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Daily Reflection Sit Join us daily at 12:00 PM (Eastern) The Paramis: Adhitthana (Resolution) The Daily Sit Categories THE PARAMIS: ADHITTHANA (RESOULTION) Play Video Play Video 39:26 2023 August 30: Resolve to Take Care of Your Wellbeing What would it be like to pause in the middle of your day and notice, to drop in and notice what it feels inside? Check in on the BODY, on what it's doing, on its BREATHING, on the MIND, on what it's thinking, and on the HEART, on the attitude of attention. Then, adjust accordingly... letting go of stress and bringing about ease. Play Video Play Video 36:56 2023 August 29: Resolve to More Fully Inhabit the Present Moment Make magic out of the ordinary. Play Video Play Video 38:34 2023 August 23: The Parami of Resolve Invites us to Consider Our Intention in the Practice Remembering that our practice helps us be with the inherent groundlessness and instability of being alive in this world. Noticing when we demand and expect that the practice give us certainty or solid ground. Play Video Play Video 39:12 2023 August 21: Benefits of Resolve and Ordinary Moments of “Enlightenment” Appreciating the gradual blossoming of the fruits of our resolve to stay with the practice and the ordinary moments of a bit lighter, freer, more content that arise. Play Video Play Video 39:26 2023 August 16: Resolve to Watch Over Your Wellbeing CHECK IN, many times a day, and see what and how you are doing and how it feels inside: in the BODY, in its BREATHING, in the attitude of HEART and the attention of the MIND. LET GO of whatever stress is possible and ORIENT towards wellbeing. Play Video Play Video 39:30 2023 August 14: Articulating a Specific Micro-Resolution Take a 12-second pause several times each day. Play Video Play Video 39:25 2023 August 09: Resolve is a Matter of the Heart & Mind For today, what small move can you make to support your wellbeing? Nothing grand. Consider actually doing something or not doing something in support of your wellbeing. Play Video Play Video 38:21 2023 August 07: The Parami of Resolve Resolve is not a club we beat ourselves with, it is a post-it note reminding us what is too important to forget. Play Video Play Video 38:03 2023 August 02: Right View Identifies the Causes of Distress and the Causes of Wellbeing Right Resolve moves us then in the direction of wellbeing.

Daily Reflection Sit Join us daily at 12:30 PM (Eastern) Brahmaviharas The Daily Sit Categories BRAHMAVIHARAS Play Video Play Video 37:35 2025 November 26: The Joy of Being Alive There are no ordinary moments. Play Video Play Video 36:37 2025 November 24: Ordinary Joy Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Help them instead to find the wonder and marvel of an ordinary life…. Play Video Play Video 38:20 2025 November 19: Inner Compassion Supports Outer Compassion Just as I am vulnerable, so are all beings. Play Video Play Video 38:26 2025 November 17: Inner Compassion How are we treating ourselves in the privacy of our minds & bodies? Play Video Play Video 38:43 2025 November 12: Revisiting Metta Practice being a little kinder. Play Video Play Video 38:10 2025 November 10: Bringing Goodwill Into Daily Life Learn to practice metta in real time–at the coffee shop, the grocery store, while walking a city street, driving or riding the train or bus. Offer folks wishes of goodwill. Be creative. Give the mind something useful to focus on. Play Video Play Video 38:34 2025 November 05: On the Job Training: The Brahmaviharas at Work We humans are living in an ideal situation with enough joy and sorrow to condition the heart. Play Video Play Video 39:01 2025 November 03: Rotating Between Brahmaviharas Trusting your discernment to choose the appropriate heart quality needed. Play Video Play Video 38:41 2025 September 29: What Brings YOU Joy? Noticing and recognising wholesome pleasant feeling tones that arise from direct experience with the senses. Paying attention to that as a way to orient towards gladness and joy. Play Video Play Video 37:39 2025 September 24: Sensing Mudita To prime the pump of mudita, look to the senses to find joy! Play Video Play Video 37:42 2025 September 22: The Practice of Arousing Joy Co-creating small uplifting moments of connection. Play Video Play Video 38:22 2025 September 17: Misunderstandings of the Truth of How Things Are False (frequently unconscious) understandings of self and abundance, or lack thereof, are barriers to joy. Practice can help us to uncover the truth, and open our hearts. Play Video Play Video 38:34 2025 September 15:Joy on Retreat How joy rises from letting our hearts be nurtured. Play Video Play Video 38:19 2025 September 10: The Discipline of Joy It has been said that to help the heart feel joy, we need a discipline of kindness. Play Video Play Video 37:51 2025 September 08: Mindfulness and Mudita Mindfulness helps us notice both the things we can appreciate and the blocks we may temporarily experience when wanting to cultivate appreciation. Load More

Daily Reflection Sit Join us daily at 12:00 PM (Eastern) The Paramis: Sila (Mortality) The Daily Sit Categories THE PARAMIS: SILA (MORTALITY) Play Video Play Video 12:54 2023 March 01: Orienting in the Direction of Non-Harm & Goodwill With the 5 precepts as a guide to living well, refraining from causing harm brings forth wholesome heart qualities of safety, trust, honesty, integrity, respect, clarity. Play Video Play Video 16:07 2023 February 27: Attending to our Little Addictions Video games, caffeine, food, multi-tasking; things that may cloud the mind and lead to heedlessness. Play Video Play Video 19:18 2023 February 22: The Third Precept: Refrain from Sexual (Sensual) Misconduct Understanding sexual misconduct from just a rational perspective respecting all regardless of sexual orientation, preferences or anatomies. Recognizing Sexual (sensual) pleasure is neither good or bad, but that attachment to such pleasure can be the source of suffering for self and others Play Video Play Video 15:52 2023 February 20: The Second Precept of Sila: Refrain from Taking What is not Freely Offered In refraining, we pause and get curious about what is stirring within us. Can we settle and train in growing our appreciation of what is here now and what we already have? Play Video Play Video 11:16 2023 February 15: The Ethics of Inner & Outer Speech How do we speak to others? How do we speak to ourselves? Are the words timely, truthful, useful, and spoken from a place of non-harm and goodwill?Adjust accordingly. Play Video Play Video 15:05 2023 February 13: The Precept of not Killing Bringing nuance and sensitivity and discernment to this matter, which includes our relationships with animals, insects, plants and trees. Play Video Play Video 20:09 2023 February 08: The Inner Ethic of Our Meditation Practice How do we set up the posture of our meditation practice with an attitude of non-harm and goodwill? Play Video Play Video 15:28 2023 February 06: Virtue, Ethical Conduct Ethical conduct in body, speech and mind comes with us on and off the cushion. Are you being skillful in what you are doing and how you are doing it? Adjust accordingly.

Daily Reflection Sit Join us daily at 12:00 PM (Eastern) The Five Daily Reflections The Daily Sit Categories THE FIVE DAILY REFLECTIONS Play Video Play Video 39:44 2026 January 28: Addressing the Five Remembrances with the Wisdom of the Bramaviharas The 5 remembrances may generate fear to some people, but befriending them through the lens of the Bramaviharas can help us all appreciate each remembrance and become more mindful and grateful towards our life. Play Video Play Video 38:24 2026 January 26: A Look at the Five Remembrances through the Eyes of the Kintsugi Craftsman Can we view the Five Remembrances as a sacred apprenticeship with metta and care? Play Video Play Video 38:04 2026 January 21: The Five Remembrances: Weaving Us Back Into the Fold of Nature Using Joy Harjo’s poem Remember we are called to re-member ourselves back into the fabric of the natural world. Play Video Play Video 38:26 2026 January 19: Appreciative Phrases which Counterbalance the Remembrances It is true that things won’t always be so, but they are so now. Play Video Play Video 36:34 2026 January 14: The Remembrances are Not a Stand Alone Teaching Without meditation, by themselves these teachings could leave the glass half empty. Play Video Play Video 38:00 2026 January 12: The Five Remembrances: The Beginning. The Buddha encountered 4 divine messengers—an old person, a sick person, a corpse—which woke him up to the reality of this human life. The fourth, a radiant monk, gave him hope that there was a way out of the suffering that comes with being human. These five remembrances bring these truths to life. Play Video Play Video 38:02 2026 January 07: The Holding Environment is a Portal to a Transformed Life We must commit and recommit to holding all of ourselves warmly and with care. Play Video Play Video 40:19 2026 January 05: What Helps Us Stay Calm and Grounded? The importance of knowing how to calm ourselves by relaxing the body, the breath and the mind.

Daily Reflection Sit Join us daily at 12:00 PM (Eastern) The Seven Factors of Awakening: Mindfulness The Daily Sit Categories THE SEVEN FACTORS OF AWAKENING: MINDFULN... Play Video Play Video 38:01 2024 October 2: Sustaining Mindfulness Cultivating a relaxed and engaged interest in the always new moment. Play Video Play Video 38:17 2024 September 30: Live More: Slow Down Haste steals many moments from us. How can there be Wise Attention when we are moving so fast? Play Video Play Video 00:36 2024 September 25: The Moves that bring about Wise Attention For wise attention to arise, mindfulness must be present in order to SEE and FEEL clearly and accurately. Clear seeing and feeling only occurs when no demands are made on how the moment should be. It just Is how it is and mindfulness is noticing and sensing what this feels like. Play Video Play Video 38:05 2024 September 23: Wise Attention Exploring the difference between awareness and wise attention. Play Video Play Video 37:44 2024 September 18: Mindfulness as a Quality of Attention Mindfulness takes a step back out of the subjective, personal view, and into a wider, non-judgmental and non-identified posture, attitude or view of caring attention to what is happening in the present moment. Play Video Play Video 37:17 2024 September 16: Mindfulness: The Buddha’s Contribution to the Contemplative World Contrasted with Concentration, which was the practice of the day Play Video Play Video 38:53 2024 September 11: How do we love everything into the fold of mindfulness? Drawing from the Tibetan teacher Longchenpa’s five qualities of mindfulness and metaphors as a support. Play Video Play Video 38:28 2024 September 9: Mindfulness: The First Factor of Awakening Exploring what mindfulness is and how to keep our understanding and practice of it alive and new. Play Video Play Video 38:37 2024 September 4: The Seven Factors of Awakening What are they? Mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy, calm, concentration, & equanimity. We all have these qualities to some degree and experience them every day but generally don’t notice them. What can they do? Balance out dis-regulated energy in body and mind, help us understand what is happening, and orient us in the direction of less suffering and more ease of wellbeing. Play Video Play Video 37:55 2024 September 2: Introducing the Seven Factors of Awakening Mindfulness is just one of them!

Daily Reflection Sit Join us daily at 12:30 PM (Eastern) The Eight Worldly Winds The Daily Sit Categories THE EIGHT WORLDLY WINDS Play Video Play Video 39:58 2021 December 28 : Samvega and Pasada: Spiritual Urgency & Confidence in the Path What motivates us to practice? Samvega - spiritual urgency - is a positive quality that can deepen our commitment to practice as we see our world on fire and seek another way. Pasada - confidence in the path of meditation - is a balancing quality to samvega that brings calm and protects against pessimism. Play Video Play Video 38:20 2021 December 27: The Holding Environment, Animated! Narrated by Jaye Moyer Animation & audio by Elizabeth Mehling Play Video Play Video 37:05 2021 December 21: The Beneficial Presence Benefactors or a beneficial presence can be a supportive part of our holding environment. The support of benefactors provides warmth and compassion to our practice. Play Video Play Video 40:24 2021 December 20: Practice in Daily Life Steady yourself frequently by coming back into the holding environment. Notice when the holding environment needs some sprucing up. Refresh, rebuild, reconstitute that atmosphere of wise caring attention and then decide what to do next. Play Video Play Video 38:16 2021 December 16: We Want to Come Home We want to deepen and widen our capacity to feel more at home within ourselves and each other. We set up the conditions to support this in daily practice. Play Video Play Video 11:57 2021 December 14 : Nature's Support to our Practice Nature can teach us how to hold ourselves and help us to create our own holding environment. We can carry the lessons of nature throughout our lives - not just outside. Play Video Play Video 39:21 2021 December 13 : Daily Practice Daily practice loosens and releases some of the rougher energy and the grosser tensions. Play Video Play Video 39:51 2021 December 07: Retreat Practice Emphasizing the centrality of retreats in deepening understanding and compassion. Play Video Play Video 38:20 2021 December 06: We're Going on a Year-Long Retreat But the Daily Sit will continue in our absence, led by our senior students! Play Video Play Video 39:09 2021 November 30: Homeostasis and the Inner Holding Environment We say we want the truth, but we want to feel more deeply at home. Play Video Play Video 38:35 2021 November 25 : Gratitude on Thanksgiving Quiet the wish for more, and rest in gratitude. Play Video Play Video 37:30 2021 November 23 : Feeling Like You Are "Not Enough"? Instead of hiding our thoughts and feelings of not being enough behind a more public face, invite them to tea. Hold yourself with some compassion. Play Video Play Video 38:26 2021 November 22: The Practice of Generosity Generosity is an important practice . It expands the language of you and me to the language of we. Play Video Play Video 38:19 2021 November 18: What to do with Shame Withdraw attention from this line of thinking: Been there, done that, know where it goes. Then, TAKE A BREATH. Bring ATTENTION out of the mind and back to the present moment & into the body. KINDLY WATCH OVER the tangle of sensations related to that line of thinking, untangle. Play Video Play Video 40:44 2021 November 16: I am Nobody, Who are You? Exploring the suffering of grasping and clinging to the need to be “somebody” and the alternative of releasing and cultivating humility and gratitude in the context of not-self. A middle path to facing shame. Load More

Daily Reflection Sit Join us daily at 12:00 PM (Eastern) The Seven Factors of Awakening: Equanimity The Daily Sit Categories THE SEVEN FACTORS OF AWAKENING: EQUANIMI... Play Video Play Video 37:09 2025 October 29: FEEL the Flexible Stability of Equanimity Each time Mindfulness “wakes up” in the middle of a story, Take a Breath—Let go of the story—Come back inside—Let the dust settle & come back to center. Repeat often. This rebalancing conditions equanimity to arise. Play Video Play Video 39:41 2025 October 27: Etymology of Equanimity in Latin and Pali Neither aloof nor overly invested. Play Video Play Video 38:48 2025 October 22: The Winds Help Our Equanimity Strengthen Seeing how the winds of change actually help us strengthen our roots, like trees. Play Video Play Video 38:46 2025 October 20: Finding Equanimity In the Midst of Uncertainty The gift of not knowing. Strengthening our ability to be steady no matter what arises. Play Video Play Video 37:07 2025 October 15: Equanimity: Growing Sea Legs Equanimity is best entrained in stormy seas! Play Video Play Video 37:48 2025 October 13: First Step Toward Equanimity Don’t step on things, or reject ,or turn away. Play Video Play Video 39:38 2025 October 08: Equanimity: Feeling More, Not Less How equanimity adds wisdom and builds on and expands on Metta, Karuna and Mudita Play Video Play Video 38:06 2025 October 06: Equanimity in the Midst of Turbulence We can’t control the winds but our practice and training teach us how to adjust our sails. Play Video Play Video 39:10 2025 October 01: The Holding Environment and the Brahmaviharas Weaving the BVs into our inner holding environment, with special attention to equanimity, our focus for the next month. Play Video Play Video 39:02 2025 March 31 : Shifting Out of the Good/Bad Binary Seeing that all human beings have the potential, in any moment, to act from greed, hatred and delusion, or from wisdom and compassion. Can we take responsibility for our unskillful actions and learn from them, and deepen our commitment to non-harm? Play Video Play Video 38:20 2025 March 26 : A Prayer of Equanimity This meditation is shared as a support for reflection Play Video Play Video 37:25 2025 March 24 : Supports We Can Use to Orient Ourselves Towards Equanimity With an example of how equanimity can hold us when we are feeling less than perfect. Play Video Play Video 39:10 2025 March 19 : Making Equanimity Manageable Exploring small ways we encounter equanimity in or everyday lives and appreciating how we are already cultivating equanimity alone and together. Play Video Play Video 38:50 2025 March 17 : Equanimity as a Relationship of Wisdom Equanimity knows that the nature of all conditioned phenomena is the same, which allows us to be less attached to how things are moment to moment. We can learn from noticing our resistance to how things are. Play Video Play Video 38:15 2025 March 12 : Equanimity is a Felt Experience Recognizing when equanimity is there and when it’s not so we can be mindful of it, celebrate it, or practice “ground, breathe, settle, soothe’ to balance. Load More