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  • Bill & Susan Morgan | Sila

    Daily Reflection Sit Join us daily at 12:00 PM (Eastern) Sila The Daily Sit Categories SILA Play Video Play Video 38:32 2024 July 31: Guidelines for Living Well Play Video Play Video 39:56 2024 May 06: The Fourth Precept: Skillful Speech Let’s learn the ways of skillful speech by tracking HOW WE SPEAK to ourselves in the privacy of our minds and outwardly to others AND noticing THE RESULTS, THE EFFECT. This is good practice. Play Video Play Video 37:55 2024 July 28: The 5th Precept and Managing Consumption Exploring the dance between wants and needs. Play Video Play Video 38:13 2024 July 24: Further Emphasis on Managing the Inner Critic Moving story of gestalt therapist with ALS shared. Play Video Play Video 36:56 2024 May 13: Cultivating Loving Speech May your voice be an instrument of love. Learning to practice this in the face of harsh, aggressive speech. Tai Chi gives a great embodied example of how we can practice. Play Video Play Video 38:04 2024 July 22: The 4th Precept & The Inner Critic How quickly can we appreciatively Notice negative self-talk, Unhook from it, and Kindly unwind from the stress of it? Play Video Play Video 39:04 2024 April 22: Cultivating Loving Relationship as a Foundation for the 3rd Precept Practicing the Brahmaviharas can be the foundation for building deeply loving intimate relationships which protect against sensual/sexual misconduct Play Video Play Video 38:43 2024 April 24: The Kindness of a Gentle Meal Play Video Play Video 38:52 2024 June 26: Unmindful Consumption of Smartphones When did the phone become our best friend we can’t live without? When did we need PSA’s to tell us we need to not text in a movie theater, or when driving? How mindful are we when we pick up our phones? Consider deliberately creating scroll-free time in the day as well as scroll time. Play Video Play Video 37:52 2024 July 15: The 3rd Precept: Body as Temple HUMAN BODIES are fragile…they are made of organic material–flesh, bone and blood. They break, bruise, scar, hurt, ache, decay, bleed, ooze, cry, thirst, hunger, dry out, overheat, cringe, flinch, freeze in fright or cold, ingest, digest, excrete, inhale, exhale,….and only live about 70-80-90 years, if we are lucky. So we must learn to live in accord with their own unique nature and not disrespect, misuse or abuse them. Play Video Play Video 37:32 2024 June 14: THE FOUR GREAT ENDEAVORS - Putting It All Together The Four Great Endeavors teach us different ways of using energy wisely, in the service of letting go of stress and bringing forth ease of wellbeing. With these are meditative moves we can evaluate for ourselves to see if they are moving us in the direction of less suffering. Play Video Play Video 38:06 2024 July 17: Body as Temple Revisited What would change if we practiced viewing the body as temple? Play Video Play Video 37:50 2024 June 13: THE FOUR GREAT ENDEAVORS - When the Unwholesome is not Around, Don’t Invite it. Notice the sticky attachment to the unwholesome, the negativity bias,the inclination of the wandering mind to go looking for trouble. Play Video Play Video 37:20 2024 June 05: We Are What We Eat Is the body not a temple? We would not put garbage in a temple, Yet we often eat what we know to be unwholesome. Play Video Play Video 37:24 2024 June 24: Exploring Want vs. Need in Food Consumption Slow down for a few bites and feel craving as it arises. Does that add anything positive to the experience of taste? Load More

  • Bill & Susan Morgan | The Eight Worldly Winds

    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 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 2021 December 27: The Holding Environment, Animated! Narrated by Jaye Moyer Animation & audio by Elizabeth Mehling Play Video Play Video 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 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 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 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 2021 December 13 : Daily Practice Daily practice loosens and releases some of the rougher energy and the grosser tensions. Play Video Play Video 2021 December 07: Retreat Practice Emphasizing the centrality of retreats in deepening understanding and compassion. Play Video Play Video 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 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 2021 November 25 : Gratitude on Thanksgiving Quiet the wish for more, and rest in gratitude. Play Video Play Video 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 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 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 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

  • RECOMMENDED SITES | Bill & Susan Morgan

    Our Recommendations Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Barre Center for Buddhist Studies offers residential and online courses combining study, discussion, and meditation for connecting sangha, supporting curiosity, and expanding and deepening personal practice. Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy A non-profit organization dedicated to the education, training and support of mental health professionals in integrating mindfulness, meditation and psychotherapy. Center for Mindful Self-Compassion Our mission is to contribute to a more compassionate world through cultivating deep understanding and personal practice of self-compassion and to be a vibrant center for the learning, teaching and practice of self-compassion. Wonderwell Mountain Refuge Wonderwell Mountain Refuge is owned and operated by Natural Dharma Fellowship , a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the teachings of the Buddhadharma in the West. Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center is nestled in the Tusas Mountains, where wildlife abounds among alpine meadows, mountain ponds, ponderosa pines and aspen groves. A more beautiful and supportive setting to cultivate freedom of the heart and mind is hard to imagine. Copper Beech Institute Copper Beech Institute is a refuge of calm—an idyllic retreat center for meditation and contemplative practice in West Hartford, Connecticut. Here, we envision mindfulness and contemplative practice transforming the daily lives and personal relationships of our growing community.

  • Bill & Susan Morgan | The Holding Environment: Breath

    Daily Reflection Sit Join us daily at 12:00 PM (Eastern) The Holding Environment: The Breath THE HOLDING ENVIRONMENT: BREATH Play Video Play Video 39:05 2020 December 01: Softening up the Breath Play, change it up, create it to be comfortable. Play Video Play Video 37:54 2020 September 17: The Holding Environment: Getting up close to the Breath The breath is Neutral object that we can rest attention on and regulate the system with. Play Video Play Video 38:09 2020 September 15: The Yin and Yang Orientations to the Breath Finding balance between receptivity and agency. Play Video Play Video 38:40 2020 September 14: Enlivening the Breath Bringing heartfelt attention to the breath Play Video Play Video 39:01 2020 May 13: Let the Breath Help You How does the breath want to breathe to re-establish calm stability? Play Video Play Video 39:16 2020 April 23: Blow Life Into Your Wind Instrument This is a wind instrument we have here. Blow life into it! Who else is going to? Play with modulating the breath to bring body-heartmind into ease and harmony. Play Video Play Video 39:37 2020 April 21: Befriending the Breath Get to know the breath. Check in. How does it FEEL right now? The Holding Environment

  • Bill & Susan Morgan | The Four Noble Truths

    Daily Reflection Sit Join us daily at 12:00 PM (Eastern) The Four Noble Truths Daily Sit Categories THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS Play Video Play Video 39:48 2020 December 15: The 4th Noble Truth: Living into Freedom Through the 8-Fold Path The 4th Noble Truth isn’t a list but an invitation to live into freedom by developing the 8 strands of the Noble 8-fold path. Play Video Play Video 39:25 2020 December 14: The Fourth Noble Truth: Highlighting the Eight Folds Highlighting the Eight Folds of the Eight Fold Path, Which is a thorough Treatment plan to address dissatisfaction and mental suffering. Play Video Play Video 38:18 2020 December 10: Cultivate a Taste for Nirodha Notice suffering and see if you can let go of or soften around it. Find ways to reduce its harmful impact. Play Video Play Video 38:59 2020 December 08: Good News! Suffering is Curable Suffering ends when we let go of holding on. Feel the release into more ease. Play Video Play Video 39:36 2020 December 07: Third Noble Truth It is possible to reduce suffering. There is hope; we are not completely hard wired! Play Video Play Video 27:52 2020 December 04: Putting it All Together Where does your inclination lie? What supports settling- body, breath, heart or mind? Play Video Play Video 39:30 2020 December 03: Orienting Attention When setting up the practice of mindfulness the instruction reads, “...set mindfulness to fore”, not your own perspective. Shift out of “your view” and into “a non-judgemental, non-self referential posture of caring attention to the experience of well benign right now, in the present moment”. Play Video Play Video 29:09 2020 November 27: The Second Noble Truth & the Fabled Thanksgiving Celebration Look at causal links of suffering; cause and effect. See craving, see the self rise up and go after what it wants...in the name of a lot of things, with mixed results as an end. Feel it. The gift that mindfulness offers is a path that leads out of suffering, but, as with other spiritual traditions, the path necessarily leads us through suffering, through the “dark night of the soul”, to get to the promised land of peace. Play Video Play Video 39:09 2020 November 26: The Cause of Suffering is to be Seen, Felt, and Known Can you see YOU and your preferences and reactions? Can you FEEL the push-pull-holding on around Your Preferences and the YOU that is identified with them? Can you get the subject-object relationship and the “grip” of energy that keeps this attachment alive? This dynamic is the cause of suffering. Play Video Play Video 39:42 2020 November 24: Craving as False Refuge How we flee from dukkha and run toward the promise or enchantment of sense pleasure. Play Video Play Video 39:34 2020 November 23: The Second Noble Truth Recognizing “clinging” in all of its vicissitudes; it is a deep part of our wiring. Play Video Play Video 39:39 2020 November 19: The Suffering that leads to less suffering. Whether physical, mental or emotional we need to NOTICE and FEEL the suffering that is here in order to DISCERN if it is leading to release or to more tension. Play Video Play Video 40:06 2020 November 17: Cultivating Empathy Through Moral Imagination Moving from the hard-heartedness of reactivity to tender compassion through cultivating empathy grounded in the use of our moral imagination. Play Video Play Video 39:04 2020 November 16: Make a Relationship with the Poignancy of Dukkah We’re wired to try to hold on to things that are inherently impermanent, which causes stress and suffering. Working with this Noble Truth, we hold suffering up to the light and look at it from different angles. Play Video Play Video 40:05 2020 November 12: The First Noble Truth: Seeing Dukkha We have to SEE stress, suffering, unsatisfactoriness in its physical and mental manifestations before we can do anything about it. Load More

  • Bill & Susan Morgan | Annica, Dukkha/Sukkha,Annatta

    Daily Reflection Sit Join us daily at 12:00 PM (Eastern) Anicca, Dukkha/Sukha, Anatta The Daily Sit Categories THE THREE CHARACTERS OF EXISTENCE: ANICC... Play Video Play Video 38:13 2021 August 05: Anicca, Dukkha, Anatta, the Three Characteristics of Existence Anicca dukkha and anatta, is another way of understanding the world we live in. “Nothing personal but everything changes!” Let’s savor the ease and let go of the stress. Play Video Play Video 38:21 2021 August 03: The Problem with Over Orchestrating our Experience Settling back into the mind-body-heart eco-system. Play Video Play Video 38:23 2021 August 02: Not Being Encumbered by Thought It is our relationship to thinking that creates mental distress. Play Video Play Video 2021 July 29: The Dance of, Self & Not Self, of Self & Other, of In Here & Out There We are “complex cats” as Bill likes to say. There is a whole cast of characters that live inside that vie for center stage. In mindfulness, through its friendly posture of caring attention, we can get acquainted with them, as they appear, and learn how to “love them into the fold of mindfulness”, as I am wont to say. Play Video Play Video 2021 July 27: The Kintsugi Craftsperson Like a kintsugi craftsperson, we can love all of the broken parts back into wholeness. All parts are welcomed. Play Video Play Video 2021 July 26: Care for the Self WHILE Caring for Others No compassion fatigue here! From a mindful perspective we can learn to care for ourselves in real time!, for those parts that are hurting, are in pain physically or emotionally, AND/WHILE caring for others’ pain and suffering. Play Video Play Video 2021 July 22: The Dance of Both / And, Rather than Either / Or Mindfulness moves us out of our dualistic perspective into a wider, more inclusive position. Play Video Play Video 2021 July 20: The Problem with Perfectionism How we create more suffering by creating unrealistic expectations. Play Video Play Video 2021 July 19: Selfing is not the Enemy Identifying with self-defeating narratives is what creates Dukkha. Play Video Play Video 2021 July 15: Anatta...Stepping into a Wider Perspective We start to move in the direction of “Anatta” when we step out of our own personal view and into a wider view that includes our own AND others' needs and feelings. Play Video Play Video 2021 July 13: Selfing The Experience of Selfing - on and off the cushion. Play Video Play Video 2021 July 12: Overview of Non-Self: Anatta Correcting common misunderstandings of this core concept. Play Video Play Video 2021 July 08: Why aren't we Content More of the Time? Exploring the creative meditative move toward ease of well being. Play Video Play Video 2021 July 06: "Why?" is a Meditator's Question Things happen, plans change, life is unpredictable. What is uncomfortable? Attend kindly!!! What is comfortable? Notice & appreciate. FEEL for the ease amidst the dis-ease that is present!...the Sukha amidst the Dukkha. Play Video Play Video 2021 July 01: Turning Toward the Difficult with Open Arms Transmuting Dukkha into Sukha. Load More

  • Bill & Susan Morgan | Daily Sit Introduction

    Daily Reflection Sit Join us daily at 12:00 PM (Eastern) Meditation Preparation Daily Sit Categories MEDITATION PREPARATION Play Video Play Video 07:29 Shake It Loose Shake It Loose, recorded 10/30/17 Play Video Play Video 03:58 Shake It Loose - meditation preparation A great preparation for any meditation session

  • Bill & Susan Morgan | The Paramis: Panna (Wisdom)

    Daily Reflection Sit Join us daily at 12:00 PM (Eastern) The Paramis: Panna (Wisdom) The Daily Sit Categories THE PARAMIS: PANNA (WISDOM) Play Video Play Video 13:39 2023 April 26: Wise Moments Appreciate small moments of clarity and insight; fewer bells and whistles, more appreciative moments Play Video Play Video 08:07 2023 April 24: Wisdom is not a Destination It is a path, a path of slow and gradual awakenings, ah-ha moments, understandings that lead to less stress and more ease of wellbeing. . It is conditioned in by the totality of our experience– all of the bumps in the road, all of the detours, the scraped knees, broken hearts, our tendencies toward extremes, and the many moments of feeling our way back to center. It comes from mindful reflection and discernment of what has happened, not once but many times, such that each time a piece of the puzzle of inner learning is revealed. Play Video Play Video 14:14 2023 April 19: Wisdom Grows Through Mindfulness Practice Wisdom changes how we see and relate to ourselves, each other and the world. Play Video Play Video 08:51 2023 April 17: Right View as Wisdom Practices How often is what we see and understand colored by our conditioned perceptions? The way we free ourselves, and “go beyond” our habits and conditioning, is to see ourselves, just as we are and have been. Play Video Play Video 15:06 2023 April 12: Wonder As a Doorway to Wisdom Using Valarie Kaur’s phrase “You are a part of me I do not yet know”, as a way to invite ourselves into the openness and vulnerability of wonder as we connect with all beings, including ourselves. Play Video Play Video 15:57 2023 April 10: Developing Trust in Ourselves, Our Process and the Teachings. In each letting go, from moment to moment, we are developing and deepening trust, and then wisdom more easily arises. Play Video Play Video 13:01 2023 April 05: The Source of Wisdom is a Fruit of Practice As we deepen our meditation practice we become more discerning in a felt and embodied way of our attractions and aversions and preferences. We see with greater clarity how we got caught in stories. We feel for what is harmful and orient in the direction of well-being and more skillfulness. This is one of the ways we cultivate wisdom. Play Video Play Video 14:50 2023 April 03: How We Awaken With the Parami of Wisdom Play Video Play Video 39:16 2021 April 27: Sila, Samadhi, & Panna Skillfulness, meditation or developing the heart mind, and understanding through that development - these three groupings, comprise the whole of the practice of mindfulness & bring about ease of wellbeing. Play Video Play Video 38:48 2021 April 08: The Wisdom of Pain Pain may or may not pass but it is not to be ignored. It is to be seen and cared for, as another would minister to us! Play Video Play Video 37:42 2021 April 06: From Investigation Comes Wisdom THIS kind of wisdom is born out of understandings gleaned from felt experience, not deductive reasoning. Play Video Play Video 38:26 2021 April 05: Orienting with Skillful View and Skillful Intention Setting the compass toward non-harm within and without. Play Video Play Video 38:45 2021 April 01: Mindfulness & Investigation A distinguishing characteristic of mindfulness meditation is that it investigates what is really happening by learning to SEE and FEEL from a non-judgmental posture of caring attention.

  • Bill & Susan Morgan | The Paramis: Sacca (Truthfulness)

    Daily Reflection Sit Join us daily at 12:00 PM (Eastern) The Paramis: Sacca (Truthfulness) The Daily Sit Categories THE PARAMIS: SACCA (TRUTHFULNESS) Play Video Play Video 39:09 2023 July 31: Truthfulness and the Four Noble Truths Using the lens of mindfulness we are encouraged to see and feel and assess, for ourselves, the skillfulness of what we say, think, and do. We are invited into honesty, honest appraisal. What causes suffering; what doesn’t. What leads to happiness; what doesn’t. Play Video Play Video 38:55 2023 July 26: The Truth of the Existential Unavoidables We would rather not reflect on sickness, aging and mortality, but doing so may enhance our sense of gratitude and the preciousness of life. Play Video Play Video 38:52 2023 July 19: The Felt Sense of Truthfulness, Internally and in Relationships Being truthful feels congruent inside. It is peaceful, clear, and has a quiet strength. It is the foundation for deepening relationships. Play Video Play Video 38:46 2023 July 17: Seeing Identification and Selfing As We Practice Truthfulness Noticing when we are identified and caught in selfing can help soften and shift internal barriers to looking more honestly and truthfully at ourselves. Play Video Play Video 39:26 2023 July 12 : Truthfulness and Awareness: Two Parts of the Same Whole. Practicing truthfulness with ourselves means seeing ignorance for what it is; creating “ripples of perception” to see through our conditioning. Play Video Play Video 39:30 2023 July 10: A little White Lie - What’s the Big Deal? When we tell even well-meaning lies to our friends, it compromises our connection to them. It keeps us separate and isolated, Their view of who we are has become fuzzy, It’s as if we put a veil between us. Play Video Play Video 35:40 2023 July 05: Truthfulness As it Aligns With the Four Noble Truth Taking a closer look at the underlying causes of mental distress and the underlying causes of wellbeing. Play Video Play Video 39:53 2023 July 03: Truthfulness as Self-Honesty It takes courage to look honestly at ourselves to see and feel where and how we cause suffering. This kind of awareness creates opportunities to make course corrections.

  • Bill & Susan Morgan | The Paramis: Nekkhamma (Renunciation)

    Daily Reflection Sit Join us daily at 12:00 PM (Eastern) The Paramis: Nekkhamma (Renunciation) The Daily Sit Categories THE PARAMIS: NEKKHAMMA (RENUNCIATION) Play Video Play Video 13:38 2023 March 29: Renouncing Dukkha SEE (your) unskillfulness, FEEL the dis-ease, discomfort, or harmfulness and INTERRUPT these actions/patterns not once but many times. This is how we renounce harmfulness by interrupting the habit as many times as is needed. Play Video Play Video 12:11 2023 March 22: Renouncing Negative Self-Talk 1.Notice these negative moments 2. Don’t believe them 3. Replace with kindness Play Video Play Video 12:07 2023 March 20: Renouncing Worry We all have habits that cause us distress. The longer they’ve been around the harder they are to see and to let go of. How can we begin to interrupt them, not once but many times? Each interruption slowly widdles them away and strengthens resilience in us! Play Video Play Video 18:35 2023 March 15: Renunciation of Internal Habits of Mind Many habits of mind are deeply engrained and cause suffering. Planning mind and hurrying mind are two examples used to describe how to practice ..with patience and kindness Play Video Play Video 15:03 2023 March 13: The Daniya Sutta A poetic dialogue between the Buddha and a layperson named Daniya sheds light on the practice of renunciation. Play Video Play Video 11:02 2023 March 08: Renunciation as a Process The story of my evolving relationship with sports. Play Video Play Video 09:26 2023 March 06: Renunciation is the Art of Letting Go Abandon, and if we can’t, then refrain, restrain, contain, resist---the unwholesome, the harmful, the unskillful, as much as possible so we cause the least amount of harm possible.

  • Bill & Susan Morgan | Meditating in the Time of Coronavirus

    Daily Reflection Sit Join us daily at 12:00 PM (Eastern) 2020 Meditating in the Time of Coronavirus The Daily Sit Categories 2020 Meditating in the Time of Coronavir... Play Video Play Video 39:05 2020 December 01: Softening up the Breath Play, change it up, create it to be comfortable. Play Video Play Video 39:11 2020 December 02: Tenderizing the Heart Kindle the ATTITUDE of kindness and care. Invite the heart into your practice, at the beginning and while you are practicing. This is the atmosphere we want to practice out of! Play Video Play Video 39:30 2020 December 03: Orienting Attention When setting up the practice of mindfulness the instruction reads, “...set mindfulness to fore”, not your own perspective. Shift out of “your view” and into “a non-judgemental, non-self referential posture of caring attention to the experience of well benign right now, in the present moment”. Play Video Play Video 27:52 2020 December 04: Putting it All Together Where does your inclination lie? What supports settling- body, breath, heart or mind? Play Video Play Video 39:36 2020 December 07: Third Noble Truth It is possible to reduce suffering. There is hope; we are not completely hard wired! Play Video Play Video 38:59 2020 December 08: Good News! Suffering is Curable Suffering ends when we let go of holding on. Feel the release into more ease. Play Video Play Video 38:18 2020 December 10: Cultivate a Taste for Nirodha Notice suffering and see if you can let go of or soften around it. Find ways to reduce its harmful impact. Play Video Play Video 39:25 2020 December 14: The Fourth Noble Truth: Highlighting the Eight Folds Highlighting the Eight Folds of the Eight Fold Path, Which is a thorough Treatment plan to address dissatisfaction and mental suffering. Play Video Play Video 39:48 2020 December 15: The 4th Noble Truth: Living into Freedom Through the 8-Fold Path The 4th Noble Truth isn’t a list but an invitation to live into freedom by developing the 8 strands of the Noble 8-fold path. Play Video Play Video 38:39 December 17, 2020: The 8-Fold Path Folded Into Sila, Samadhi, Prajna Non-harm sets the stage, protects me and protects you. Non-harm puts the mind and heart at ease which allows meditation practice to deepen and understandings to arise! Play Video Play Video 39:04 December 21, 2020: Overview of Sila With Emphasis Upon Inquiry and Discernment Orientation is toward non-harm toward other, but also toward self. Play Video Play Video 40:50 December 22, 2020: Sila, an Ethically Attuned Heart Sila expresses itself as an ethically attuned heart that recognizes and rests in its own trustworthiness and the trustworthiness of others. Play Video Play Video 38:05 December 24, 2020: Sila Feels Good! Sila is also the practice of seeing, feelings and appreciating what is already going well. As you move through your day take notice of and appreciate the ease that comes when things run smoothly. Play Video Play Video 39:00 December 28, 2020: Exploring Speech, Both Skillful and Unskillful Taking an inventory of speech before, during and after: how is this landing? Play Video Play Video 40:01 December 29, 2020: Further Exploration of Wise Speech Wise speech, the 3rd path factor of the Noble Eightfold Path, is an expression of our commitment to truth and harmlessness. Feel free to play with wise speech this week so that it aligns with and supports your larger aspiration for freedom. Load More

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