Trust the open heart
Open to your heart's generosity: use these resources to help you feel what is important to you, love what you love, and let life pour through you for the good of the whole.
Gentleness
Instructions
Jaya Ashmore
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In this text, Jaya gives instructions for a traditional heart-centered Buddhist meditation called metta in Pali or maitri in Sanskrit–usually translated as “loving kindness.”
Metta (maitri in Sanskrit) can be translated from Pali as gentle, friend, or lovingkindness. Cultivating lovingkindness is a crucial counterpart to other spiritual practices such as concentration, awareness, equanimity, and investigation. Traditionally prescribed to relieve fear for those who walked through jungles and slept in caves, metta practice is an antidote for negativity, whether self-hatred, anger, insecurity or resistance to change. Diligent metta practice brings easy sleep, pleasant dreams, protection from danger, a radiant face, a serene mind, and an unconfused death.
Read the full text here.
Metta Meditation
(Jaya Ashmore, 2011, 45 minutes)
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A guided 45-minute metta meditation from an in-person retreat.
The Light of Your Heart Meditation
(Gemma Polo Pujol, 2020, 10 minutes)
A guided 10-minute deep rest meditation.
Discovering Loving Kindness Inside Meditation
(Jaya Ashmore, 2023, 1 hour)
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A longer guided meditation to find your own experiential ways to practice metta meditation.
Let Everything Love You Dharma Talk
(Jaya Ashmore, 2017, 1 hour)
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In this dharma talk, Jaya speaks about the movement from control to receptivity, where what we seek may also be seeking us.
Offering It All Meditation
(Gemma Polo Pujol, 2020, 10 minutes)
A guided 10-minute deep rest meditation.
Compassion Meditation
(Jaya Ashmore, 50 minutes)
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In this guided meditation, Jaya offers instructions to awaken our natural capacity for compassion, or karuna in the Indian Buddhist language.
Metta Through the Body Meditation
(Jaya Ashmore, 30 minutes)
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A guided metta meditation with the invitation to rest into the body.
The Source Meditation
(Gemma Polo Pujol, 2020, 10 minutes)​
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A guided 10-minute deep rest meditation.
"Sending and receiving" Widely and Deeply (Tonglen) Instructions
Jaya Ashmore
In this text, Jaya gives instructions for the Tibetan meditation practice called tonglen.
"Tonglen" Meditation
(Jaya Ashmore, 1 hour)
You can practice tonglen in this guided meditation from an in-person retreat.
Ease with Tender Power Meditation
(Jaya Ashmore, 2010, 45 minutes)
A guided meditation from an in-person retreat.