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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Miles Kessler – Week of February 19, 2024

Miles Kessler

Miles Kessler

We’re fortunate that Miles Kessler has generously offered to lead our daily meditation sessions for Europe and the UK. To find out more about Miles, and to view his other contributions to Sangha Live, click here. Recordings will be posted by the end of the day of the live session.

 

This week’s topic is “Fear, Courage, & Surrender On The Path Of The Spiritual Warrior“.

 

What is your relationship to fear? When fear arises, is your tendency to collapse into it, or to resist and struggle with it? Or do you deny it? How do you know if you need to face fear with courage, or simply surrender to its inevitability? What does it mean to practice with fear?

 

In this week of Daily Meditations, you are invited to join Miles in an exploration into the human experience of fear, and how it arises in your life, relationships, and practice. You will learn how to work with fear by cultivating courage and surrender, the core qualities of the Spiritual Warrior.

Shoshin: Beginner’s Mind In Meditation

February 19, 2024

Zanshin: Sustained Mindfulness In Meditation

February 20, 2024

Mushin: No Mind, Fear, & Non-Self

February 21, 2024

Fudoshin: Immovable Mind & Equanimity

February 22, 2024

Terra Incognita: The Unknown Land Is The Path

February 23, 2024

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