Wednesday Wake-Up with Gregory Maloof

10/21/20 - The Second Foundation – Part 3: Happiness Beyond the Sense Doors

In this week’s talk we explore the aspiration to cultivate pleasure that is not dependent on sensual experience and discuss the transformative power of the deeper nourishing pleasures that are the re…

00:43:46 | Fri 23 Oct 2020

10/14/20 - The Second Foundation – Part 2: Worldly and Unworldy Feelings

This week we talk about the powerful distinction the Buddha makes between feelings that arise from sense door contact that keep us bound in stress, discontent and suffering and feelings that arise di…

00:52:54 | Thu 15 Oct 2020

10/7/20 - The Second Foundation - Part 1: Finding Freedom in Feelings

In this talk we explore how the Buddha saw pleasant, unpleasant and neutral emotion and body sensations as the ground of all thoughts, views and complex mental states. We consider ways that these se…

00:48:04 | Fri 09 Oct 2020

9/30/20 -The Wisdom of Impermanence (Includes Guided Meditation)

This recording is from the Wednesday Wake-Up group meeting on Zoom. It has been edited for clarity and time.

Guided Meditation is at the beginning, to skip to talk, start at 37 min 12 sec.

In this t…

01:26:36 | Mon 05 Oct 2020

9/23/20 - 32-Body Part Meditation Part 2 (Includes Talk and Guided Meditations)

This week's talk provides a highly detailed explanation of how to successfully engage in this famous but often undervalued meditation practice. We explore how to use this practice to explore the wisd…

01:34:59 | Sat 26 Sep 2020

9/16/20 - The Hinderance of Worry (Includes Opening Meditation)

This recording includes the opening guided meditation. If you would like to skip it and head direct to the Dharma talk, skip to 36 min, 23 sec in.

In this talk, we explore how to use the wisdom of…

01:30:05 | Mon 21 Sep 2020

32-Part Body Meditation - Part 1 - (Guided Meditation Only, No Dharma talk)

A guided meditation that walks you through the steps of how to use the first parts of 'hair, nails and teeth' as objects of concentration to explore suffering, impermanence and not-self. (See episode…

00:31:12 | Thu 03 Sep 2020

9/2/20 - 32-Part Body Meditation -Part1- with Guided Meditation

This week's podcast includes a short overview of the 32-body part meditation followed by an in depth guided meditation that walks you through the steps of how to use the first parts of 'hair, nails a…

00:49:59 | Thu 03 Sep 2020

8/26/20 - The Elemental Self: The Earth, Wind, Fire & Water Within

This week’s talk is a primer on the 32-body part meditation. We talked about various ways to use the traditional 4 elements as meditative objects and engaged in a 20-minute guided elemental meditatio…

00:48:02 | Thu 27 Aug 2020

8/19/20 - Why are we Meditating? (Includes guided meditation with Metta practice)

Without a clear understanding of how meditation works it is very easy to get side tracked or lost in our practice. When this happens meditation can quickly become routine, boring and dare we say, min…

00:52:20 | Thu 20 Aug 2020

8/12/20 - The Power of Presence Part 4: Breathing out the past, Breathing in the future

Today we conclude our 4-part series exploring how we can access the interconnectedness of the past, present and future to free ourselves from stress and suffering while planting seeds of joy and awak…

00:30:03 | Thu 13 Aug 2020

8/5/20 - The Power of Presence Part 3: The Healing Wisdom of Karma, Not-Self & Equanimity

This is the third part of a four-part series on the power of presence. In this week's talk we explore how to use the insights of Karma, Not-Self, and Equanimity as tools to heal the hurt from our pas…

00:34:27 | Thu 06 Aug 2020

7/29/20 - The Power of Presence Part 2: The First Noble Truth

This is the second part of a four-part series on the power of presence. In this week’s talk we continue the second part of our journey by exploring how comprehending the First Noble Truth of Sufferin…

00:42:48 | Thu 30 Jul 2020

7/22/20 The Power of Presence Part 1: Doorway to the Past, Gateway to the Future

This is the first part of a four-part series on the power of presence. In this talk we reviewed the various ways that mindfulness can be used to enter the present moment as a dynamic way of changing …

00:36:11 | Thu 23 Jul 2020

7/15/20 - Grief & Loss during the pandemic: Healing Lessons from the Dharma

We are living through an unprecedented time of loss. Loss of jobs, loss of health, loss of connection and belonging, loss of confidence and loss of trust just to name a few. It is an ideal time for …

00:43:15 | Sun 19 Jul 2020