Natural Meditation podcast

The standing posture makes it possible to incorporate meditation into our daily lives. It requires practice, but once we get used to it, we can do it almost anywhere — standing on line, at the crosswa...

6 Jun 201725min

Stephan Pende gives a short introduction into the four steps of tonglen and then leads a meditation helping you to connect with your resource, your refuge. This is the first important step in the prac...

3 Jun 201739min

Tonglen can be translated as "taking in and sending out." It is a Buddhist practice that can assist us in countering the human tendency to resist emotional discomfort. Instead of engaging in the habit...

30 Mai 201720min

Tonglen reverses the usual logic of avoiding suffering and seeking pleasure and, in the process, we become liberated from a very ancient prison of selfishness. We begin to feel love both for ourselves...

29 Mai 201723min

The tonglen practice is a method for connecting with suffering - ours and that which is all around us - everywhere we go. It is a method for overcoming fear of suffering and for dissolving the tightne...

26 Mai 201757min

After you have identified the natural face of innermost awareness through ascertaining it in yourself, once it is experienced as underneath you like your own bed, your experiential floor, no matter wh...

17 Mai 201725min

To practice self-inquiry, we can quiet the mind and ask “Who am I?” or “Who is aware right now?” or “Who is listening?” Then we can look gently back into awareness to see what is true. Ultimately, we ...

13 Mai 201742min

No matter what kind of consciousness we might consider, the clear light of innermost awareness pervades it. Ice, even when it is solid and very hard, does not pass beyond the nature of water. In the s...

10 Mai 20171h 8min