Wild Heart Meditation Center

Mikey Noechel offers a guided meditation on loving kindness towards a benefactor. May you be at ease. May you be at peace. May you be kind and gentle with yourself. May you be filled with loving kindness.  Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non-profit Buddhist community based in Nashville, TN. https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.org DONATE: If you feel moved to support WHMC financially please vis...

Andrew discusses the 4th factor of the Buddha's eightfold path, "Wise Action". In order to bring better clarity to discerning the skillfulness and appropriateness of our behavior, we must first look at Wise View and Intention as a way to challenge the distortions of perception and the aspirational principles that should be guiding our decisions; this lays the foundation for embodying these princip...

Mikey Noechel offers a guided meditation on loving kindness towards self.   "May I be at ease. May I be at peace. May I be kind and gentle with this experience. May I be full of loving kindness." Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non-profit Buddhist community based in Nashville, TN. https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.org DONATE: If you feel moved to support WHMC financially please visit: https:...

In this episode Katie Burke reads the Metta Sutta, the discourse on Loving Kindness.  Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non-profit Buddhist community based in Nashville, TN. https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.org DONATE: If you feel moved to support WHMC financially please visit: https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.org/donate Follow Us on Socials! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WildHeartN...

Andrew discusses the Buddha's teaching on the "middle path", as well as the personal experience of losing and rediscovering one's spiritual path. Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non-profit Buddhist community based in Nashville, TN. https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.org DONATE: If you feel moved to support WHMC financially please visit: https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.org/donate Follow...

In this episode, Andrew speaks to the necessity of developing a long-enduring mind on the path of awakening, and a few of the experiences that we will need to endure along the path. Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non-profit Buddhist community based in Nashville, TN. https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.org DONATE: If you feel moved to support WHMC financially please visit: https://www.wildhear...

In this episode, Andrew lays out the fundamental principles of cultivating compassion. Enjoy! Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non-profit Buddhist community based in Nashville, TN. https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.org DONATE: If you feel moved to support WHMC financially please visit: https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.org/donate Follow Us on Socials! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Wi...

In this episode Katie Burke reads the Satipatthana Sutta, the discourse on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness.   First Foundation: Mindfulness of Breath and Body Second Foundation: Mindfulness of Feeling Tone Third Foundation: Mindfulness of Mind Forth Foundation: Mindfulness of Dhammas  Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non-profit Buddhist community based in Nashville, TN. https://www.wildheartm...

Andrew offers some reflections on Impermanence, Change, and Loss & how leaning into these inevitable truths of life can bring about urgency and direction for spiritual practice. Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non-profit Buddhist community based in Nashville, TN. https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.org DONATE: If you feel moved to support WHMC financially please visit: https://www.wildheartmed...

In this episode, Andrew discusses the 4 applications of mindfulness - simple awareness, protective awareness, introspective awareness, and reflective awareness. Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non-profit Buddhist community based in Nashville, TN. https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.org DONATE: If you feel moved to support WHMC financially please visit: https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.org...

In this episode, Mikey Noechel discusses the first verse of the Dhammapada and how suffering is made in the mind. "All dhammas are preceded by the mind. They governed by the mind and formed by the mind. If one speaks or acts with an impure mind suffering follows from there from just as the wheel of the cart follows the ox that pulls it.' Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non-profit Buddhist commun...

In this episode, Andrew discusses the importance of "seeing the goodness" in our lives. The Buddha taught that gratitude and sympathetic joy were important antidotes to misery and jealousy. How can we actively cultivate these mind states in our lives? Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non-profit Buddhist community based in Nashville, TN. https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.org DONATE: If you fee...

In this episode, Andrew discusses how liberating insight is only developed if we take the time to cultivate the conditions that support it. He also talks about the concept of "sudden awakening, gradual cultivation". Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non-profit Buddhist community based in Nashville, TN. https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.org DONATE: If you feel moved to support WHMC financially...

In this episode Mikey Noechel discusses the enemies of compassion. The far enemies, which are known as the furtherest things from compassion, are violence and cruelty. The near enemies of compassion are the things we may confuse with compassion, which are pity and despair.  Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non-profit Buddhist community based in Nashville, TN. https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter...

In this episode Mikey Noechel discusses the four Brahma Viharas, which are also know as the Heart Practices. Loving Kindness (Metta) Compassion (Karuna) Sympathetic Joy (Mudita) Equanimity (Upekkha) Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non-profit Buddhist community based in Nashville, TN. https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.org DONATE: If you feel moved to support WHMC financially please visit: htt...

Spirit Rock Meditation Center teacher, Tempel Smith, visits Wild Heart Nashville and discusses the power of unconscious habits, and how mindfulness can be an essential tool for uncovering and dismantling these habits. Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non-profit Buddhist community based in Nashville, TN. https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.org DONATE: If you feel moved to support WHMC financiall...

In this episode, Andrew discusses one of the most cliche but perhaps essential aspects of the Buddhist path, letting go. When we hold onto impermanent things, we suffer tremendously. But this means that we must be willing then to confront the fear that comes from surrender. Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non-profit Buddhist community based in Nashville, TN. https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter...

Katie offers a guided meditation of Mudita or sympathetic joy Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non-profit Buddhist community based in Nashville, TN. https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.org DONATE: If you feel moved to support WHMC financially please visit: https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.org/donate Follow Us on Socials! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WildHeartNashville/ Instagram: htt...

In this episode, Andrew discusses the metaphor of the "Realm of the Hungry Ghosts", which in Buddhist cosmology is the realm of an "insatiable thirst" and "longing for more" that is so much the cause of much of our unhappiness in life.  Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non-profit Buddhist community based in Nashville, TN. https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.org DONATE: If you feel moved to supp...

In this episode, Andrew discusses the practice of Metta, "Loving-Kindness Meditation", as a way of inclining one's practice to reach beyond self-centeredness and into connection with others. This is the highest aspiration of practice, to move beyond defense and separateness and into connection with others. Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non-profit Buddhist community based in Nashville, TN. http...

Katie offers a guided meditation on Metta towards self, loved ones, neutral people, difficult people, and all being.  Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non-profit Buddhist community based in Nashville, TN. https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.org DONATE: If you feel moved to support WHMC financially please visit: https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.org/donate Follow Us on Socials! Facebook: htt...

Borrowing the title, "No Self, No Problem", from author Chris Niebauer's most recent book, Andrew discusses the Buddha's teaching on Anatta, the teaching of "not-self". What happens when we learn to take the mind less personally & see the present sensory experience unfold without identifying with feelings, perceptions, or thoughts as self? We find more space to creatively engage with our world. Wi...

If we are interested in living a more wakeful and intentional life, it's important that we consider the elements that serve as the foundation for a spiritual path. The Buddha calls these "The Five Spiritual Powers" or "The Five Spiritual Faculties". These are: faith, energy, mindfulness, stillness of mind, and wisdom. Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non-profit Buddhist community based in Nashvil...

“People have suffered in one place, so they go somewhere else. When they have suffered there, they run off again. They think they are running away from suffering, but they are not. It goes with them. They carry suffering around without knowing it. If we don’t know suffering, then we can’t know the cause of suffering. If we don’t know the cause of suffering, then we can’t know its release.” – Ajahn...

Mikey offers a guided meditation on compassion towards self.   Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non-profit Buddhist community based in Nashville, TN. https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.org DONATE: If you feel moved to support WHMC financially please visit: https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.org/donate Follow Us on Socials! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WildHeartNashville/ Instagram: ht...