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 Join our daily Morning Meditation at patreon.com/mettagroup to help commit to your practice!

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 Join our daily Morning Meditation at patreon.com/mettagroup to help commit to your practice!

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 Our Meditation X Attachment Level Two Virtual Six Month Intensive is filling up! Find more information and secure your spot today by registering here: https://www.mettagroup.org/mxa-level-2-sept-2021-registration

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 Join our daily Morning Meditation at patreon.com/mettagroup to help commit to your practice!

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 Join our daily Morning Meditation at patreon.com/mettagroup to help commit to your practice!

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 Join our daily Morning Meditation at patreon.com/mettagroup to help commit to your practice!

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 Join our daily Morning Meditation at patreon.com/mettagroup to help commit to your practice!

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 Sign up now for our Meditation X Attachment Level Two course six-month intensive beginning September 16th! Level Two is open to students who have completed Level One as well as students have taken any previous iterations of our intensive courses or extended retreats. The course includes one-on-one mentoring and offers a more in-depth exploration of the connections between attachment and regular meditation practice to shift your existing relationships into secure functioning ones, drawing deeply on Dr. Daniel P. Brown’s Idealized Parent Figure (IPF) protocol. Classes are live-streamed on Zoom, and are recorded and archived with video and/or audio files available for students who miss any sessions or wish to review the material again. Register now: https://www.mettagroup.org/mxa-level-2-sept-2021-registration 

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 Registration is available for the last two sessions of our signature Meditation x Attachment course! Open to all students, this intensive offers instruction in Buddhist theory, Attachment Theory, and in-depth meditation techniques. It focuses on developing secure relationships, uprooting past attachment conditioning and working through conflict resolution strategies to learn how to be completely yourself in your relationships with others and with your work. In other words, this course helps you learn how to live a meaningful life. Sign up now at https://www.mettagroup.org/mxa-level-one-july-21-register.

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 Join our daily Morning Meditation at patreon.com/mettagroup to help commit to your daily practice!