Happy Hour: Practicing Equanimity on US Election Day

AudioDharma

Theravada, Buddhist, Meditation, Buddha, Insight, Religion & Spirituality, Metta, Vipassana, Retreat, Dhamma, Buddhism, Dharma

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2024.11.05 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Video of this talk is available at: https://youtube.com/live/Et2AN4WQ7fE. ******* For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org ******* If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/. ******* This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.
0:05.8	Please visit our website at adioderma.org.
0:11.3	Here we go. Great.
0:15.3	So, hello and welcome, everyone.
0:18.1	Welcome to Happy Hour.
0:19.9	Hope you are as well as possible wherever you are in our world on our planet at this time.
0:29.8	So for today's practice, in honor of Election Day in the U.S.,
0:39.3	I wanted to invite us to practice the fourth of the Brahma Viharas,
0:46.6	the fourth of the heavenly abodes,
0:49.2	the first one being metta,
0:51.0	second one,
0:51.6	meta or loving kindness, friendliness,
0:54.2	second one being compassion, second one, meta or loving kindness, friendliness, second one being compassion,
0:56.5	third one being vicarious joy,
0:59.9	the fourth one being equanimity.
1:02.1	So it's a good time to practice equanimity,
1:06.0	which is really related,
1:08.4	closely related to goodwill,
1:10.5	close to related, related to compassion.
1:14.6	And allows us, invites us to have a sense of presence
1:18.7	and stability and peace,
1:22.6	even when things are not stable or peaceful or whatever they might be. So with the level of anxiety that
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from AudioDharma, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of AudioDharma and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.