Wild Heart Meditation Center

From the recent, Wild Heart Spring Retreat, at Heartwood Refuge in North Carolina, Mikey offers a talk on "Happiness in the Here & Now" on the first night of the retreat. He speaks to the difference …

In this episode Mikey Noechel discusses MN 62 "The Greater Discourse of Advice to Rahula". This discourse can be viewed here:

https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.062.than.html

Wild Heart Me…

Guest Teacher, Martine Batchelor, joins us to talk about renunciation. She talks about breaking free from habits, not just our behavioral habits, but our mental habits of reactivity. Enjoy!

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In this episode Kit Canlas offers a talk on sukkha or otherworldly happiness. 

Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non-profit Buddhist community based in Nashville, TN. https://www.wildheartmeditationc…

In this episode, Andrew reflects on the five hindrances - sensual desire, aversion, lethargy, restlessness, and doubt - and how, if given adequate attention, they are noble companions in the developm…

In this episode Mikey Noechel offers a talk and meditation on loving kindness for addiction recovery. Mikey explores how loving kindness can be used as a method to approach addiction as well as how t…

There is the happiness of temporary satisfaction that comes from worldly pursuit - sensory pleasure, material gain, praise, validation, and acknowledgment - and then there is the happiness that comes…

In this episode Mikey Noechel offers a talk and meditation on equanimity. Equanimity is the quality of living in the middle of life's extremes of pleasure and pain, gain and loss, praise and blame, f…

In this episode, Andrew talks about "why" we practice mindfulness. Adopted from Shinzen Young's teaching, Andrew offers a description of some of the basic skills that we develop through a daily mindf…

In this episode Mikey Noechel discusses ways to meet Mara or difficult mind states with compassion. 

Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non-profit Buddhist community based in Nashville, TN. https://ww…

In this episode, guest teacher, Chris Benitez from Albuquerque Insight Meditation Center discusses "Imposter Syndrome". Enjoy!

Wild Heart Meditation Center in a non-profit Buddhist community based in…

In the episode Mikey Noechel offers a guided meditation of the five remembrances which are:

I am subject to aging, have not gone beyond aging.

I am subject to illness, have not gone beyond illness.

I am…

This is a special episode from the Buddhist Recovery Podcast with Dave Smith. Andrew's long-time friend and teacher, Dave Smith, interviews him about all things Buddhism and Recovery. enjoy!

Wild Hea…

In this episode Mikey Noechel explores the topics of reincarnation, rebirth, transmigration of the soul and rebirth linking consciousness. This episode is inspired by the Netflix series Surviving Dea…

In this episode, Andrew discusses the essential Buddhist teachings of the Five Aggregates and Anatta ("not-self"). Rather than a philosophical or intellectual undertaking, the Buddha encourages medit…

In this episode Mikey Noechel offers a reflection on the Metta Sutta, the Buddha's discourse on loving kindness. 

Metta Sutta:

This is what should be done

By one who is skilled in goodness,

And who knows…

In this minisode, Andrew breaks down Alan Watts teaching on the "Backwards Law: the desire for a more positive experience is a negative experience, and the acceptance of a negative experience is a po…

This is a Dharma Minisode on Buddhist Ethics and the 5 precepts! We are going to be releasing Dharma talks each week, some of which will be live and some will be shorter recorded talks on a variety o…

In this episode, Andrew discusses the Buddhist Heart Practice of "Compassion". He speaks about compassion as a "radical act" that comes from letting go of fixing or solving our problems and coming in…

In this episode, Andrew speaks on the topic of "Breaking the Addiction to the Thinking Mind". He discusses what happens when we get lost in thought, and how meditation helps us to break out of the re…