.  Of course this includes ourselves, our loved ones, our possessions, and achievements.  The Buddha suggested that we use the scientific method and carry out the experiment with ourselves as the o...

In this podcast, Robert Beatty explains in a simple, down-to-earth fashion, the Buddhist Five Precepts, which are the guidelines for a happy and successful life in the world. The guiding precepts are very simple and powerful understandings of how the world works, and how we can each create a more satisfying life for ourselves and others. This Dharma talk was given at the Portland Insight Meditatio...

The Four Noble Truths provide the foundation of the entire Buddhist teaching. By becoming aware of suffering, its cause, its ending, and the way to its ending, we can set ourselves free. This is a very practical undertaking; not a philosophical endeavor. This talk was given at Breitenbush Hot Springs, Oregon in June 2024.

This guided meditation by Robert from June 25, 2024, opens our awareness to the fact that consciousness is omnipresent.  One can awaken through seeing, hearing, touching and every sense experience. The meditation concludes with a vast and all-inclusive loving kindness practice.   Ajahn Sumedho, an elder Theravadan teacher of Robert says, "In love there is room for everything."

Robert  Beatty has been offering morning meditation gatherings since the first week of Covid. This guided meditation from June 24, 2024, invites you to be really awake, and to cherish your life. It begins with two poems: Our Jeopardy, by Thomas Carlile, and, Tomorrow We Are Bones and Ash, by David Budbill  As the meditation progresses Robert invites you to imagine finding a comfortable and invitin...

From June 18, 2024: This is a meditation emphasizing love. In love there is room for everything. Every breath sings the same song; every experience sings the same song. Everything is in constant change. For more information, go to www. RobertBeatty.com

From June 17, 2024: Concentration and mindfulness are known as the "The Wings of Awakening." In concentration one emphasizes returning to the breath, and pays little attention to "the wandering mind," or other "distractions." Concentration does not require a gritting of the teeth, or tensing of muscles. Instead, awareness lands on the training object with the delicacy of a butterfly landing on a f...

Robert reads the poem "Oh Death," by Gina Puorro. He then guides a deep meditation on awareness and the experience of the wandering mind.

In this present moment it is possible to use the power of love and mindfulness to go back in time to your birth, and every moment of your life, to bring love compassion and kindness to yourself. You are not limited to the thoughts, feeling, memories and beliefs of this moment. You can help to re-write your history and create the happy present you are really longing for. 

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