Thoughts on using guided meditations vs silent, and on intentionally developing certain mental and emotional patterns as foundations for awakening-oriented meditation

Topics include the joy of getting over a hump in meditation, practicing in nature, facing sloth-and-torpor, dealing with rationalizations for smoking pot when your Big Bad Issue was opiates, wondering aloud about the people listening to this. Thanks, you're a really unique person if you're reading this description. Like a one-in-a-fucking-billion, literally.

I talk about death, rebirth, why I should practice. Nothing great yet, folks.

Join me at the beginning of a strange journey

We should often reflect on this!

Traditionally chanted in Pali, here is an English translation. Short and sweet.

A reading of Roshi Joan Halifax's guided meditation based on the Vajrayana "Dissolution of the Elements" symbolism, blended with her long experience in hospice care witnessing the death process [almost] first-hand.