Adventures in Meditating
Adventures in Meditating
Jessica Morey, Jon Roberts, Cara Lai
What in the world is the world we want to live in—and how are we going to get there? Jessica Morey and Jonathan Roberts bring you no-drama dhamma for meditating moderns, wherein we contemplate the Big Ideas gifted us by life through a Buddhist lens, and then take an even deeper dive, in discussion with amazing mindfulness instructors.
Season 2, Episode Seven: “I Walk the Spiral; You Walk the Line: Owning Your Path So As Not to Get Owned By It.”
Jessica Morey returns, just in time to keep Cara Lai and I from burning this disco down.
Mar 16, 2024
1 hr 3 min
Meditation: Meeting needs from the bottom up.
Jessica Morey will offer us a meditation on identifying, being with, and caring for our needs, starting from the fundament--our own bodies.
Mar 16, 2024
11 min
Season 2, Episode Six: “When, How and Whether to Foist the Dharma Upon Your Children, Part I: ‘Sometimes Daddy Needs to Kill.'”
Welcome to the first episode in our series on when—if ever—is the appropriate time to try to make your baby Buddhist. It's probably a terrible idea, but who knows?
Sep 30, 2023
58 min
Meditation: Who even has time to meditate?
In this guided practice, Cara asks, What if we could scrape the very gunk of life off the surface of the present moment and dump it straight into our practice?
Sep 30, 2023
14 min
Season 2, Episode Five: “Resting Buddha Face.”
In today’s episode, we ask, Do humans have an instinctual orientation towards compassion, kindness, and love—or do we only get there by pushing past our darker impulses?
Jul 9, 2023
1 hr 15 min
Meditation: An especially safe space.
Jess leads us in a riff on “metta” or “loving-kindness” practice, in which we are invited to imagine an ideal mother figure, as a way of calling forth the ideal maternal qualities that may be hiding in our own minds and hearts.
Jul 9, 2023
11 min
Season 2, Episode Four: “Talk, Monkey!”
In today’s episode, I seem to have no idea what I’m getting myself into when I ask Jess and Cara to comment on whether my son’s insistence that I speak to him through a monkey-shaped hand-puppet is a peculiarity capable of  revealing any dhamma-adjacent truths.
Apr 30, 2023
39 min
Meditation: A place to rest the mind.
Jess gifts us with a meditation especially designed for parents, who may already feel like they’re figure-skating on the edge of a razor blade, and don’t need their meditation practice to be one more veldt they have to hack through.
Apr 30, 2023
11 min
Season 2, Episode Three: “The Toilet-Mat Tantra.”
In this episode's conversational free-for-all, Jess and I crack open a veritable candy-sack of topics related to the dhamma of parenting.
Mar 4, 2023
58 min
Meditation: Connecting with the profound impermanence of our children.
Jess offers a meditation on learning to love this giant impermanent thing called parenting.
Mar 4, 2023
9 min
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