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This talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson, Ph.D. It is titled, “The Biology of Craving – and Not” and focuses on biological nature of craving and what we can do about it.

This talk included a guided meditation which you can download here.

The San Rafael Meditation group is a weekly gathering in San Rafael, California, and is led by Rick Hanson, Ph.D. (and occasional guest teachers). It focuses on cultivating the brain states of self-awareness, calm, and inner peace, lovi...

This talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson, Ph.D. is titled, “Right Conduct toward Others – and Yourself” and focuses on warming the heart and providing practical guidelines from the Buddha in terms of right speech, right action, and right livelihood as he laid out as to live with a warm heart.

This talk included a guided meditation is titled, “Grounded Warm Heartedness” which you can download here.

The San Rafael Meditation group is a weekly gathering in San Rafael, Califo...

This talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson, Ph.D is titled “Practices for Three Sources of Craving,” focuses on resting in fullness which is informed by noble truths in Buddhism regarding elimination of craving.

The San Rafael Meditation group is a weekly gathering in San Rafael, California, and is led by Rick Hanson, Ph.D. (and occasional guest teachers). It focuses on cultivating the brain states of self-awareness, calm, and inner peace, lovingkindness, mindfulness, and...

This talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson, Ph.D. It is titled, “Growing Inner Resources for Feeling Safe and at Peace” and focuses on our need for safety and developing resources inside of ourselves to feel safe and at peace.

This talk included a guided meditation which you can download here.

The San Rafael Meditation group is a weekly gathering in San Rafael, California, and is led by Rick Hanson, Ph.D. (and occasional guest teachers). It focuses on cultivating the brain ...

This talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson, Ph.D. It is titled, “Cultivating Contentment and Easing the Craving of Grasping” and focuses on resting in fullness is a way to explore the transition between the second (craving) and third (end of craving) noble truths in Buddhism.

This talk included a guided meditation which you can download here.

The San Rafael Meditation group is a weekly gathering in San Rafael, California, and is led by Rick Hanson, Ph.D. (and occasional gue...

This talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson, Ph.D it is titled “Introducing Wholeness – in Your Brain and Life,” and focuses on what could be going on in your brain and life when your heart is open.

The San Rafael Meditation group is a weekly gathering in San Rafael, California, and is led by Rick Hanson, Ph.D. (and occasional guest teachers). It focuses on cultivating the brain states of self-awareness, calm, and inner peace, lovingkindness, mindfulness, and happiness. Rese...

Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson, Ph.D. It is titled, “Resting in Love” and focuses on resting in love and the need for connecting.

This talk included a guided meditation which you can download here.

The San Rafael Meditation group is a weekly gathering in San Rafael, California, and is led by Rick Hanson, Ph.D. (and occasional guest teachers). It focuses on cultivating the brain states of self-awareness, calm, and inner peace, lovingkindness, mindfulness, an...

Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson, Ph.D. It is titled, “Feeling Whole – Accepting Yourself Fully” and focuses on ways of being our whole self by acknowledging distinct ways of being and a way of being by having less sense of self.

This talk included a guided meditation which you can download here.

The San Rafael Meditation group is a weekly gathering in San Rafael, California, and is led by Rick Hanson, Ph.D. (and occasional guest teachers). It focuses on cult...

This talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson, Ph.D. is titled, “Taking an Ennobling Path in Relationships” and focuses on framework for aspirational nature of these seven practices (steadness of mind, warming the heart, resting in fullness, a sence of contentment and peace and love, softening into wholeness, receiving nowness, opening into allness, and finding timelessness) and holding them in our own real life.

This talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson, ...

Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson, Ph.D. It is titled, “The Sweetness of Lovingkindness” the focuses is on lovingkindness through personal effort, deliberate practice, and opening doors to all. There is a sweetness to the emphasis on the power of love and not putting anyone out of our heart.

The San Rafael Meditation group is a weekly gathering in San Rafael, California, and is led by Rick Hanson, Ph.D. (and occasional guest teachers). It focuses on cultivat...