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Daily Reflection & Sit Join us daily at 12:00 PM (Eastern) Use drop down menu above to view archived video recordings organized by category. The Daily Sit continues! T hrough the generosity of these facilitators, all dana offered to the Daily Sit will be used to support Bill & Susan's teachings. Bill & Susan host the DAILY SIT with... David Kohn, Jaye Moyer, Lori Rugle, Lee Steppacher, Catherine Glenn 12:00 pm -12:45 pm Eastern Time Monday & Wednesday Teaching & Guided Meditation Tuesday & Thurs day Guided Meditation Alternating Thursdays Guided Meditation, Sangha Groups, Q & A Friday Silent Sit No Weekend Sittings Videos can be found on INSTAGRAM History of the Daily Sit This video project was born at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies in March 2020 when the Covid pandemic struck and we all needed a place to ground, breathe, calm, settle, and soothe. Bill and Susan's time at the Barre Center in 2020 has unfolded into the offering of Daily Sit teachings that help us find ways of being that bring ease and centering to our lives and create a sustainable practice. The following video was recorded March 2020. Enjoy this introduction to the origin of the Daily Sit! Access the videos from the main menu above. The Daily Sit videos are also on Instagram. Follow us online. Empower Growth The Living Map The Buddha’s teachings offer many paths, many maps that lead away from suffering and towards ease of wellbeing. What is unique about this body of teaching is that each path echoes, or interpenetrates into all of the others. They encircle one another as an integral whole, and therefore can be conceptualized and offered in countless ways. In September of 2020, we began offering a more systematic way of practicing mindfulness. Using this visual map of the Buddha’s teachings by Ellis Tingstad, we see these topics as they are offered in the Daily Sit, revealing the path we are traveling alone-together. To see it more clearly, you can click on the map and zoom in. Each topic shows us what is to be cultivated, and what is to be released, let go of. Bring forth the useful, the skillful, the wholesome, Let go of the unwholesome, the unhealthy, the unskillful. Each topic reveals a path that leads toward less suffering and more ease of wellbeing, toward freedom. This is a living “map". It visually illustrates where we are at any given time on the path as we work our way toward Waking Up in the middle of the day, into the present moment and discerning how to create less suffering for ourselves, others and the world. We are never lost if we know what we are practicing; this is our map! Enjoy the adventure! View the Living Map

Daily Reflection Sit Join us daily at 12:00 PM (Eastern) The Paramis: Metta (Lovingkindness) The Daily Sit Categories THE PARAMIS: METTA (LOVINGKINDNESS) Play Video Play Video 38:53 2023 September 27: Widening the Circle of Kindness Metta doesn’t always naturally arise. We have to coax it, nurture it, kindle it, bring it forward even when, especially when, it is difficult to feel. Play Video Play Video 40:00 2023 September 25: Metta as Foundational to the Inner Holding Environment Inviting the infused, felt sense of lovingkindness internally. Play Video Play Video 39:35 2023 September 20: Come Friends Contemplate the Body IN the Body Buddha put mindfulness of the body first! Play Video Play Video 39:06 2023 September 18: Working with Anger and Aversion The power of Metta as the antidote to the “ordinary” fires of greed, hatred and delusion. Play Video Play Video 40:00 2023 September 13: Attending and Befriending In the practice of befriending we can feel a sense of spaciousness and ease. This allows the heart to open . We can not have a spacious mind when the heart is contracted. Play Video Play Video 38:38 2023 September 11: Metta…Relaxation as a Doorway to Metta The intention to care for ourselves as we practice letting go and letting be. Relaxation as reflected in a short teaching ‘the heart mind, so tied up in knots, when relaxed will free itself, have no doubt.’ Play Video Play Video 39:22 2023 September 06: Metta - The Buddha’s Words on Loving-Kindness Understanding the Buddha’s teachings on Metta and what they mean to us today. Play Video Play Video 39:34 2023 September 05: Metta - Not Just Another Parami Metta serves as the backbone in the cultivation of the other Paramis.

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Daily Reflection Sit Join us daily at 10:30 AM (Eastern) Additional Resources Browse the additional resources sprinkled throughout the calendar below. Click on a calendar date to reveal the title of a poem or book, or references to other pieces to enhance your practice. Daily Sit Video Archive Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Daily Reflection Sit Join us daily at 12:00 PM (Eastern) The Paramis: Upekkha (Equanimity) The Daily Sit Categories THE PARAMIS: UPPEKHA (EQUANIMITY) Play Video Play Video 39:21 2023 October 25: Equanimity- Keeping it Simple and Letting Go Releasing our own difficult feelings to bring more peace and balance to facing the world. Play Video Play Video 37:01 2023 October 23: Equanimity: and the 5th of 5 Remembrances How the last of the 5 remembrances help me step back from trying to fix or solve situations and rest more easily in the way things are. Play Video Play Video 39:56 2023 October 18: Equanimity in the Presence of Pain Equanimity is not a goal, it's a direction, a path of seeing and accepting things as they are. From the view of equanimity we can see what needs to be loved and held. Play Video Play Video 38:28 2023 October 16: Noticing When Equanimity is NOT PRESENT When clinging, aversion, casual attention are foreground. Play Video Play Video 39:02 2023 October 11: A Lesson in Equanimity What my mother taught me in the last days of her life. Play Video Play Video 38:37 2023 October 09: Equanimity and the Power of Aligning With the Truth of What Is When the Worldy Winds blow, and especially when this is unpleasant and challenging, how can we accept and align with how things are, and in that find a route to wise engagement? Play Video Play Video 37:48 2023 October 04: Equanimity - Finding a Place of Rest in the Midst of Things The story of the cellist of Sarajavo is a metaphor for sitting in the midst of the small and large battles that we create for ourselves when we want things to be different then they are. Play Video Play Video 39:45 2023 October 02: Equanimity: Beginning to Put it All Together How the practice of equanimity integrates everything we have been practicing.

Daily Reflection Sit Join us daily at 12:00 PM (Eastern) The Paramis: Viriya (Energy) The Daily Sit Categories THE PARAMIS: VIRIYA (ENERGY) Play Video Play Video 37:40 2023 June 28: Nature as Teacher of Patience In the animate and inanimate, nature does not rush or lean forward but is persistent, constant, alert and accepting of conditions. Adopt the pace of nature, its secret is patience (Emerson). Play Video Play Video 38:43 2023 June 26: Recognizing the Harmful Impact of Impatience Understanding the potential harm caused by acting out of impatience. Honoring our pace and the pace of others, remembering that patience is rooted in compassion and equanimity. Play Video Play Video 14:27 2023 June 21: The Fruits of Patience Patience yields a bounty of fruits. Patience will ease our passage through samsara and by practicing patience, we grow strength, equanimity and compassion. Play Video Play Video 13:28 2023 June 19: Patience and Flexibility Cultivating patience as a proactive and engaged practice within the vicissitudes of our lives; just as we stretch the body, patience stretches the heartmind. Play Video Play Video 12:12 2023 June 14: Being a Slow Learner Practicing patience we give ourselves permission to be slow learners giving ourselves time to let our experience filter down from our minds to infuse our hearts and become deeply embodied. Play Video Play Video 12:47 2023 June 07: What We Learn from Working with Impatience Looking at what the parami of patience teaches us. The goodness of the practice itself, Veruca Salt and I want it now! Play Video Play Video 14:49 2023 June 05: The Value of Patience We want to cultivate patience so that we can be more at ease and skillful with discomfort. When we cultivate patience, we expand our capacity to accept and tolerate delay, interference and frustration. Play Video Play Video 15:41 2023 May 31: Viriya - Explorations in Skillful and Unskillful Effort What is it like when we are exerting energy in a direction that isn’t beneficial for us? What is behind it? How do we reroute ourselves? Play Video Play Video 12:10 2023 May 24: Viriya - The Energy of Boredom Boredom has its own energy that can be restless and/or lethargic and push us to get lost in distractions or shut down to our own experience. We can make friends with our boredom and embrace it more skillfully to remain interested in our present moment experience. Play Video Play Video 14:52 2023 May 22: Viriya - Stewarding Our Life Energy with Wise Intention Recognizing the preciousness of our life energy, noticing habitual ways we use it, stewarding it with intention that is wise, realistic and kind Play Video Play Video 14:14 2023 May 17: Energy (Viriya) and Right Effort Right effort asks us if this effort supports our well being and does it support the wellbeing of others. Is it leading us in the direction of less stress and more ease? Play Video Play Video 16:25 2023 May 15: The Energy of Restraint Restraining from unskillful ways takes lots of persistence and patience. We learn from our mistakes over and over until we can feel the sweetness of restraint. Whispering ‘not now’ to ourselves can help. Play Video Play Video 12:49 2023 May 10: Working With Energy in Meditation In practice we aim for a balance of energy, not too tight, not too loose. What is needed to create, maintain or restore an energetic balance and harmony– to soften, settle and release pent up, unnecessary energy and gather, kindle, brighten, clarify scattered or dull energy? Play. Explore. Play Video Play Video 11:26 2023 May 01: The Tendency to Be Overly Heroic Yes, energy is required, but with less striving and with more welcoming. Play Video Play Video 09:48 2023 May 03: Commit to Sit! Is what you are doing worth the energy you are spending on it? Energy Is a valuable resource, a limited resource that needs to be replenished regularly. This is what the parami of energy is all about, committing to our own wellbeing and using our energy to move in this direction.

Continuing Education Bill and Susan Morgan are able to offer continuing education credits through the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy Psychologists Licensed Mental Health Counselors The Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Institute of Meditation and Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for the program and its content. This course offers 20 hours of credit. This program is Approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Approval # 886513225-2689) for 20 continuing education contact hours. The Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6048. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. This program is approved for 20 clock hours. It is also applicable for MaMHCA/MMCEP hours for re-licensure, in accordance with 262 CMR. This program carries 20 Contact Hours and meets the specifications of the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Nursing (244 CMR). Nurses of other states are welcome to contact their state boards for individual consideration. Learning Objectives At the end of this retreat, participants will be able to: Explain the importance of setting up the posture of one’s mindfulness meditation practice. Identify the essential elements of the holding environment. Demonstrate how to set up mindfulness practice in all four postures (sitting, standing, lying down, and walking). Utilize compassion practices to enhance empathic attunement. Utilize meditation techniques for working with unwholesome mind states. Utilize mindfulness and concentration practices in the service of deepening therapeutic presence. Social Workers Nurses