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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nathan Glyde – Week of Feb 21, 2022

Nathan Glyde

Nathan Glyde

We’re fortunate that Nathan Glyde has generously offered to lead our daily meditation sessions for Europe and the UK. To find out more about Nathan, and to view his other contributions to Sangha Live, click here. Recordings are posted 24 – 36 hours after the live session runs.

 

This week’s topic is Deeply Rooted, Fully Alive

 

This week we will explore the profound, yet accessible teachings of equipoise and equanimity. One of the best images for this sensitive balancing relationship with all things is a deeply rooted and flexible tree in a windy storm. The tree, equipoised, does not resist the wind, bending and yielding to its force. Yet, well nourished from the root, it returns to noble uprightness as soon as the pressure passes.

Balancing Like Tree Beings

February 21, 2022

Flexible Nourishment of Inclusivity

February 22, 2022

Great Network of Tender Roots: Equally Close to All

February 23, 2022

Alive Beyond This and That: Dropping Preference

February 24, 2022

Being Disconnected Makes all the Indifference in the World

February 25, 2022

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