Melissa McKay - "Vipassana and Metta Meditation"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

Yoga, Health & Fitness, Yogateacher, Alternative Health, Yogaindustry, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Melissa McKay, meditation teacher and old friend of J, talks about the practice and purpose of vipassana and metta meditation. They discuss the center Melissa had in Brooklyn and her son, her teachers from Burma and the ways she learned from them, entry points and deeper teachings, meditation as an intentional habituation of the mind, accessibility and the many different containers for meditation, easing stress and suffering, enlightened beings and heavenly realms, and the enduring power of loving kindness and compassion.

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0:00.0	Okay, we just did it. We just bridged a vast chasm. The moment of time and space in which I sit here in my attic talking into this
0:25.0	microphone. And the moment in which you just hit play and are listening have come together.
0:33.1	It's a beautiful thing. This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
0:39.2	My name is Jay Brown.
0:40.8	Welcome to you if you're new.
0:43.4	Everyone else, thanks for coming back around.
0:46.8	How are you feeling?
0:48.3	How are you holding up?
0:51.1	Just now before I hit record,
0:56.3	I was thinking to myself,
0:59.0	what's going on with me right now? I was trying to feel into the moment, and a word popped into my mind.
1:04.6	The word was flux.
1:07.0	So I looked it up.
1:10.0	And the word flux has two simultaneous meanings.
1:15.4	The first is what I had in mind, like a state of flux, as in continuous change or fluctuations.
1:25.1	But the word flux also means diarrhea, as in a steady, continuous flow of shit.
1:40.5	See, doesn't it work perfectly?
1:48.0	Aren't both of those things at play right now?
1:58.2	I have to find ways to make myself laugh about it, y'all, or I just feel too overwhelming and scary.
2:04.8	I've been successfully following my own directives that I've been spouting off about here on the show, setting better boundaries, making sure I'm having time where I'm filling my head
2:13.1	with the beauty and the awe and the majesty of nature and this life that I am experiencing.
2:22.5	At the same time, I don't want to be uninformed about what's happening in our societies.
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