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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) Panna The Daily Sit Categories PANNA Play Video Play Video 38:40 2021 April 26: Everything Rests on the Tip of Motivation What is driving our behavior in the moment? We learn to steer away from suffering and harmfulness and towards ease of wellbeing—by LETTING GO of suffering & harm, by BEING WITH whatever is here in a friendly way, and by CARING FOR for the pain that is here. Play Video Play Video 38:35 2021 April 22: Nuts & Bolts of Right Intention Bringing more granular attention to cause and effect in direct experience. Play Video Play Video 38:35 2021 April 20: Right Resolve or Intention Translating non-greed, non-aggression and harmlessness into meaningful bite-size moments of practice. Play Video Play Video 38:31 2021 April 19: The SELF View & the MINDFUL View We learn to shift out of our usual way of relating to the world and shift into a posture of mindful caring attention. This is crucial for practice to grow. Play Video Play Video 38:47 2021 April 15: Starting Out & Staying the Course With mindfulness at the wheel navigating, and keeping Right View in sight, our choices are guided toward non-harm & good will. Play Video Play Video 38:14 2021 April 13: Right View is the North Star! Right or Wise View sets the stage at the outset of our mindfulness journey and keeps us on track for not causing more harm, encouraging more ease and well being. Play Video Play Video 39:31 2021 April 12: Overview of Right View Emphasis upon understanding causes of distress and causes of ease of wellbeing.

The Living Map A Living "Map" of the Buddha's Teachings on Mindfulness There are many ways to offer the Buddha's teachings and we offer this "Living Map" that illustrates and helps navigate a path we started last year and will continue into the foreseeable future. Below is The Wheel of Buddhist Terms created by Ellis Tingstad. I - The Starting Point: SETTING UP a Meditative Posture of Mindfulness - The "Holding" Environment II -PRACTICING the Practice of Mindfulness THE BASICS: The Buddha's Foundational Teachings

Daily Reflection Sit Join us daily at 12:00 PM (Eastern) The Paramis: Khanti (Patience) The Daily Sit Categories THE PARAMIS: KHANTI (PATIENCE) 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.

Meditations & Chanting Setting the stage for meditation with movement with Susan and a sample of meditations and talks from Bill. Meditation Preparation -- Setting the Stage The body is always collecting some amount of tension. The moves in the videos below encourage and support the body to drop what is unnecessary. What Shake it Loose is a free-form practice that releases stress and opens the body and breathing in a playful unscripted way. Let the body have its way with you! This creates space for the heartmind to unwind its burdens in. When BEFORE formal meditation practice AND periodically throughout the day. How Move all of the joints, all of the limbs, as much as they are able. Let breathing be free and full as the body moves. Bend, open, lengthen, roll, shake off tension that has recently accumulated. Not so vigorously that you injure yourself, but enough to tenderize the meat on the bones. Meditations & Chanting Select from the playlists below to listen to a meditation series, hear a talk on The Hindrances and the Seven Factors of Awakening, or participate in a chanting session. Meditations Chanting Download a copy of Suffusion with the Devine Abidings Download a copy of Verses of Sharing and Aspiration

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