Wild Heart Meditation Center's podcast offers an assortment of talks given on topics as they relate to Buddhist practice. Wild Heart teachers Mikey Livid & Andrew Chapman, along with other group facilitators share their experience with Buddhist practice, specifically offering practical teachings and instructions for our everyday, ordinary, lives.
In this episode, Andrew discusses one of the most fundamental Buddhist teachings, "The 3 Marks of Existence": the impermanent, impersonal, and imperfect nature of reality.
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Andrew offers the final dharma talk of the retreat on the topic of "awakening".
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On the second full day of the retreat, Mikey talks about the practice of self-compassion.
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In this series of talks from the recent WHMC retreat, Andrew offers a talk on the 3rd Foundation of Mindfulness. Enjoy!
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In this series from the recent WHMC retreat, Mikey offers a dharma talk on the topic of "seeing clearly & responding wisely". Enjoy!
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On the first afternoon of the recent WHMC retreat, Andrew offers an overview and instructions on Metta - loving-kindness meditation.
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In this series of talks from WHMC's recent residential retreat, Mikey starts off the first morning with instructions on establishing the first foundation of mindfulness - breath and body awareness.
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In this episode, Andrew discusses the 7 factors of awakening: mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity.
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In this episode, Andrew discusses many facets of "Wise Effort"-- the sixth factor of the eightfold path. He talks about the importance of "resolve" and having a strong commitment to spiritual practic…
Andrew continues on the theme of "Wise View", speaking on the topic of "The Four Noble Truths".
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Andrew discusses the first of the eightfold path factors, "Wise View". He discusses the role of meditation in breaking out of habitual patterns of reactivity in our lives.
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Mikey Noechel offers a guided meditation on equanimity, or balance between pleasure and pain.
I feel you.
I know you.
I care about you.
I appreciate you.
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Mikey Noechel offers a guided meditation on gratitude towards self.
May I appreciate the joy and happiness I experience.
May my happiness and success continue to grow.
May I be filled with gratitude.
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Mikey Noechel offers a guided meditation on compassion towards self.
May I open up to the pain and difficulties in my life.
May I care for the pain and difficulties in my life.
May I be free from suffer…
Mikey Noechel offers a guided meditation on loving kindness towards a benefactor.
May you be at ease.
May you be at peace.
May you be kind and gentle with yourself.
May you be filled with loving kindness…
Andrew discusses the 4th factor of the Buddha's eightfold path, "Wise Action". In order to bring better clarity to discerning the skillfulness and appropriateness of our behavior, we must first look …
Mikey Noechel offers a guided meditation on loving kindness towards self.
"May I be at ease.
May I be at peace.
May I be kind and gentle with this experience.
May I be full of loving kindness."
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In this episode Katie Burke reads the Metta Sutta, the discourse on Loving Kindness.
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Andrew discusses the Buddha's teaching on the "middle path", as well as the personal experience of losing and rediscovering one's spiritual path.
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In this episode, Andrew speaks to the necessity of developing a long-enduring mind on the path of awakening, and a few of the experiences that we will need to endure along the path.
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