Adventures in Meditating

Mar 16 2024 10 ep. 35 mins 5
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What in the world is the world we want to live in—and how are we going to get there? Jessica Morey and Jonathan Roberts bring you no-drama dhamma for meditating moderns, wherein we contemplate the Big Ideas gifted us by life through a Buddhist lens, and then take an even deeper dive, in discussion with amazing mindfulness instructors.

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Season 2, Episode Seven: “I Walk the Spiral; You Walk the Line: Owning Your Path So As Not to Get Owned By It.”

Mar 16 2024 63 mins  
Jessica Morey returns, just in time to keep Cara Lai and I from burning this disco down.

Meditation: Meeting needs from the bottom up.

Mar 16 2024 11 mins  
Jessica Morey will offer us a meditation on identifying, being with, and caring for our needs, starting from the fundament--our own bodies.

Season 2, Episode Six: “When, How and Whether to Foist the Dharma Upon Your Children, Part I: ‘Sometimes Daddy Needs to Kill.'”

Sep 30 2023 58 mins  
Welcome to the first episode in our series on when—if ever—is the appropriate time to try to make your baby Buddhist. It's probably a terrible idea, but who knows?

Meditation: Who even has time to meditate?

Sep 30 2023 14 mins  
In this guided practice, Cara asks, What if we could scrape the very gunk of life off the surface of the present moment and dump it straight into our practice?

Season 2, Episode Five: “Resting Buddha Face.”

Jul 09 2023 75 mins  
In today’s episode, we ask, Do humans have an instinctual orientation towards compassion, kindness, and love—or do we only get there by pushing past our darker impulses?

Meditation: An especially safe space.

Jul 09 2023 11 mins  
Jess leads us in a riff on “metta” or “loving-kindness” practice, in which we are invited to imagine an ideal mother figure, as a way of calling forth the ideal maternal qualities that may be hiding in our own minds and hearts.

Season 2, Episode Four: “Talk, Monkey!”

Apr 30 2023 39 mins  
In today’s episode, I seem to have no idea what I’m getting myself into when I ask Jess and Cara to comment on whether my son’s insistence that I speak to him through a monkey-shaped hand-puppet is a peculiarity capable of revealing any dhamma-adjacent truths.

Meditation: A place to rest the mind.

Apr 30 2023 11 mins  
Jess gifts us with a meditation especially designed for parents, who may already feel like they’re figure-skating on the edge of a razor blade, and don’t need their meditation practice to be one more veldt they have to hack through.

Season 2, Episode Three: “The Toilet-Mat Tantra.”

Mar 04 2023 58 mins  
In this episode's conversational free-for-all, Jess and I crack open a veritable candy-sack of topics related to the dhamma of parenting.

Meditation: Connecting with the profound impermanence of our children.

Mar 04 2023 9 mins  
Jess offers a meditation on learning to love this giant impermanent thing called parenting.