The Robert Beatty Podcast
These are teachings on Mindfulness and contemporary Buddhism by Robert Beatty. Robert is a Dharma and Meditation teacher in the lineage of Ruth Denison and the founder of Portland Insight Meditation Center. For more info visit www.robertbeatty.com
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 47 minutes
- Episodes
- 80
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
7/22/20 - "Going Forth" When Meditation Becomes Essential. Question: When do we follow a wandering mind and when do we dismiss it?
7/21/20 - A Mind that Attaches to Nothing. Question: How to not absorb the suffering of family members.
Being really human: Cultivating Mindfulness
Questions:
1. Mindfulness with pain and anxiety
2. mindfulness in the middle of tragic loss
Sunday Morning Dharma Talk 2020-06-14: Facing Greed Hatred and Delusion: Meditation and Activism
Sunday Morning Dharma Talk 2020-06-07: Do not lose heart: softening the Fight/Flight response
Song: We Americans by the Avett Brothers
Reading: Letter to a Young Activist during Troubled Times by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
PIMC's statement regarding Social Justice and support of #BlackLivesMatter…
Loving-kindness to replace Enemy-Imaging: Morning meditation 2020-06-03
Recitation of the meta sutra: the Buddha’s teachings on loving-kindness
The root of spiritual practice and wisdom: Morning Meditation 2020-06-02
Topics:
Ahimsa.
Non-violence.
Sunday Morning Dharma Talk 2020-05-31: Hatred never ends through hatred
Readings from the Dhammapada, translated by Gil Fronsdal.
The video from Nike that Robert plays at 7:56: https://youtu.be/drcO2V2m7lw
Discussion:
Racial Justice and compassionate response
Choiceless Awareness Insight Meditation Practice: Morning Meditation 2020-05-30
Choiceless Awareness - Insight Meditation and the 4 Foundations of Mindfulness:
1. Body
2. Feeling
3. Mental Formations
4. Mental Objects
Topics:
How to compassionately negotiate with loved ones abou…
The garden of your Heart: Guided self-love meditation
Poem: "No Greater Joy" by Jeff Foster
Topics:
Generosity story
How to relate to praise and blame.
Morning Meditation 2020-05-28: Opening to Everything - including the Shadow
Topics:
Compassion and the Limits of Compassion.
Setting Appropriate Boundaries.
The Wholesome Emotional States.
Getting back to external work after experiencing a deepening of internal inquiry.
How …
Morning Meditation 2020-05-27: Allowing the Heart to Open as We Recognize Impermanence
Poem: "We Should be able to talk": Don Nickerson www.portlandinsight.org/blog
Question: How to work with emotions in their dimensions of feelings and the “story”
Topics:
The pain of parents obser…
Self and the Mystery: Living the Paradox
Dharma Talk: Self and the Mystery: Living the Paradox
Readings:
Rumi: "The Embryo" "Love Dogs" "All day I think about it, then at night I say it..."
Quote:
Reporter (to Carl Jung): "Why do you only…