Contentment Guided Meditations Archive

• Sean Fargo

How to Accept Life As It Unfolds

Sean Fargo leads a guided meditation inviting us to listen to the body, open to our emotions, and accept life as it constantly changes.

• Sean Fargo

Accepting This Present Moment As It Is

Can we accept everything that is present in our experience, be it fear or shame or stillness? Can we open to everything as it is – even if we’re scared? Sean Fargo leads a guided meditation to open to our present moment experience with care, curiosity, and acceptance.

• Gil Fronsdal

Guided Meditation on Contentment Audio

Listen to Guided Meditation on Contentment audio by Gil Fronsdal. Gil Fronsdal is the primary teacher for the “Insight Meditation Center” in Redwood City.

• Spring Washam

True Wisdom Of The Eagle And Condor

Spring Washam talks about the merging of wisdom and compassion: True Wisdom of the Eagle and Condor. How one grows in wisdom and compassion.

• Spring Washam

The Camel Knows The Way: Reflections On Faith

Spring Washam talks about reflections on faith through the story of The Camel Knows The Way. The talk about faith is difficult, especially when you know you don’t know the way.

• Spring Washam

Welcome Your Body Home

Spring Washam talks about the topic Welcome Your Body Home. It’s about the benefits of meditation, how the mind can heal the body through it.

• Sharon Salzberg

Mindful Eating

Sharon Salzberg leads a short meditation on Mindful Eating. Having tea can be a time for meditation. First observe the cup, then the tea. and the smell.

• Rick Hanson

Nowness Wholeness Allness Oneness

Rick Hanson talks about the four words- Nowness, Wholeness, Allness, and Oneness. Let go of the past, future, and present. Live the present without judgment.

Evolutionary Wisdom

Wes Nisker talks about Evolutionary Wisdom. Where am I going? Where did I come from? Who am I? Wes says the story of evolution is full of awe and wonder.

Spiritual Bypassing

Frank Ostaseski talks about Spiritual Bypassing. True spirituality is not something high or mighty, it’s grounded. Frank talks more about Spirituality.

Talk: At Once Here and Disappearing

Frank Ostaseski talks about At Once Here and Disappearing. Life and Dharma is a package deal. He talks about the reality of death and transformation.

• Rick Hanson

Intimacy

Rick Hanson talks about Intimacy, how our experiences in childhood can impact our relationships later in life and what people can do to work with those issues as adults.

• Joseph Goldstein

Morning Reflection

Joseph Goldstein’s 15-minute morning reflection gives three instructions: let go of the past, let go of the future, and let go of the present.

• Joseph Goldstein

Mindfulness Of Knowing

In this talk, Joseph Goldstein explores mindfulness of knowing. To gain it, the first step is becoming mindful of the breath in the normal sea of the mind.

• Joseph Goldstein

Feeling Free

In this talk, Joseph Goldstein speaks about feeling free and the fourth noble truth, the way of practice leading to the end of suffering.

• Joseph Goldstein

Passing Thoughts and Moods

In this talk, Joseph Goldstein speaks about passing thoughts and moods. Nothing is worth clinging to, and we can live independently without clinging to the world.

• Tara Brach

Meditation: Mystery of Aliveness

Tara Brach leads a guided meditation on The Mystery of Aliveness. Sense the body, space, and everything that’s happening. Become aware of the body breathing.

• Tara Brach

Coming Back

Tara Brach leads a guided meditation about Coming Back. In the coming back, the key piece is the quality or attitude that is attending. In mindfulness, this is something that resonates.

• Tara Brach

Standing & Walking Meditation

Tara Brach leads a guided Standing & Walking Meditation. It’s a wonderful way to feel being present when standing or walking or while we’re on our way.

• Tara Brach

Meditation: Inner Space

Tara Brach leads a guided meditation: Inner Space. This is adapted from a meditation called Open Focus. All questions start with can you imagine.

• Gil Fronsdal

How To Be Amazed. Wow!

Gil Fronsdal talks about How To Be Amazed. There are so many things to be amazed by in nature: the cosmos, the mind, consciousness, events.

• Gil Fronsdal

Contentment in Mindfulness by Gil Fronsdal

Gil Fronsdal talks about Contentment. There’s absolutely a lot of things in life to be content with. In mindfulness, contentment leads to a mind in peace.

• Tara Brach

Meditation: Space of Awareness

Tara Brach leads a guided meditation on the space of awareness, a practice of noticing distant sounds in silence, with the mind open like space.

• Tara Brach

Golfing With Monkeys

Tara Brach gives a talk on golfing with monkeys, starting with a story of monkeys proliferating on a golf course in Calcutta. The lesson is how we respond to the proliferation of suffering.

The Art of Surrender

Frank Ostaseski talks about the experience of surrender in The Art of Surrender. Listen to what he says about dying as a time of growth and transformation.

• Mark Coleman

Poetry of Realization

Mark Coleman talks about his long love of poetry and deep interest in awakening in Poetry of Realization. Explore awakening and mindfulness through poems.