analytical meditation

Analytical meditation involves investigating a subject with reflection and reason in order to integrate the meaning of the Dharma and develop virtuous qualities. Posts include instruction and guided meditations.

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Guided Meditations

Love your neighbor

A meditation on extending a sense of care and affection to people whom we find…

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Mind is the source of happiness and suffering

Creating emotional space from situations we find disturbing so as to transform our negative emotions.

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Grateful mind, happy mind

Skillful ways to transform the dissatisfied mind into one that is content and happy.

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Forgiving ourselves

Overcoming low self-esteem and self-criticism to realize our full potential.

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Compassion burnout

Identifying the near enemy of compassion--the feeling of burnout that happens when the self-centered thought…

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Purification: The four opponent powers

A psychological tool for self-forgiveness and making amends for our negative actions of body, speech,…

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Why do we lie?

Reflecting on the actions and mental states that drive us to distort the truth, and…

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Beyond blame

How to move beyond blaming others and ourselves, and how an understanding of causal dependence…

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What is karma?

A meditation for the Daily Dharma Gathering on the four general characteristics of karma.

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Meditation on forgiveness

A third and final meditation for the Daily Dharma Gathering on how to cultivate internal…

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Friends, enemies and strangers

A guided meditation on cultivating equanimity as a way of getting off the emotional roller-coaster…

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Freeing yourself from jealousy

A meditation on working with jealousy on the Daily Dharma Gathering hosted by Susan Piver…

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