This is the continuation from Session 009, 010 and 012 where we spoke about what to expect from meditation and the meditation process as laid out by the Buddha himself.

This is the continuation from Session 009 and Session 010 where we spoke about what to expect from meditation and the meditation process as laid out by the Buddha himself.

Meditation for peace and love in times of need.

This is the continuation from Session 009 where we spoke about what to expect from meditation and the meditation process as laid out by the Buddha himself.

In today’s meditation class, we talk about what to expect from meditation and the meditation process as laid out by the Buddha himself.

In today’s meditation class, we talk about the art of being at ease with not knowing.

In today’s meditation class, we talk about compassion and the pillars that support cultivating compassion in ourselves.

In our series of sessions so far, we have talked about the inevitable, impending death (sooner or later) that we all face as beings who have taken birth. From the Buddhist point of view, a human life is rare. And a human life is also one of the best if not the best form of life that is suitable for “taming” the mind which leads to deep inner-peace, joy, and freedom from suffering. We can make great progress in this life if we make the efforts to meditate and to think good thoughts and take good actions to be helpful to others.

Picking up from last week's class where we talked about the importance of finding out what's truly important to us, today we discussed the process of making that what's important to us happen, the process of realizing it in our daily lives.

Using the metaphor of making a fire, we presented how to create the right conditions of our goals and outlined the three pillars that support the experiencing of these goals.

A few days ago, basketball legend Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash at age 41. Someone else unexpectedly passed away recently. Sophia’s grandmother passed away a month ago after years of being bed-ridden. Just about five months ago, Cristof’s godfather’s fight with cancer ended in his mid-seventies.

Watch the video recording of meditation and talk on the big picture view of the Noble Eighfold Path that the Buddha Outlines as important for the attainment of enlightenment (not just mindfulness and meditation). This is our effort the contextualize mindfulness and meditation within the larger framework of the Buddha’s teaching on freedom from suffering.

Watch the video recording of meditation and talk on the big picture view of the Noble Eighfold Path that the Buddha Outlines as important for the attainment of enlightenment (not just mindfulness and meditation). This is our effort the contextualize mindfulness and meditation within the larger framework of the Buddha’s teaching on freedom from suffering.

Watch the video recording of meditation and talk on mindfulness and how it is an important part of the spiritual path.