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Meditation Practice: Level 1 - Week 1

Introduction to Meditation: Level 1 is part one of our three-part SBT Introduction to Meditation Series. This 3-week program shares the basics of meditation and mindfulness practice.

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00:05:07 | Sat 01 Mar 2025

Meditation Teaching: Level 1 - Week 1

Introduction to Meditation: Level - 1 - is part one of our three-part SBT Introduction to Meditation Series. This 3-week program shares the basics of meditation and mindfulness practice.

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01:07:31 | Sat 01 Mar 2025

Mind-Training - Saturday- Day Six

The bodhisattva intention – Contemplate your wish and determination to awaken for the benefit of all sentient beings. This is the altruistic intention of the bodhisattva, who selflessly, with motherl…

00:04:11 | Sat 01 Mar 2025

Mind-Training - Friday- Day Five

Giving and taking – visualize taking on the suffering of others, while giving back to them your own happinessand love. This is done by imagining breathing in others’ suffering as black smoke, which y…

00:04:08 | Fri 28 Feb 2025

Mind-Training - Thursday- Day Four

Self-cherishing and cherishing others Contemplate how self-cherishing (selfishness/narcissism) isthe cause of great suffering. That by believing that our own needs and happiness are more important th…

00:02:55 | Thu 27 Feb 2025

Mind-Training - Wednesday - Day Three

Today's topic and contemplation is – ‘Exchanging self and other’. Contemplate on exchanging others’ perspectives with your own. Recognize how we all share and suffer from the same human limitations w…

00:02:58 | Wed 26 Feb 2025

Mind-Training - Tuesday - Day Two

The kindness of our mothers and fathers – Imagine and contemplate all beings as your mothers and fathers. Throughout your day, imagine everyone you meet as your mother or father. Try to actually feel…

00:05:05 | Tue 25 Feb 2025

Mind-Training - Monday - Day One

Equanimity (equality) – Visualize three groups of people in front of you: friends on the right, strangers in the middle, and enemies on the left. Contemplate how easily friends can become enemies, en…

00:04:11 | Mon 24 Feb 2025

Sunday Teaching - Mind-Training

SBT Six-Day Mind-Training Program

Mind-training, or more appropriately ‘heart-training’, is a practice with the aim of cultivating and attaining bodhichitta – the altruistic mind of awakening.

SBT Mi…

00:33:35 | Sun 23 Feb 2025

Sunday Teaching - Dealing With Crises

Venerable Tenzin Tarpa is the founder and director of SBT – The Secular Buddhist Tradition. A fully ordained Buddhist monk and student of The Dalai Lama, Venerable Tarpa is a teacher, author, and phi…

00:45:57 | Sun 16 Feb 2025