The Robert Beatty Podcast

Sunday Morning Dharma Talk 2020-06-21: Father's Day

Sunday Morning Dharma Talk 2020-06-14: Facing Greed Hatred and Delusion: Meditation and Activism

Sunday Morning Dharma Talk 2020-06-07: Do not lose heart: softening the Fight/Flight response

Song: We Americans by the Avett Brothers
Reading: Letter to a Young Activist during Troubled Times by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
PIMC's statement regarding Social Justice and support of #BlackLivesMatter 

Morning Meditation 2020-06-05

Shame: Morning Meditation 2020-06-04

Loving-kindness to replace Enemy-Imaging: Morning meditation 2020-06-03

Recitation of the meta sutra: the Buddha’s teachings on loving-kindness

The root of spiritual practice and wisdom: Morning Meditation 2020-06-02

Topics: 
Ahimsa.
Non-violence.

Heartbreak and Social Justice: Morning Meditation 2020-06-01

Sunday Morning Dharma Talk 2020-05-31: Hatred never ends through hatred

Readings from the Dhammapada, translated by Gil Fronsdal.
The video from Nike that Robert plays at 7:56: https://youtu.be/drcO2V2m7lw
Discussion:
Racial Justice and compassionate response
 
 

Choiceless Awareness Insight Meditation Practice: Morning Meditation 2020-05-30

Choiceless Awareness - Insight Meditation and the 4 Foundations of Mindfulness:
1. Body2. Feeling3. Mental Formations4. Mental Objects
Topics:
How to compassionately negotiate with loved ones about safety as Covid restrictions lift
Managing anger and hopelessness
 

The garden of your Heart: Guided self-love meditation

Poem: "No Greater Joy" by Jeff Foster
Topics:
Generosity story
How to relate to praise and blame.

Morning Meditation 2020-05-28: Opening to Everything - including the Shadow

Topics:
Compassion and the Limits of Compassion.
Setting Appropriate Boundaries.
The Wholesome Emotional States.
Getting back to external work after experiencing a deepening of internal inquiry.
How to cope when friends or acquaintances have wildly different views than your own.

Morning Meditation 2020-05-27: Allowing the Heart to Open as We Recognize Impermanence

Poem: "We Should be able to talk": Don Nickerson   www.portlandinsight.org/blogQuestion: How to work with emotions in their dimensions of feelings and the “story”Topics:
The pain of parents observing their teenagers as they make not skillful choices.The sadness of parents who could never speak about their suffering as they went through old age.

Self and the Mystery: Living the Paradox

Dharma Talk: Self and the Mystery: Living the Paradox
Readings:
Rumi: "The Embryo" "Love Dogs" "All day I think about it, then at night I say it..."
Quote: Reporter (to Carl Jung): "Why do you only work with people in their 50s and on?"Carl Jung: "I don't like working with adolescents."