I Love You Keep Going with George Haas

Continuing our discussion from last week, we discuss the different types of things that get in the way of exploration!

• Join us live online every Thursday for a Dharma talk and extended sit. More info at ⁠https://www.mettagroup.org/services⁠
• Find out why attachment repair is the easiest mind blow on the planet. Sign up for our free video resource at ⁠https://www.mettagroup.org/start-here⁠
• Join our new half-day virtual retreat “Home for the Holidays from the Attachment Perspective” on November 16th. Sign up at ⁠https://www.mettagroup.org/retreat-family-archaeology⁠

We discuss the upcoming holiday season and how one can navigate familial relationships or whether it is worth it to attempt to salvage relationships that have abusive characteristics.

• Join us live online every Thursday for a Dharma talk and extended sit. More info at https://www.mettagroup.org/services
• Find out why attachment repair is the easiest mind blow on the planet. Sign up for our free video resource at https://www.mettagroup.org/start-here
• Join our new half-day virtual retreat “Home for the Holidays from the Attachment Perspective” on November 16th. Sign up at https://www.mettagroup.org/retreat-family-archaeology
  

What are the common ways exploration is neglected during the early phase of life and how can these symptoms show up in adulthood? We discuss this and more!

🍃 Are you worried about seeing family this Holiday season?

🔑 Join us LIVE on November 16th for a new virtual half-day retreat Family Archaeology: Home for the Holidays from the Attachment Perspective

Return home without the negative reactivity, tension or old patterns haunting your holidays. Enjoy your time together from a place of clarity, compassion and happy engagement.

Join us in this half-day retreat to understand your family system better, reconfigure your place within it, and engage the holidays together fully without the friction, old patterns or legacy charge.

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https://www.mettagroup.org/retreat-family-archaeology/#register

What do you need so that your attachment system settles? We discuss strategies for Preoccupied People.

🍃Ready to go beyond attachment repair and dive more deeply into your exploration? This is the path to living your meaningful life.

🔑 Join us LIVE on October 26th for a virtual half-day retreat entitled Through the Lens and Stomped on by Photoshop: A Deep Dive into Exploration and Experimental Photography

This is your space to dive into exploration more fully (which is a great next step, if you’ve gone through our Meditation x Attachment Level One or Two programs, Meditation x Addiction programs, or even the 1.1 mentorship track.)

There will be space to learn more concepts, integrate, ask your questions LIVE, and practice meditation real-time in support of your exploration.

Sign up now:

⁠https://www.mettagroup.org/retreat-exploration

Have you ever seen a young child explore there surroundings and then report back to their care-giver their findings?

🍃Ready to go beyond attachment repair and dive more deeply into your exploration? This is the path to living your meaningful life.

🔑 Join us LIVE on October 26th for a virtual half-day retreat entitled Through the Lens and Stomped on by Photoshop: A Deep Dive into Exploration and Experimental Photography

This is your space to dive into exploration more fully (which is a great next step, if you’ve gone through our Meditation x Attachment Level One or Two programs, Meditation x Addiction programs, or even the 1.1 mentorship track.)

There will be space to learn more concepts, integrate, ask your questions LIVE, and practice meditation real-time in support of your exploration.

Sign up now:

⁠https://www.mettagroup.org/retreat-exploration

Today we discuss how to know if a relationship is healthy for you and how to leverage attachment repair to navigate work challenges.

🍃Ready to go beyond attachment repair and dive more deeply into your exploration? This is the path to living your meaningful life.

🔑 Join us LIVE on October 26th for a virtual half-day retreat entitled Through the Lens and Stomped on by Photoshop: A Deep Dive into Exploration and Experimental Photography

This is your space to dive into exploration more fully (which is a great next step, if you’ve gone through our Meditation x Attachment Level One or Two programs, Meditation x Addiction programs, or even the 1.1 mentorship track.)

There will be space to learn more concepts, integrate, ask your questions LIVE, and practice meditation real-time in support of your exploration.

Sign up now:

⁠https://www.mettagroup.org/retreat-exploration

Why should you heal your attachment? Is it worth the effort? What will it look like to have achieved this? We discuss this and more on this week's episode.

🍃Ready to go beyond attachment repair and dive more deeply into your exploration? This is the path to living your meaningful life.

🔑 Join us LIVE on October 26th for a virtual half-day retreat entitled Through the Lens and Stomped on by Photoshop: A Deep Dive into Exploration and Experimental Photography

This is your space to dive into exploration more fully (which is a great next step, if you’ve gone through our Meditation x Attachment Level One or Two programs, Meditation x Addiction programs, or even the 1.1 mentorship track.)

There will be space to learn more concepts, integrate, ask your questions LIVE, and practice meditation real-time in support of your exploration.

Sign up now:

https://www.mettagroup.org/retreat-exploration

We continue last week's discussion on exploration and how one can learn how to explore late in life.

Download our free online video resource ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠"The Main Signs of Attachment Disturbance" now. In this two-part video course, you'll learn how to identify the core disturbances, and how combining meditation and attachment work can help you move beyond the challenges and live a truly meaningful life. Begin your journey today at ⁠⁠⁠https://www.mettagroup.org/start-here⁠⁠⁠!

On this episode we discuss exploration and how one can learn how to explore late in life.

Download our free online video resource ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠"The Main Signs of Attachment Disturbance" now. In this two-part video course, you'll learn how to identify the core disturbances, and how combining meditation and attachment work can help you move beyond the challenges and live a truly meaningful life. Begin your journey today at ⁠⁠https://www.mettagroup.org/start-here⁠⁠!

On this episode we discuss the attachment theory perspective on 'neediness' and how to tell if you are being needy or If your needs are right-sized.

Download our free online video resource ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠"The Main Signs of Attachment Disturbance" now. In this two-part video course, you'll learn how to identify the core disturbances, and how combining meditation and attachment work can help you move beyond the challenges and live a truly meaningful life. Begin your journey today at ⁠https://www.mettagroup.org/start-here⁠!

We continue our discussion on living a fulfilling meaningful life!

Half-Day Virtual Retreat: Exploration

A Deep Dive into Primary and

Secondary Exploration +

Live a More Meaningful Life

Saturday, September 21st 9am - 1pm PT / 12pm - 4pm ET

In this half-day retreat, you’ll walk away with…

• Understand where the meaningfulness in life comes from
• Understand how to uncover your own authentic exploration
• Learn the complications that impact each attachment strategy (and how to move beyond the blocks so that you can explore)
• Practice real-time meditation guided by George Haas, Founding Teacher of Mettagroup

We unpack this phenomenon and define primary vs. secondary exploration. We discuss different types of attachment strategies that lean more toward secondary exploration, and how this can impact your fulfillment and other areas of life.

Half-Day Virtual Retreat: Exploration

A Deep Dive into Primary and

Secondary Exploration +

Live a More Meaningful Life

Saturday, September 21st
9am - 1pm PT / 12pm - 4pm ET

In this half-day retreat, you’ll walk away with…

• Understand where the meaningfulness in life comes from
• Understand how to uncover your own authentic exploration
• Learn the complications that impact each attachment strategy (and how to move beyond the blocks so that you can explore)
• Practice real-time meditation guided by George Haas, Founding Teacher of Mettagroup

What does it mean to wait to commit? What are you looking for during that time? What are the normal tendencies of rushing in and why are they detrimental?

Sign up today for Meditation x Attachment Level Two!

The Level Two program is a deep immersion into further learning and skill development, designed for earning secure functioning. This offers you a blend of learning key concepts across attachment theory and meditation, while also practicing the techniques in both a supportive group as well as within private, custom mentorship.

Next cohort begins: September 6th (1st & 3rd Fridays)

Sign up at: ⁠https://www.mettagroup.org/meditation-x-attachment-level-two

We discuss signs of anxious attachment in the career or workplace context. What are common beliefs, behaviors and phenomena that come up? What challenges do you face?

Sign up today for Meditation x Attachment Level Two!

The Level Two program is a deep immersion into further learning and skill development, designed for earning secure functioning. This offers you a blend of learning key concepts across attachment theory and meditation, while also practicing the techniques in both a supportive group as well as within private, custom mentorship.

Next cohorts begin:
September 6th (1st & 3rd Fridays)

Sign up at: https://www.mettagroup.org/meditation-x-attachment-level-two

The Earthquake and the Tsunami of Terrible Sadness: 3 Best Practices for Weathering the Storm and Resiliently Navigating the Attachment Repair Journey

Develop the skills for sustaining long term abstinence and harm reduction.

In Level Two, we focus on developing a meditation practice and diving deep into the curriculum of Level One, all in support of ending the perpetual relapse cycle, as well as healing the root issues that fuel our addiction. When we do this, more emotional empowerment, authentic purpose, and congruence becomes possible.

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What is the difference between a cognitive practice that is based around mentalizing and a procedural practice that relies on meditation and other repeated exercises.

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This is for you if...

You think something is wrong with youand you want to fix it.

You desire greater connection, intimacy, and support in relationship(but don’t know how to find a partner who is willing to show up for you in that way)

You’re tired of the dysfunctional relationships patterns and you’re ready to develop new habits, more meaningful connections and heal once and for all.

You want to start a family, but there’s a missing piece.You want to share this life experience with a supportive partner who wants the same things, and you don’t know how to find that person who is ready to commit.

You’re ready to date people who can make a commitment to youbut you consistently date people who are unreliable, unavailable and avoidant.

You’re interested in truly being collaborative and committed,and building a life with someoneand want to learn what qualities to develop, what actions to take and how to shift your mind to embody this type of relationship.

Join George Haas for this online workshop on Friday, 7/26! Sign up at: https://www.mettagroup.org/workshop 

What constitutes a secure relationship? How does mentalizing support with this?

Sign up today for Meditation x Attachment Level Two!

A 6-month meditation-based virtual group and 1:1 mentorship program designed to usher you into living a more meaningful life.

Next cohorts begin:
Cohort 1: August 6th (1st & 3rd Tuesdays)
Cohort 2: September 6th (1st & 3rd Fridays)

Register your spot here: https://www.mettagroup.org/meditation-x-attachment-level-two

Sign up for How To Date Like A Secure Person Even If You're Not (Yet)!

This is for you if...

You think something is wrong with you
and you want to fix it.

You desire greater connection, intimacy, and support in relationship
(but don’t know how to find a partner who is willing to show up for you in that way)

You’re tired of the dysfunctional relationships patterns
and you’re ready to develop new habits, more meaningful connections and heal once and for all.

You want to start a family, but there’s a missing piece.
You want to share this life experience with a supportive partner who wants the same things, and you don’t know how to find that person who is ready to commit.

You’re ready to date people who can make a commitment to you
but you consistently date people who are unreliable, unavailable and avoidant.

You’re interested in truly being collaborative and committed,
and building a life with someone
and want to learn what qualities to develop, what actions to take and how to shift your mind to embody this type of relationship.

Join George Haas for this online workshop on Friday, 7/26! Sign up at: https://www.mettagroup.org/workshop 

Do you experience anxious attachment in career or workplace contexts? What are common beliefs, behaviors and phenomenon that come up? What challenges do you face?

Where addiction and attachment theory meet.

In Meditation x Addiction Level One, we directly address the underlying cause of addiction and help you uproot the native attachment conditioning, in support of relapse prevention and long-term, sustainable repair. 

⁠Sign up today!

A discussion on emotional regulation strategies learned from family systems, where unhealthy coping mechanisms like anger, sadness, or fear are modeled. These strategies generate excessive emotional responses that don't match the present situation. Techniques like noting feeling states can help gain clarity on one's emotions and sensations in the body. Dismissing or avoidant attachment styles make it difficult to experience emotions, while preoccupied styles lead to heightened emotional chaos. Meditation practices like focusing on the breath can increase awareness of subtle emotional experiences in the present moment are essential to the recovery process.

Where addiction and attachment theory meet.

In Meditation x Addiction Level One, we directly address the underlying cause of addiction and help you uproot the native attachment conditioning, in support of relapse prevention and long-term, sustainable repair. 

Sign up today!

Captured live for the Sunday Sangha series from Sangha Live, George discusses Attachment Theory in the context of Buddhist Theravada Practice, exploring the traditional Buddhist path to liberation using descriptions of Attachment conditioning as a way to understand obstacles to practice.

Download our free online video resource ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠"The Main Signs of Attachment Disturbance" now. In this two-part video course, you'll learn how to identify the core disturbances, and how combining meditation and attachment work can help you move beyond the challenges and live a truly meaningful life. Begin your journey today at https://www.mettagroup.org/start-here!

Find out more about Sangha Live at https://sangha.live/

Sign up for the Meditation x Addiction Workshop on June 21st - ⁠⁠click here.⁠

You’ll learn about the Meditation x Addiction approach to substance use disorders. It’s an effective strategy for relapse prevention and we’ll introduce you to how students address addiction through the attachment lens. You’ll learn about the four modules that are the next step in this journey: craving and urging; stress, anger and depression; persistent negative emotions; and difficult interpersonal relationships.

You’ll understand how this evidence-based system combines ongoing meditation practice, the relapse pattern theory of G. Alan Marlatt, PhD and John Bowlby’s psychological model of Attachment Theory.

Addiction can strain or damage relationships with loved ones, and repairing trust and communication can be a long and difficult process. What can one expect on that path?

addressing addiction through the attachment lens.

Sign up for the Meditation x Addiction Workshop on June 21st - click here.

Share about this phenomenon and specific phase of addiction recovery journey. Address other approaches to recovery and how your approach is different. Offer hope and possibility: What dream outcomes are they holding out for, that haven't yet been realized at this phase of recovery? What is possible with your approach?
The techniques and strategies covered in Meditation x Addiction™ are specifically designed to support healing for people dealing with addiction and addiction-related issues. As evidenced by George Haas's own personal path, mindfulness meditation-based skills training can offer a truly effective behavioral change in the realm of addiction. Sign up for the waitlist now: https://www.mettagroup.org/workshop-addiction

How to Get off the Relapse Wheel: Where Addiction, Attachment Repair and Meditation Meet

We're very happy to offer a new free online video resource ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠"The Main Signs of Attachment Disturbance".⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠In this two-part video course, you'll learn how to identify the core disturbances, and how combining meditation and attachment work can help you move beyond the challenges and live a truly meaningful life.Begin your journey today!

3 Things that Support Your Exploration (and 3 Things that Corrode It) Based on Your Attachment Strategy.

We're very happy to offer a new free online video resource ⁠⁠⁠⁠"The Main Signs of Attachment Disturbance".⁠⁠⁠⁠In this two-part video course, you'll learn how to identify the core disturbances, and how combining meditation and attachment work can help you move beyond the challenges and live a truly meaningful life.Begin your journey today!

Discuss our present and future with AI, and the impact it’s having on originality. What do you forecast will happen to authenticity? How does this threaten our capacity to be unique, original or different from others? Is this important on our separate and shared paths of living a meaningful life?

We're very happy to offer a new free online video resource ⁠⁠⁠"The Main Signs of Attachment Disturbance".⁠⁠⁠In this two-part video course, you'll learn how to identify the core disturbances, and how combining meditation and attachment work can help you move beyond the challenges and live a truly meaningful life.Begin your journey today!

How does exploration differ depending on the attachment strategy? What opens the door to exploration?

Exploration is at the root of what it’s all about! 
That’s why I’m deeply excited and grateful to officially announce...
My new biannual magazine entitled Place (plās) is now available! 
Subscribe today, and you’ll receive my brand new photography magazine in the mail twice a year. You’ll receive a complimentary issue right away, followed by two issues in June and December 2024.

Share about your transformation story. What was it like before? What kind of support did you seek before discovering attachment repair? When did everything come together for you? How long did the healing take once you started on this journey? Share about your 3 pillar approach and any studies and research done that informs your meditative attachment repair approach.

We're very happy to offer a new free online video resource ⁠"The Main Signs of Attachment Disturbance".⁠In this two-part video course, you'll learn how to identify the core disturbances, and how combining meditation and attachment work can help you move beyond the challenges and live a truly meaningful life.Begin your journey today!

What can you do when you are raised in a family without receiving love and attention from your mother?

We're very happy to offer a new free online video resource "The Main Signs of Attachment Disturbance".

In this two-part video course, you'll learn how to identify the core disturbances, and how combining meditation and attachment work can help you move beyond the challenges and live a truly meaningful life.
Begin your journey today!

We discuss the preliminary steps and decisions (no killing, no stealing, no harmful sexual conduct, no harsh/false speech, and no intoxicants the lead to heedlessness) necessary for to begin the path to enlightenment and what they actually mean!

Sign up now for our upcoming Level One Intensive beginning April 6!⁠⁠

This live group program offers instruction in Buddhist theory, Attachment Theory, and in-depth meditation techniques, all designed to help you get your needs met, pursue your authentic passions, and emotionally regulate along the way. In this program, you’ll learn how to develop secure relationships, uproot past attachment conditioning, as well as work through conflict resolution strategies. This program draws deeply on Daniel P. Brown's Ideal Parent-Figure (IPF) Attachment Protocol, and offers you space to develop empowering, reparative mental and somatic skills, while also tapping into a supportive community of people on the shard path of cultivating a meaningful life.

People in the West often want to skip steps in their practice to shorten the distance to enlightenment, but what is enlightenment and what would it mean to find it?

Originally recorded 3/07/24

⁠Sign up now for our upcoming Level One Intensive beginning April 6!⁠

This live group program offers instruction in Buddhist theory, Attachment Theory, and in-depth meditation techniques, all designed to help you get your needs met, pursue your authentic passions, and emotionally regulate along the way. In this program, you’ll learn how to develop secure relationships, uproot past attachment conditioning, as well as work through conflict resolution strategies. This program draws deeply on Daniel P. Brown's Ideal Parent-Figure (IPF) Attachment Protocol, and offers you space to develop empowering, reparative mental and somatic skills, while also tapping into a supportive community of people on the shard path of cultivating a meaningful life.

We discuss hope and agency in the face of great despair.

Originally recorded 2/29/24

⁠Sign up now for our upcoming Level One Intensive beginning April 6!⁠

This live group program offers instruction in Buddhist theory, Attachment Theory, and in-depth meditation techniques, all designed to help you get your needs met, pursue your authentic passions, and emotionally regulate along the way. In this program, you’ll learn how to develop secure relationships, uproot past attachment conditioning, as well as work through conflict resolution strategies. This program draws deeply on Daniel P. Brown's Ideal Parent-Figure (IPF) Attachment Protocol, and offers you space to develop empowering, reparative mental and somatic skills, while also tapping into a supportive community of people on the shard path of cultivating a meaningful life.

We discuss organizing practice and building a foundation that will allow us the full value of insight that our meditation techniques can bring.

Originally recorded 2/22/24

Sign up now for our upcoming Level One Intensive beginning April 6!

This live group program offers instruction in Buddhist theory, Attachment Theory, and in-depth meditation techniques, all designed to help you get your needs met, pursue your authentic passions, and emotionally regulate along the way. In this program, you’ll learn how to develop secure relationships, uproot past attachment conditioning, as well as work through conflict resolution strategies. This program draws deeply on Daniel P. Brown's Ideal Parent-Figure (IPF) Attachment Protocol, and offers you space to develop empowering, reparative mental and somatic skills, while also tapping into a supportive community of people on the shard path of cultivating a meaningful life.

How do we understand and interact with the world around us and in what ways are we privileging certain types of information and sensory experience?

Originally recorded 2/15/24

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23
7PM PT (APPROX. 75 MIN.)

You don’t need to be single in order to feel lonely. The sad truth is that, just because you’re in a relationship, doesn’t mean you’re feeling fulfilled or that you’ve ‘arrived’. Some report feeling an excruciating loneliness or feeling totally unseen, even in long term relationships. So, what gives? How can we make space for truly meaningful, mutually supportive, passionate and nourishing relationships?

In this workshop, you’ll learn an attachment theory perspective on why your dating life has been so hard, and how to date like a secure person (even if you’re not secure yourself!)

We continue our discussion of Exploration and how Meaning can be found within it.

Originally recorded 2/1/24

Sign up now for our ⁠⁠Meditation x Ad⁠⁠⁠⁠diction⁠⁠ series!

Three Saturdays, 9am - 11pm PT, beginning February 10.

The techniques and strategies covered in Meditation x Addiction are specifically designed to support healing for people dealing with addiction and addiction-related issues. As evidenced by George Haas's own personal path, mindfulness meditation-based skills training can offer a truly effective behavioral change in the realm of addiction.

What is authenticity? What is inauthenticity? And how can you live your life in a way that appropriately uses authenticity?

Originally recorded 1/18/24

Sign up now for our ⁠Meditation x Ad⁠⁠diction⁠ series!

Three Saturdays, 9am - 11pm PT, beginning February 10.

The techniques and strategies covered in Meditation x Addiction are specifically designed to support healing for people dealing with addiction and addiction-related issues. As evidenced by George Haas's own personal path, mindfulness meditation-based skills training can offer a truly effective behavioral change in the realm of addiction.

How do relationships where only one partner is putting in Attachment work playout? And what might be the cause of this imbalance?

Originally recorded 1/4/24

Sign up now for our Meditation x Addiction series!

Three Saturdays, 9am - 11pm PT, beginning February 10.

The techniques and strategies covered in Meditation x Addiction are specifically designed to support healing for people dealing with addiction and addiction-related issues. As evidenced by George Haas's own personal path, mindfulness meditation-based skills training can offer a truly effective behavioral change in the realm of addiction.

Coming a little bit late into the new year, but nonetheless, we journey into resolutions and how resolving towards authenticity can be a springboard for a better life.

Originally recorded 12/28/23

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Is practice a chore? Or can we conceptualize it as a qualitative experience?

Originally recorded 12/14/23

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The Holidays have come and gone and for many that means family time. Tune in as we discuss the difficulty of human relationships and also the craving and dependency that we as humans feel for them!

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In a moment of great strife, fear, and anger we discuss what it means to live without turning inward while preserving equanimity.

Originally recorded 11/02/23

New Live Workshop! How to Date Like a Secure Person (Even If You're Not) - Join George Haas live online for a brand new workshop that offers an attachment-based perspective on dating and relationships. Learn how attachment affects happiness and how showing up authentically can change everything. More info at ⁠⁠mettagroup.org/datingworkshop

Mortality! We discuss aging, different religious afterlifes, generational trends and traumas, and more!

Originally recorded 10/26/23

New Live Workshop! How to Date Like a Secure Person (Even If You're Not) - Join George Haas live online for a brand new workshop that offers an attachment-based perspective on dating and relationships. Learn how attachment affects happiness and how showing up authentically can change everything. More info at ⁠mettagroup.org/datingworkshop

We discuss the Buddhist Faith through different perspectives such as the West and Eastern Patriarchal societies!

Originally recorded 10/12/23

New Live Workshop! How to Date Like a Secure Person (Even If You're Not) - Join George Haas live online for a brand new workshop that offers an attachment-based perspective on dating and relationships. Learn how attachment affects happiness and how showing up authentically can change everything. More info at mettagroup.org/datingworkshop

From birth to the your first steps as a novice practitioner, how does the Self develop?

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Originally recorded 09/21/23

Falling hard and heavy into a new relationship can lead to over-commitments before a full healthy assessment of who you are together. We discuss this and more on this latest episode!

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Originally recorded 09/07/23

How do you identify a non-regulating relationship and once identified how should you proceed?

Try our guided daily morning meditation free for seven days at patreon.com/mettagroup!

Originally recorded 08/24/23

What starts as a discussion on dating moves through memory creation processes and how grief can be moved through by passing the lost attachment relationship strands into your other relationships.

Join us on Oct 7th for our Fall Meditation x Attachment Level One Intensive. Find out more and sign up here: https://www.mettagroup.org/mxa-level-one-fall-register

Originally recorded 08/17/23

We continue our previous discussion on Mindstates.

Join us on Oct 7th for our Fall Meditation x Attachment Level One Intensive. Find out more and sign up here: https://www.mettagroup.org/mxa-level-one-fall-register

Originally recorded 08/10/23

What is your mindstate? How do our sensory perceptions build models of the world and what are the things that influence and determine mental patterns. We discuss this and more!

Join us on May 6th for our Fall Meditation x Attachment Level One Intensive. Find out more and sign up here: https://www.mettagroup.org/mxa-level-one-fall-register

Originally recorded 08/03/23

What can you expect from practice? On this episode we discuss the difference between Western individualized practices and lineage practices and how this can change the steps one can predict encountering.

Continue the path to secure attachment with daily guided meditations, intensive courses and more resources at mettagroup.org/meditation-x-attachment
Originally recorded 07/27/23

We discuss the way conceptual reality is created and the way we can curate this to better serve us in the longterm.

Continue the path to secure attachment with daily guided meditations, intensive courses and more resources at mettagroup.org/meditation-x-attachment
Originally recorded 07/20/23

Today we dive into Dunbar's research on human cognition and the brain's ability to track faces, establish community, and the level of connectivity required for human happiness.

Continue the path to secure attachment with daily guided meditations, intensive courses and more resources at mettagroup.org/meditation-x-attachment

Originally recorded 07/03/23

What is a Secure Functioning relationship. On a basic level it is a relationship where there is reciprocal meeting of needs and caretaking. Learn more and go deeper with us in this episode!

Continue the path to secure attachment with daily guided meditations, intensive courses and more resources at mettagroup.org/meditation-x-attachment

Originally recorded 07/06/23

In this episode we continue our discussion on co-regulating relationships.

If you are interested in furthering your understanding on this topic we highly recommend this short, highly relevant chapbook “How to Date Like a Secure Person (Even If You’re Not Yet Secure)” which offers support and guidance for those who are wobbly (thanks to family systems/early caregivers) about how to have sweet, lasting relationships.

Originally recorded 06/29/23

When do we develop our Attachment style and how does that carry through the rest of our life? How do we look for partners that can stabilize us a collaborate with us? All and more discussed on this episode!

If you are interested in furthering your understanding on this topic we highly recommend this short, highly relevant chapbook “How to Date Like a Secure Person (Even If You’re Not Yet Secure)” which offers support and guidance for those who are wobbly (thanks to family systems/early caregivers) about how to have sweet, lasting relationships.

Originally recorded 06/22/23

In a return to new episodes we are finally able to upload a conversation from last month on Collaborative Relationships and what the fundamental components of a a healthy collaborative relationship are.

If you are interested in furthering your understanding on this topic we highly recommend this short, highly relevant chapbook “How to Date Like a Secure Person (Even If You’re Not Yet Secure)” which offers support and guidance for those who are wobbly (thanks to family systems/early caregivers) about how to have sweet, lasting relationships.

Originally recorded 05/18/23

While George is traveling we are dipping into the I Love You Keep Going the Podcast archives.

In this episode from July 2022, we discuss how our world is organized along lines of Money and Power and the ways to resist this through Community.

Continue the path to secure attachment with our signature Level One Intensive this August! https://www.mettagroup.org/mxa-level-one-aug-23-register

Originally recorded 07/14/22

While George is traveling we are dipping into the I Love You Keep Going the Podcast archives.

In this episode from March 2022, we talk about Mettagroup's preliminary practices of Attachment Theory.

While George is traveling we are dipping into the I Love You Keep Going the Podcast archives.

In this episode from May 2022, we talk about Peace with Self and how this is a deeply meaningful position that requires breaking through the experiencing sense of Self in the sensory world.

Continue the path to secure attachment with daily guided meditations, intensive courses and more resources at mettagroup.org/meditation-x-attachment

Originally recorded 05/26/22

In this episode we discuss what Attachment Repair means and how different types of Repair work are needed dependent on your Attachment style.

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Originally recorded 05/11/23

Ahead of our Meditation x Addiction Intensive, we dive into our this practice which combines traditional meditation approaches, the relapse pattern theories from the work of G. Alan Marlatt, Phd., and John Bowlby’s Attachment Theory. Students learn a simple, easy-to-learn, and very pragmatic approach to addressing addiction.

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Originally recorded 04/27/23

After our episodes on Loss and Separation, we dive into the Buddhist concept of Attachment.

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Originally recorded 04/20/23

All secure relationships require separation, a process in which we leave to explore and then come back to share. Join us in the ILYKG Podcast this week to learn about what this process is and how we learn it from a young age.

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Originally recorded 04/13/23

How do you get to a place of balance, discovery, and education in the face of ephemerality and constant loss? We discuss this question and how a Mettagroup-based practice can improve your capabilities and strengthen your fortitude.

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Originally recorded 04/06/23

AI & ChatGPT. Existential threat, blundering search engine, or something else entirely. Follow along as we discuss this and the history of technological breakthrough/breakdown on this episode.

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Originally recorded 03/30/23

The negation of Negative thoughts is not the creation of Positive thoughts. Today we discuss the ways in which you can implement positive strategies into your thinking patterns.

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Originally recorded 03/23/23

We continue our series on Attachment Repair with Part 2! 

Originally recorded 03/02/23

Today we begin a new series on Attachment Repair! Join us in the following weeks as we explore this concept. 

Originally recorded 02/23/23

What enables you to explore and engage with the world in a secure and comfortable way? We discuss this and more on this episode of ILYKG! 

Originally recorded 02/16/23

What is the safety net that allows you to make meaningful explorations in your life? 

Originally recorded 02/09/23

Breathe. Today we discuss the 84 Meditations.

Originally recorded 02/02/23

Today we discuss auditory vs visual learners and the ways in which meditation practices are often oriented towards those that are most receptive to oral information. 

Originally recorded 01/26/23

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George brings us back to a foundational understanding of what attachment is and what non-attachment is and how these have been viewed both traditionally and from the Western perspective. 

Originally recorded 01/19/23

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We use this episode to remember and honor the life and work of Mary Main, whose introduction of the 'disorganized' attachment classification and the Adult Attachment Interview for assessing states of mind regarding attachment were revolutionary in the field of psychology.

Originally recorded 01/12/23

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It is the first episode of the New Year and we start things off talking about Resilience, Grieving, and the process of beginning things anew. 

Originally recorded 01/05/23

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We bring together different threads that we have explored through the year in our final podcast episode of the year!

Originally recorded 12/22/22

Mentalizing continued! 

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Episode originally recorded 12/17/22

We continue our conversation on Mentalizing and jump in straight from the beginning with a discussion on newborns and cognitive development. 

Episode originally recorded 12/08/22

It is intuitive that is useful to see things from a different perspective but how do we break our fixed understanding of the world and why is it so difficult to do so? Learn more about this and more on the latest issue of the I love You Keep Going Podcast with George Haas!

How does practice develop? You will get many answers/strategies/tactics throughout your life, particularly when put in the West's secular terms, but today we trace the beginnings of practice at large and learn about George's own path. 

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Originally recorded 11/17/22

Is the brain like a computer that takes input data and files it among its known experiences? On this episode, we continue to unpack Conditioning. 

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Originally recorded 10/20/22

We finish up our conversations on Attachment via Buddhism and discuss the concept of Conditioning!

Originally recorded 10/20/22

We continue our discussion on Attachment via Buddhism and discussion the way the human brain functions chemically as part of a social species.  

Originally recorded 10/13/22

On this episode we discuss the ways different attachment styles alter the perspective one has on the world and how one forms their own sense of identity.

Originally recorded 9/22/22

Today we discuss the the way Mettagroup uses an Attachment Perspective in our preliminary practices and a brief history of how George came to this type of practice. 

Originally recorded 09/15/22

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Happiness! On this episode we discuss ways to move out of periods of grief and depression and the things that give and generate joy.  

Originally recorded 09/08/22

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We discuss what a meaningful life and meaningful change look like, what caring for our world means, and perspective on lifestyle and inequality. 

Originally recorded 08/25/22

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So what does it mean that the James Webb Space Telescope is bringing back images of universes beyond our own that challenge our conceptions of things like the Big Bang Theory? Probably not a lot in regards to our lived experiences! Today we discuss perceptions of of self and of the sensory world around us. 

Originally recorded 08/18/22

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What is meditation? What is attachment? It is time to nail down the basics!  

Originally recorded 08/11/22

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We get back to the basics with a fun and sprawling conversation covering preliminary practices, aging, enlightenment, and more!  

Originally recorded 08/04/22

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After a week off, we are back discussing the health of our politics and what solutions might exist to the varying crises we face. 

Originally recorded 07/28/22

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Continuing last week's line of though with the recent Supreme Court decision that nullified Roe vs Wade, we discuss what the role of the individual in a community is and how the community can posture itself against misanthropic forces. 

Originally recorded 07/14/22

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We take time and make space for discussion on the current stripping of rights that has seen its latest offense in the overturning of Roe v. Wade. How can we stay open and relationable to those who hold opposing views, how can we act, and how can we take care of ourselves? 

Originally recorded 07/07/22

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In part 2 of our new series we discuss the origins of Meditation x Attachment as well as the origins of insecure and disorganized minds during the infant stage. 

Originally recorded 06/16/22

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We begin a new series going over the curriculum for our signature Level 1 course. Tune in to learn more about the hardware/software of the brain!

Originally recorded 06/09/22

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George discusses the ways our terms for concepts like Peace, Attachment, and Suffering have evolved over time and discusses how the Sense of Self changes over the course of one's lifetime. 

Recorded live on 6/2/22

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We discuss what the sense of self is, how it develops, and what peace with self might mean

Recorded live May, 26 2022.

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How can we find peace or maybe equanimity? Join us as we talk about what this might mean, discuss different interpretations, and think through strategies.

Recorded live May, 19 2022.

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On this episode we discuss the ways in which Metta and Vipassanā support each other and how you can use Metta to further develop your capacity to mentalize.

Recorded live May, 12 2022.

We got all the way through Advanced Mentalizing and now it is time to go back to the Basics! 

Recorded live May, 5 2022. 

In this episode we continue our discussion of advanced mentalizing!

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We continue our conversation on Advanced Mentalizing and get into Depth.  

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On this episode we continue our conversation on Advanced Mentalizing, but first we start off with a roundtable on Daylight Savings Time. 

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We discuss the mentalizing skills that we gain from a young age and the ways that these skills can be upset and also developed.

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Today we bring things back to the basics with a discussion of what Attachment Theory is, how our attachments effect our daily lives, and what actions can be taken to improve the mentalizing process. 

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On this episode of I Love You Keep Going we discuss the preliminary practices that one should employ when beginning their exploration for a better chance at change and success. 

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Our journey along the Progress of Insight continues today with a discussion on Enlightenment. 

Captured live on 2/17/22

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We have a new name! Welcome to the newly-coined I Love You Keep Going the Podcast with George Haas. Today we continue with the Insight way of practicing and discuss Arising and Passing. 

Captured live on 2/10/22

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In this episode we continue our group discussion on the Insight way of practicing. 

Recorded 2/3/2022

We continue our conversation on the organization of practice and begin to discuss how that can evolve into the insight way of practicing using the Theravāda map.

Recorded 1/27/2022

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Our first podcast of the year! On this episode we continue a discussion of Metta Vipassana and trace the history of meditation in the West beginning with the first generation of teachers during the Original Hippie Times (OHT). 

Recorded 1/13/2022

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In this last podcast of the year, we discuss relationships with family and friends and the difficulties that can arise during this holiday time.

Recorded 12/16/2021

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As we take a short break from our Thursday Dharma Talk + Extended Sit sessions and , we are reposting some of our favorite Deepening Your Practice with George Haas podcast recordings. Take the time to relisten today's episode or enjoy for the first time.

On this episode from early 2021 George expands upon the Compassion Practice skill set to focus on how to develop compassion for yourself - which is often one of the hardest things to do. 

Captured live on 2/11/21.

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As we take a short break from our Thursday Dharma Talk + Extended Sit sessions and , we are reposting some of our favorite Deepening Your Practice with George Haas podcast recordings. Take the time to relisten today's episode or enjoy for the first time.

On this episode from 2020 George returns to the original text of the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta to explain the dhammas,  the original elements of the Buddhist teachings. 

Captured live on 8/27/20

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As we take a short break from our Thursday Dharma Talk + Extended Sit sessions and , we are reposting some of our favorite Deepening Your Practice with George Haas podcast recordings. Take the time to relisten today's episode or enjoy for the first time.

On this episode from 2019 George breaks down the common behaviors associated with each attachment style and how they can affect relationships.

Originally recorded 08/12/2019

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We discuss what Practice is and the different reasons (suffering, mindfulness, meaning) that people come to it. 

Recorded 10/28/2021

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There's an old Zen saying: "After the ecstasy, the laundry." On this episode we discuss ordinariness, stability, practice, and the freedom to explore. 

Recorded 10/21/2021

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Today we venture into a discussion on Metta Vipassana and how to be aware of what our minds are prioritizing and bringing to the forefront of our consciousnesses. 

Recorded 10/14/2021

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We speak about View as the basis of practice and how it is infused in our perception of reality and how it forms intent and action. 

Recorded 9/30/2021

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Today we shift topics from Meaningfulness to Attachment and Conditioning. 

Recorded 9/30/2021

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What's meaningful? What is the nature of the human experience and what is the nature of this lifetime that you are in? In today's episode we analyze these questions and the types of answers they receive. 

Recorded 9/23/2021

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We go deeper into the impact of care and attachment on the child and the ways exploration grow and reflect wellbeing.

Recorded 9/16/2021

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We discuss the meaningful life and how much of it is formed by the types of exploration allowed to us while we form our attachments. 

Recorded 9/9/2021

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We round off our conversations on the Brahma Viharas by discussing all of them together and discuss their utility as a strategy. 

Recorded 9/2/2021

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We continue our conversation about the Brahma Viharas and focus on their version of Equanimity, which relates to Karma and your stance within the world.

Recorded 8/26/2021

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On this episode we continue to delve into the Brahma Viharas and in particular focus on the the Sympathetic Joy practice from a Compassion point of view. 

Recorded 8/12/2021

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On today's episode of Meditation X Attachment with George Haas we continue our conversation on Brahma Vihara and discuss the integration of Buddhist script into practice and the potential friction that occurs with the self experience. 

Recorded 8/12/2021

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As we exit our series on the Progress of Insight, we spend the day talking about the Brahma Viharas (the Divine Abodes) which is used as a tool for developing concentration and building mind-states as opposed to feelings. 

Recorded 8/5/2021

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Today we conclude our series on the Path of Enlightenment by discussing the final six stages. These stages are beyond where most people's practices are, but are still useful in building a theoretical understanding of the process of enlightenment. 

Recorded 7/29/2021

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We continue our series on the progress of insight and analyze stage 9 and 10, respectively the desire to be delivered from suffering and reobservation. 

Recorded 7/22/2021

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Today we discuss the Buddhist concept of the Miseries (in a fun way!). This is a stage on the path of enlightenment in which you understand the impermanence of life, the inevitability of aging and death, and that the sense of self is a sensing experience that is based on life conditions.   

Recorded 7/15/2021

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Today we center our conversation on Dissolution, the fifth stage on the Path of Enlightenment, which is the breakdown of the experience of the barrier between inside and outside and the beginning of a profound flow state. 

Recorded 7/8/2021

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On this episode of Deepening Your Practice, we talk about the fourth stage of the progress of insight, the knowledge of arising and passing. Discussed as a "point of no return" this knowledge changes your perception of the fluidity and continuity and marks a before and after moment in your experience of the self and the world. 

Recorded 7/1/2021

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In this episode, we continue our discussion on the Path of Enlightenment and, in particular, focus on the third stage, which is development of the knowledge of impermanence and the comprehension of satisfaction.    

Recorded 6/24/2021

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On today’s episode we discuss the sensory world and its basis in conditionality, which allows us to infer that patterns of arising and passing rooted in karma will be repeated and therefore allows the world to be recognized.  

Recorded 6/10/2021

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Today we discuss enlightenment as a goal, the desire to end the experience of suffering from both Buddhist and secular perspectives, and the usefulness of different spiritual contexts on meditation and practice.   

Recorded 6/3/2021

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We dive into the difference between mental and physical phenomena and breakdown the raw sensing experience and the ways the mind acts to bring those senses into a comprehendible experience.   

Recorded 5/27/2021

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Today we cover parts of the history of Buddhism and discuss different paths to enlightenment including the old, the new, and the hybrid.  

Captured live on 5/20/21.

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In today’s episode we discuss the process of stabilizing your mind-state and how to identify when your experience of the world is being warped by a filter of self.

Captured live on 5/13/21.

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Continuing our conversation from the previous episode, we discuss how an honest inside practice can create emotional disruption and the practical ways to manage that disruption

Captured live on 5/6/21.

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In this episode, we discuss the purpose of practice, what can get in the way of your practice, and strategies to avoid being pulled out of the present moment.  

Captured live on 4/29/21.

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Continuing our DYP series, we discuss the Mindfulness movement in the West and weigh its benefits and deficiencies in relation to Attachment Theory.  

Captured live on 4/22/21.

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In this episode, we discuss climate change, population growth and density, immigration, and the ways our different global cultures engage with understandings of karma and the cycle of reincarnation.  

Captured live on 4/15/21.

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We discuss inequality, systemic racism, and genocide and how to both express compassion and properly protect yourself in relation to the difficult people that are perpetrators and exacerbators of harm. Captured live on 4/8/21.

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Today, we speak about holding space with the Neutral People that we encounter in our lives and what the appropriate amount of energy required is for these peripheral relations. Captured live on 4/1/21.

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In this episode we go in depth into Compassion practice and how to build a working model for your relationships with Friends and Family. Captured live on 3/25/21.

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We conclude our Compassion cycle with a discussion about expanding compassion outward towards all sentient beings and how to counteract the tendency to exclude individuals. Captured live on 3/18/21.

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Continuing our series on Compassion practice, we discuss what it is that can make an individual difficult to interact with and how to assess the macro-values of yourself and others to identify conflict. Captured live on 3/11/21.

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Continuing our series on Compassion practice, we discuss the varied levels of empathy that different types of people might exhibit, and how to build the compassion skills to understand and navigate them. Captured live on 3/4/21.

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We continue our discussion of Compassion practice, focusing on the different forms of relationships that we participate in and how to better recognize their characteristics. Captured live on 2/25/21.

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Our deep dive into Compassion Practice continues with developing compassion for a person who is close to you in your life.  Captured live on 2/18/21.

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George expands upon the Compassion Practice skill set he began last week to focus on how to develop compassion for yourself - which is often one of the hardest things to do. Captured live on 2/11/21.

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Embark on a new cycle for the weekly Dharma talk with an exploration of Compassion practice, which is an empathetic practice. Different from classic Metta practice, George explains the why and how. Captured live on 2/4/21.

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George continues his exploration of Tajjapannatti, which translates to "constantly going back" (tajji) and "conceptual reality" (pannatti). Captured live on 1/28/20.

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The Pali word Tajjapannatti translates to "constantly going back" (tajji) and "conceptual reality" (pannatti). George traces how this concept helps explain how the conceptual reality you create is accurate and true. Captured live on 1/21/20.

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The new year is always a great time to set intentions and organize and commit to your practice. George offers some practical advice drawing from his own experience meditating. Captured live on 1/4/20.

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George shares some of his experiences growing up in regards to religion and the holidays, and offers some perspective for this particularly challenging holiday season for many. Captured live on 12/17/20.

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George explores the value of retreat practice and how it can be the cornerstone of developing a consistent meditation practice. Captured live on 12/10/20.

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George continues his discussion the history of addiction in the USA, and how it connects to meditation practice and attachment styles . Captured live on 12/4/20.

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George takes a detour from the Vipassana exploration to discuss the history of addiction in the USA, and how it connects to meditation practice. Captured live on 11/19/20.

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George reads from his new book "The Lower Manhattan Dormitory Effect" - a recollection of downtown life in New York City in the late 70s and early 1980s reflected on from here in LA: 2020.

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George continues his deep dive into Vipassana meditation exploring what it means to examine the self and the world in practice. Captured live on 11/12/20.

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George continues his exploration of Vipassana meditation with a deep dive into the three marks of existence: impermanence (aniccā), non-self (anattā) and unsatisfactoriness or suffering (duḥkha). Captured live on 11/5/20.

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George explains the technique of Vipassana meditation using see, hear, feel practice applying focus in and focus out. Captured live on 10/29/20.

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This talk explores Vipassana meditation techniques and how touching into the sensory experience can tap into the nature of how we form self and world. Captured live on 10/22/20.

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In this recording, George explores compassion practice for all sentient beings. Captured live on 10/15/20.

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George breaks down compassion practice for "difficult people" and shares a story about how a teacher in Myanmar was more blunt and explained how Americans are reluctant to describe people as "enemies."  Captured live on 10/8/20

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Compassion practice, in the Buddhist sense, means turning toward the suffering experience of someone else and being willing to hold that experience. George breaks down the different models for empathy and how it relates to Buddhist vs. Western thinking. Captured live on 9/24/20.

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George returns to the original text of the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta to explain the dhammas,  the original elements of the Buddhist teachings. Captured live on 8/27/20

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Continuing the exploration of the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, George delves into the fourth foundation of mind­fulness: mindfulness of mental objects. Captured live on 8/20/20.

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George continues exploring the Satipatthana Sutta delving into the Buddhist concept of the mind as a sixth sense and how it relates to the more traditional Western concepts of the senses. Captured live on 8/13/20.

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While in some traditions enlightenment was really only the goal for monastics, Mahasi Sayadaw’s revolutionary teachings brought the notion to householders as well. George delves the topic in this talk which was captured live on 7/30/20.

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