Charlotte Center For Mindfulness // Podcasts

Charlotte Center For Mindfulness // Podcasts


Latest Episodes

Sitting Meditation-  Meditation as a Kindness [1.25.25]
February 06, 2025

The Tibetan teacher , Shabkar, said: To meditate without kindness is simply to inflict hardship on yourself. - What does this mean for you in this practice, right now? - - Please Note: The meditati

Bamboo
January 14, 2025

The softness of bamboo and water offer interesting teachings on strength and resilience. In this sharing we explore how bamboo houses and water can inform even the intensity of something like anger.

Sitting Meditation: Welcoming
January 14, 2025

The radical turn of mindfulness meditation is to meet whatever is here, instead of worrying about how to "fix" ourselves to stop whatever is coming up. This practice explores "The Welcoming Prayer." I

Sitting Meditation: Contemplation on Time/Space/Gravity and Now [12.3.24]
December 11, 2024

Gravity is a mysterious connecting force that is always available as an anchor. In this meditation, we open to a contemplation on the relation between time/space/gravity and this moment now. - - Ple

Growing Grass in Sidewalk Cracks [11.27.24]
December 05, 2024

Gratitude is confidence in life itself. In it, we feel how the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own life. -Jack Kornfield - In this sharing we explore both

Sitting Meditation- Gratitude Sitting Practice [11.27.24]
December 05, 2024

Gratitude can be a useful resource, but is not always accessible. In this practice, we start where we are, experimenting and exploring the region of gratitude. -

Relating to Tigers [11.13.24]
December 02, 2024

here are different ways of relating to the "tigers" we encounter in this life. In this sharing we explore two possibilities. - Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our po

Sitting Meditation- The Breath’s Connection with Everything [11.13.24]
December 02, 2024

This is a practice on the sanity of grounding with our inter-relatedness.

Sitting Meditation- Naturally Arising Mindfulness
October 02, 2024

This is a practice in noticing how mindfulness naturally arises on its own and how to tap into that arising skillfully. - - Please note: no talk this week.

Seeing into Basic Goodness, Part 2
September 27, 2024

Continuing with last week's theme based on the short talk and meditation from Yongey Mingur Rinpoche, we explore ways of uncovering insight into our own basic goodness through an Inquiry Practice.