This talk is about balancing masculine and feminine energies on the path of awakening and includes the story of Yasodhara the Buddha's beloved partner of many lifetimes.
This guided meditation moves through all 16 Steps of Mindfulness of Breathing, Anapanasati sutta. Discover first hand how the flow of the 4 Tetrads leads to letting go.
Anapanasati meditation involves focusing on the natural rhythm of the in-breath and out-breath. In this meditation we explore all 4 tetrads of this highly revered meditation.
This talk centres around awareness, its quality, how it is shaped by our previous experiences and how it can contribute to suffering or freedom in our everyday life.
Tackling the observer and the observed, the witness and the witnessed. The idea of non-clinging to the subject or the object, the responses we can experience.
In this Dharma talk, Renata explores the body as a gateway to presence, wisdom, and freedom, inviting us to rediscover embodied awareness as the ground from which insight, healing, and awakening naturally unfold.
In this Dharma talk, Renata explores embodied investigation as a path of inquiry, revealing how meeting experience with curiosity and presence can deepen insight, compassion, and freedom.
Our relationship with pleasure in meditation is crucial to our waking up, as the Buddha also discovered. This talk explores the role of pleasure and desire on the path, in relation to ānāpānasati, mindfulness with breathing.
All forms are continually arising, maintaining and dissolving due to specific causes and conditions. There is no such thing as a separate independent form.
This talk is of the 16 steps of mindfulness of breathing. It provides a perspective on the 4th tetrad, contemplating impermanence, dispassion, cessation and letting go.
Letting go can be seen as a ripening; and as a profound cooling. These two metaphors help us explore letting go. And while we can't 'do' letting go, we can learn how to set the conditions in which letting go naturally happens.
Settle into this traditional Loving Kindness meditation, using phrases to offer kindness, friendliness and loving kindness in all directions, including our selves. Enjoy!
Join me to explore how the "Story of I" is a central theme in our lives, yet not always that useful. And how we can begin to bring attention to this fabricated story and find a release from seeing the truth.
This recording was made on a meditation retreat at Sangsurya, Byron Bay, NSW. It involves a Dharma talk on the 3rd establishment of mindfulness -contemplating mind on Dec 2, 2024
An exploration of how our views and perception affects and shapes our relationship with others and ourselves. Looking at how mindfulness of views can open the doorway to beauty and love.
