Wednesday Wake-Up with Gregory Maloof
Ancient teachings of Buddhism through the lens of Western psychology, neuroscience, and the modern human potential movement.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 45 minutes
- Episodes
- 157
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
11/17/21 - Vedanā Part 2: Restaurants and Restrooms
11/10/21 - Finding Bigfoot: Using Vedanā for Liberation
Vedanā is often translated as "feeling" or "sensation". What does Vedanā have to do with clinging and suffering and how can mindfulness of feelings contribute to our liberation? Gregory does a deep …
10/22/21 - Transforming “Us Vs Them” into “We” Using Wise Speech
10/13/21 - The Wandering Mind
The mind likes to think about things, it craves mental stimulation. In order to mature in meditation practice, we must befriend the process of stilling the mind. How much time does the mind spend (…
10/6/21 - The Struggle IS the Practice
We're gonna have "the talk". In this episode, we're going to discuss the "P" word - Practice. Why do we struggle to establish a meditation practice? Even the Buddha himself after enlightenment had…
9/29/21 - Anicca: Understanding and Flowing with Change
Why is change so challenging? How can we befriend change and suffer less from it? From Buddhist insights to the neuroscience, Gregory offers fresh perspectives to thrive in spite of change.
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9/26/21 - Breath Energy
Season 2 Opener!
Gregory talks about breath energy and what it means in relation to vipassana and anapanasati meditation practice. Spoiler - it is more dynamic than you think.
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Sunday Morning Guided Meditation
A guided meditation to orient your Sunday morning and set you off on an awakened and easeful day. Includes background nature sounds.
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Summer Break Announcement
Greetings Wednesday Wake-Up Listeners!
We are taking a much needed break to go on meditation retreat and take rest.
We'll be back again in fall with more podcasts and offerings.
Until then, may you e…
6/23/21 - Am I making progress on the path?
6/9/21 - Guide Posts to Keep Us on Track
This week we conclude a 5 week arch of podcasts (beginning with episode #62 on 5/5/21) covering some of the most challenging aspects of the Dharma. We conclude by discussing two important guide posts…
6/2/21 - Our Aspiration of Non-Violence in the Dharma
5/26/21 - Enlightened Beings in an Unenlightened World
5/19/21 - Inner work vs Outer Work: Is pursuing my own liberation selfish?
5/12/21 - Suffering and its End: What Healing Can We Expect from the Dharma?
What personal, spiritual and psychological change can we expect from meditation practice and how long will it take to get there? Is the Dharma designed to heal things like acute trauma, formal menta…
5/5/21 - Misunderstandings, Misconceptions & Missteps on the Path
Why is it that mindfulness practice and spiritual development can be so challenging? What is it about the human heart-mind that makes giving up harmful habits so difficult. Why is it that we struggle…
4/21/21 -Deconstructing Perception, Fabrication, and Labeling Inner Realities
This week we go through several practical exercises and guided meditations around labeling sensations and emotions as they arise, we take a look at sense door perception, we revisit verbal fabricatio…
4/14/21 - Fabricating our Reality Part 2: Self-Creation Through Self-Talk
When the Buddha reflected on his awakening, he recalled the ability to use mindfulness to notice when his thinking was imbued with sensuality, ill-will, anger, hatred, and cruelty. Conversely, he wa…
Bodily Fabrication Guided Meditation
This is a guided meditation on bodily fabrication.
ABOUT HOST GREGORY MALOOFGregory Maloof is a western Dharma teacher from the Ruth Denison lineage.
If you have been receiving benefit and want to …