"Those who love may listen; but it is extremely rare to find a listener. Most of us are after results, achieving goals; we are forever overcoming and conquering, and so there is no listening.
It is only in listening that one hears the song of the words." ~ J. Krishnamurti
#QoTD
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New post on the blog: The Language of Wisdom.
A look at how wisdom moves through language, from the Buddhaโs vernacular teachings to modern mindfulness. Accessibility isnโt dilution. itโs the doorway to depth.
#mindfulness #buddhism #vipassana #innerwisdom #myndtree
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24.11.2025 19:18 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
This weekโs meditation honors gratitude in every form. ๐ myndtree.short.gy/gr...
As we approach Thanksgiving, may we give thanks, remember, and open our hearts to all beings. ๐
#MeditationOfTheWeek #Gratitude #Mindfulness #Myndtree #HonoringAllPeoples
22.11.2025 13:15 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
"Our capacity to know joy is directly related to our capacity to forgive" ~ Charlotte Joko Beck
#QOTD
18.11.2025 13:15 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
As the world marks the #InternationalDayOfTolerance ๐ on Sunday, Nov 16, this weekโs meditation invites us to move beyond โothernessโ & embrace our shared humanity. ๐ myndtree.short.gy/just-like-me
#MeditationOfTheWeek #Oneness #Mindfulness #Myndtree
15.11.2025 13:15 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Walk with us, towards calm, clarity, and connection.
Subscribe to Myndtreeโs newsletters for weekly meditations and occasional community updates that nurture awareness and compassion.
๐ฟ myndtree.short.gy/subscribe
#Mindfulness #Presence #Stillness #Myndtree
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"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature" ~ Joseph Campbell
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Community Meditations | Myndtree
Join our drop-in guided Mindfulness Meditation group sessions via Zoom. These sessions provide space to pause, meditate, reflect, and share. We explore mindfulness and compassion practices, focusingโฆ
Start your mornings in stillness and community.
Myndtreeโs Community Meditation Series 63 runs Nov 10โ28, 8:00โ8:30 AM PT โ open to all, online, and offered on a donation basis.
๐๏ธ Join us: bit.ly/CommunityMed...
#Meditation #Mindfulness #Presence #Community #Myndtree
09.11.2025 14:15 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
We meet our inner storms with compassion. ๐ง๏ธ
This weekโs meditation explores the RAIN practice โ Recognize, Allow, Investigate, and Nourish โ and invites us to rest in awareness after the rain.
Try it now ๐ bit.ly/Difficult_Em...
#Mindfulness #Meditation #Myndtree #MeditationOfTheWeek
08.11.2025 13:15 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Community Meditations | Myndtree
Join our drop-in guided Mindfulness Meditation group sessions via Zoom. These sessions provide space to pause, meditate, reflect, and share. We explore mindfulness and compassion practices, focusingโฆ
Start your mornings in stillness and community.
Myndtreeโs Community Meditation Series 63 runs Nov 10โ28, 8:00โ8:30 AM PT โ open to all, online, and offered on a donation basis.
๐๏ธ Join us: bit.ly/CommunityMed...
#Meditation #Mindfulness #Presence #Community #Myndtree
07.11.2025 13:15 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
The true Guru is not a person, but awareness itself, the light that reveals what we already are. Gayathri reflects on her teacher, Guru Nitya, and the living presence of guidance that continues to shine within.
๐ช bit.ly/TheGuruWithin
#InnerGuru #Stillness #Awakening #Wisdom #Myndtree
06.11.2025 13:15 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
#MeditationOfTheWeek Relax. Breathe. Open your senses. ๐ฟ
Taste the air, feel the breeze, hear the quiet truth of now.
โWe must plant ourselves again in the universe.โ ~ D.H. Lawrence
๐ Listen at buff.ly/H0v3u8Z
#Mindfulness #Meditation #AwakenYourSenses #Myndtree
01.11.2025 12:15 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
#MeditationOfTheWeek Pause. Breathe. Relax. Open. ๐ฟ
A moment of stillness is all it takes to return to whatโs realโthe beauty of now.
buff.ly/OzcXtp7
#Mindfulness #Meditation #Presence #Myndtree
25.10.2025 12:15 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
โLove and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.โ quote by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. Text overlaid on image of young sprouting plant being watered.
Sharing our latest blog 'The Quiet Power That Sustains Us'
www.myndtree.org/single-post/...
03.05.2025 04:57 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Collage of local members of Myndtree's meditation community at a spring potluck picnic in the Bay Area.
A picture perfect picnic in the park with friends! Yesterday was Myndtree's annual Spring Potluck. So wonderful to have the opportunity to slow down and break bread with a loving #community. Our hearts are full ๐ฅฐ. #joy #mindfulness #springtime
21.04.2025 00:20 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Illustration of people meditating with the words "If you can't go outside, go inside"
Myndtree just celebrated the 5th anniversary of our daily Community Meditations group. 700+ guided meditations later we're still thriving ๐ง
A blog inspired by the value of community & Margaret Wheatley's Warriors for the Human Spirit ๐ bit.ly/April2025Blog
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Happy to share a FREE new 3-week series for mindfulness meditation beginners. Find Your Calm offers an introduction in a supportive environment. Starts Saturday, March 1. All are welcome. Details & registration at myndtree.org/introduction...
#meditation #mindfulness #learntomeditate
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Gayathri will be speaking on Adi Shankaracharya's Saundarya Lahari and the Divine Feminine at The Seeker's Compass this Sunday Feb 16th at 8 AM PT.
Register here -> 1l.ink/7WCTHB8 (Zoom link will be shared before event).
#SaundaryaLahari #Devi #DivineFeminine #Shakti
12.02.2025 03:00 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Community Meditation Groups | Myndtree
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๐ง Join a wonderful community of fellow meditators to cultivate and nurture a regular meditation practice! Next 3-week guided meditation series on Zoom begins Feb 3rd. All are welcome. Register: 1l.ink/WX564PK
#MyndtreeMeditation #MyndtreeMindfulness #DaillyMeditation #WhereeverYouAre #Peaceful
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Inspiration of the week! Many thanks to Peter Oppenheimer for this beautiful reminder from Narayana Guru ๐
20.01.2025 02:15 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Bowing in at the shared altar
Ready to begin the retreat!
Beautiful Los Altos Hills outside our window.
Welcomed 2025 teaching my first daylong #retreat! Facilitated โMindful Beginningsโ for #intentionsetting for this #newyear. So special to witness the heartfelt communion, multiple a-ha moments, and the coming into being of new directions for the year. #meditation #journaling #visionboard
12.01.2025 06:11 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Clarify your individual values, intentions and goals to help set the compass for the New Year ๐ง๐ฝ
We're hosting a daylong mindfulness retreat at Urban Ashram in Los Altos Hills on Saturday, January 25, 2025. Details & registration at myndtree.org/newyear
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Emergency physician, Zen Buddhist priest and chaplain
writer, anthropologist, zen buddhist practitioner, engaged dharma, career alchemist.
๐ Work That Matters (2017, Parallax Press)
Grateful to be a guest on Tewa homelands (Northern New Mexico).
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Bridging science and contemplative wisdom to foster insight and inspire action toward flourishing.
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What I have learned through these years is simple yet profound. I am not the healer. The Healer is the Light itself.
๐แดสแดษชsแด ๐ แดแดษชษดแดษชษดษข ๐ชท ษดแดแดแดสแด๐ฒ แดษดแดก ๐ าแดสแดแดส แดสแดา. ๐จ แดสแดษขสแดssษชแด แด https://linktr.ee/amyweberstudio?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=f338a0f9-6ecd-45e4-b480-d24d01c31ed9
Meditation Teacher & Author
Raised on Coast Miwok land, longtime resident on Ramaytush Ohlone land, writer, climate person, feminist, wanderer. Just started a newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
Social activist, Zen practitioner, harpsichordist, pianist, theologian #Bodhisattvavows #compassion #earlymusic #slavaukraini
๐ Corgi Whisperer ๐๐ฝ Zen Buddhist, mom, wife, anti-racist, lifelong Dem ๐, retired climate change/sustainability educator, master gardener, permaculture teacher, sourdough baker, Rocky Mtn (NM/CO) transplant in PNW
humanistic psychodynamic Buddhist deconstructionist ... and all-round sweet guy
interested in cross-cultural parallels in contemplative practice
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https://utexas.academia.edu/DavidCollins
[header is the rock garden at Ryลan-ji; avatar is an enso]
Guiding teacher at One Mind Zen Collective, an East Mountain Sangha
Psychological Scientist, Author, and host of PRX podcast "How God Works: The Science Behind Spirituality." Studying the Science of Emotion, Morality, & Religion. Words frequently in NYT, WSJ, etc. https://davedesteno.com https://www.howgodworks.org
PhD candidate in Learning sciences - Practical Philosophy - 4EA Cognition | Phenomenology | Education for Flourishing & Relational Becoming
Zen priest, Unitarian Universalist minister, change coach, writer, editor, calligrapher, gardener, hiker, kayaker, botanist.
Musician, writer, recovering Zen practitioner.
12 Step Zen explores the intersection of 12 step wisdom and the Dharma, all are welcome.
Black/Buddhist/Leftie/OrganicRegenerativeFarmer/ReverseMigrationToTheSouth
Buddhist monk since 1993. Copyeditor at 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha. Low-intensity birder. 96.37% vegan.
https://84000.co/
Buddhist-ish, liberal AF, will kick your ass at trivia, think kindness comes first, love humanity and life itself. Dad to an amazing daughter. Husband to her gorgeous mom. Not here to do anything but find and connect to my tribe. Will follow back.
Neuroscientist at Mass. General Hospital, studying the neuroscience of meditation, yoga, and adult development.
Former politico writing with humor and depth about the intersection of politics and spirituality in the United States and around the world.