Feeding the kindness, bravery, and love in our lives, by Rohan Gunatillake
Meditative Story
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4.6 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Today’s special meditation features a parable from our friends at The One You Feed podcast. If there are two opposing forces working within us, a proverbial good wolf and a bad, how do we foster the positive attributes we’d like to see grow, while keeping the less desirable traits at bay? In celebration of our collaboration with The One You Feed, Rohan leads us through a meditation on how to defang our inner “bad” wolves with compassion, and embody the positive qualities we’d like to cultivate.
Listen to Rohan’s appearance on The One You Feed: https://www.oneyoufeed.net/how-to-embrace-mindfulness-in-everyday-life/
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| 0:00.0 | Today's meditation is based on a wonderful collaboration with our friends at the podcast, The One You Feed. |
| 0:07.0 | If you'd like to hear one of our classic stories, we invite you to visit the rest of our library. |
| 0:13.0 | Thanks for listening. |
| 0:17.0 | At the start of each and every episode of The One You Feed podcast, |
| 0:22.0 | the host The Fantastic Eriksima reads out a parable |
| 0:27.0 | that becomes the jumping off point for the conversation that follows. |
| 0:32.0 | It's a rare and super-beautiful format, |
| 0:37.0 | and the show becomes like an expanding universe with the parable at its origin. |
| 0:43.0 | So how about we hear from Eric as he reads it one more time? |
| 0:58.0 | There's an old parable where a grandparent says to their grandchild, |
| 1:04.0 | in life, there are two wolves at battle within us. |
| 1:09.0 | One is a good wolf, which represents things like kindness and bravery and love, |
| 1:16.0 | and the other is a bad wolf, which represents things like greed and hatred and fear. |
| 1:24.0 | The child paused before looking up and asking, |
| 1:28.0 | well which one wins? |
| 1:30.0 | The grandparent answered, |
| 1:33.0 | The One You Feed. |
| 1:44.0 | Beautiful. |
| 1:47.0 | So inspired by the parable, |
| 1:50.0 | I'm going to take you through a handcrafted meditation based on its story. |
| 1:56.0 | Good stories need good characters, and so let's start there. |
| 2:02.0 | And the character I'd first like to invite into our meditation is the grandchild. |
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