Wild Heart Meditation Center

Andrew speaks on the topic of "Buddhism Without Borders". 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/WildHeartNashville/...

Andrew discusses opening to difficulty on the path -- how to familiarize the heart with the dissatisfaction that is inherent in our life's journey, for the purpose of acceptance & compassion. 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:...

Andrew discusses the role of energy & effort in the Buddhist path of practice, in particular, looking at the qualities of urgency, applied effort, persistence, & patience. 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.wildheartm...

Andrew Chapman returns back after a 20 day silent retreat in Myanmar. He shares some personal reflections regarding his relationship to Buddhist practice, while also discussing the importance of faith & encouragement on 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...

Andrew offers a guided meditation, using 'breathing' as the primary object. 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/...

Against the Stream Founder, Noah Levine, visits Against the Stream Nashville & offers a Dharma Talk on the Fire Sermon. 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!...

Against the Stream Founder, Noah Levine, visits Nashville & offers a period of practice and a Dharma Talk. Here is Part 1 - Meditation Instructions & Guided Meditation. 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.wildh...

Andrew elaborates on the role of samadhi (concentration / focus / unification of mind) in the development of insight. How does concentration play a role in helping us to deepen and sustain our attention within the mindfulness 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 suppo...

The Buddha's path of practice is aimed at extinguishing the fires of greed, hatred, and delusion that so often overwhelm our unconscious motivations and behaviors. In doing so, we must learn how to look deeply into our own minds to examine our beliefs and motivations and learn to practice and intentional way of relating to the changing conditions of our lives. Our ability to awaken demands that we...

One of the most transformative aspects of the Buddha's teaching is his teaching of Anatta ("Not-Self"). Through the practice of vipassana ("insight meditation") we can learn to identify the destructive and confining views of ourselves (i.e. sakkaya ditthi - 'self view') and learn to embody a more spontaneous and authentic way of relating to our lived experience. Wild Heart Medi...

ATS Facilitator, Mikey Noechel, discusses Buddhist practices for working with Shame. 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/WildHeartNa...

Forming intimate relationships are necessary for both an integrated sense of self in the world and the development of healthy coping mechanisms to help us overcome life's inherent struggles. Often times, some of our most troubling experiences stem from our interactions with others. Through our formative years, most of us have learned patterns of communicating that are often maladaptive and push pe...

Often times we develop clarity and wisdom through the most challenging aspects of our lives. As we embark on a contemplative path of practice, we learn to tune into more moments of experience and investigate the nature of dissatisfaction in the mind. Although we will never rid our lives of painful physical, emotional, or mental experiences, through practice, we learn that we can, indeed, come to l...

What is taking up unnecessary space in our lives? What types of behaviors and what particular patterns of thoughts no longer serve us any more? One way to look at renunciation is the practice of "not needing anything extra". Through mindfulness and the ethical trainings in Buddhist practice, we can learn to bring awareness to the aspects of our life that are taking up space and causing o...

The process of awakening is likened to tending to a field for harvest. The growth and deepening of wisdom develops as we learn to: 1. Survey the land, 2. Plan & Prepare the field, 3. Plant the seeds, 4. Tend to the crop, and 5. Pick the fruit. The Buddhist path of practice invites us to take a seat in the middle of several fields of experience, amidst the intersection of our internal & ext...

The Buddha offered the cultivation of mindfulness as the direct path to liberating wisdom. Through observing our thoughts, emotions, and feelings in present awareness, we develop insight and familiarity with our inner landscape. However, we are often looking at our direct experience through the lens of aversion, fear, obsession, etc... "HOW" we focus on our present experience is just as...

The historical Buddha's style of teaching was open, inviting personal exploration and investigation (pali sanskrit term, Ehipassiko, meaning "come and see"). Although the encouragement of mindfulness practice is to bear witness to one's own subjective involvement in moment to moment experience, we can often fall into the trap of judging our experience as "right" or "wrong&...

Often, when we build up our defenses around the heart, we are trapping ourselves inside the walls with the pain we are trying to protect. Forgiveness is the intentional practice of "giving up any hope for a better past", learning to dissolve the resentments towards ourselves and others that keep us bound to past experiences. We can learn to understand that harm is caused out of suffering...

Andrew continues his discussion of the 4 Foundations of Mindfulness, speaking on the theme of the Five Hindrances. Through mindfulness, we can bring active awareness to the most subtle defenses of our minds and learn to transform obstacles on the path into opportunities for awakening. Listen to explore how we can bring active awareness and skillful resourcing to these Five Hindrances: craving, ave...

In this talk, Andrew discusses the theme of awakening & the forms of the Dharma that support awakening. How does our ethical commitment to non-harming combined with the mental trainings of mindfulness and heart practice both protect the heart & cultivate its release from distress? Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non-profit Buddhist community based in Nashville, TN. https://www.wildheartm...

The Buddha said that the nature of this world lies within our perceptions and thoughts. In this talk, Andrew discusses how our often unexamined patterns of thinking generate distress (magnification, fixation, rumination, and proliferation) and how the Buddha proposed we begin to examine and liberate the mind from unconscious and habitual patterns of suffering. Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non...

How can active awareness help us better manage the pleasure & pain of our lives? What does it look like to bring mindfulness to the primary sense impressions of the body & mind? How do we deal with pain, and how do we take active delight in the pleasure of our lives? Andrew discusses mindfulness of feeling tone & how mindfulness can help us to minimize the habitual & unconscious re...

Andrew builds on his discussion from last week, outlining the 3 skills of mindfulness practice (concentration, observation, & equanimity), to discuss the ways that mindfulness meditation promotes insight into the 3 marks of existence (impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, & impersonality). Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non-profit Buddhist community based in Nashville, TN. https://www.wildh...

Andrew offers a wide overview of meditation and its general affect on the brain. He discusses how mindfulness provides clarity into the nature of the stress manufactured by the brain, and how the skills of concentration, observation, & equanimity are cultivated and fine-tuned through practice. Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non-profit Buddhist community based in Nashville, TN. https://www.w...

Andrew provides a brief overview of satipatthana (The foundations of mindfulness) and then offers a discussion on 4 applications of mindfulness that are offered throughout the Buddhist discourses in the Pali Cannon. 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...