Introduction
Sam introduces the playlist.
Foundational Meditation
Learn the foundational meditation that supports all subsequent practices.
The Balancing Act of Meditation
We want to allow everything to happen, without identifying with any of it. That’s tricky.
Being
Drop everything, let all systems power down, and come into a state of ease.
The Context of Experience
We almost always focus on the content, but freedom is in the context.
Meeting Things As They Are
Notice what happens when you meet every experience with love and kindness.
The In-Order-To Mind
“Liberation is not about becoming anything. It’s not about getting anything.”
Investigating Thoughts
Examine the process of thinking and look for the subject of experience.
Working with Thoughts
Identify the thought; examine the evidence; and consider the alternatives.
Beginner’s Mind
Relax into the mind that knows little, but is full of possibilities.
The Joy of Meditation
“The goal is to be present and liberated, to be amused by and care about the world.”
Don't Fight Thoughts
Let go of any attempt to control the thinking process, and observe your mind.
The Irrelevance of a Busy Mind
For five minutes, treat all thought as being entirely meaningless.
Nondual Presence
Move beyond mere images and experience how everything is made of awareness.
What Are We Calling the Self?
We identify not as our bodies but as separate subjects inside of them.
Embodied Awareness
Bring your awareness inward and connect with the sensations of your body.
There Is Only Experience
You aren’t having experience—you are experience.
No Problem to Solve
Ask yourself a simple question—and see if anything changes in your experience.
Solving Problems
Discover why you should learn to enjoy the minor annoyances of life.
Who Am I?
Ask "Who am I?"—and find your way back to the source of all experiencing.
Searching for the Self
The more you seek the thinker of your thoughts, the more you discover its absence.
Dissolving The Concept
Allow your mindfulness to transition into the world of immediate experience.
We Are Ungraspable
Our actions and desires vary over time, yet we imagine a self that remains constant.
Relaxation and Metta
Relax, settle in to your body, and wish yourself well.
The Power of Generosity
Giving to others brings the pleasure of compassion and the freedom of renunciation.
Metta for All Beings
Imagine you can see everyone on the planet—and then wish them well.
Embracing the Life You Have
Your life is the envy of many in the world and would be for many of your ancestors.
Unconditional Kindness
See what it's like to send loving-kindness to a difficult person in your life.
Befriending Oneself
Talk to yourself as you would to a friend: compassionately and constructively.
Welcoming Emotions
Notice how emotions hijack and fixate attention from our natural state of ease.
Emotional Responses
Feelings, good and bad, come from thinking about people, present and absent.
Emotional Opposites
What sensations or images accompany the mention of good and bad emotions?
Colors on the Palette of Life
There is no central self—just patterns, which are perennially in flux.
Awakening Emotions
Learn how to experience an unpleasant emotion from awakened consciousness.
Making Peace with Anxiety
Ease uncertainty by returning to the present and reevaluating your thoughts.
Working with Emotions
Examine the impermanence of difficult emotions through investigative awareness.
Navigating Anger
With mindfulness, we can start to understand the messages of anger—and then act with balance, skill, and appropriateness.
Welcoming Pain
Embrace the full range of sensation, free of labels and stories.
Working with Distress
Present pain is real; future pain is imagined. The difference matters.
Body Scan
Examine every part of your body, while allowing tension to soften and dissolve.
The Nature of the Body
We can't avoid physical discomfort, despite our many attempts to do so.
Working with Painful Feelings
Welcome any painful emotions, and hold them with compassion.
Mindfulness and Physical Suffering
Are there certain experiences, like tinnitus, that are avoidable through mindfulness practice?
Working with Pain
Discover how pain can be a doorway into mindfulness and true equanimity.
Pain
Reflect on how pain immediately acquaints us with "existence itself."
Aversion
Explore the conditioned habit of wanting things to be different than they are.
The Nature of Aversion
Identifying with—and resisting—fleeting thoughts and sensations gives rise to suffering.
Choose Happiness
Notice thoughts and feelings of dissatisfaction—and let them go.
Two Kinds of Happiness
Pleasure and satisfaction are different, and a flourishing life contains both.
Wanting
Find balance and relaxation while exploring the sensation of wanting.
Reexamining Desire
What we do in pursuit of happiness often brings us suffering instead.
Here Now
Go beyond the concept of time to experience what's right here, right now.
The Three Times
Past, present, and future are concepts—and mask the freshness of experience.
Just This!
Dissect your experience of time and discover what's happening now.
Concepts of Time
Our experiences of past and future are mere thoughts in the present moment.
The Three Commitments
Learn Adya's core tenets of meditation.
Accepting What Constrains You
"By completely embracing limitation, you become free within it."
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