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Releasing into Presence with Chandra Easton - Teaching on the "Mani Mantra" - Om Mani Padme Hung
This recording is from Chandra's class on June 11, taught via Zoom.
In this class, Chandra shares the meaning and melody for the beloved mantra for Avalokiteshvara (Tib. Chenrezig), the Buddha of Compassion: Om Mani Padme Hung.
Chandra taught this class via Zoom.
Description:
Come experience the benefits meditation, mantra, and movement have to offer our body, mind, and soul. Classes will be relaxing, rejuvenating, and fun, enhanced by community and collective practice. Weaving together mystical stories, meditations, mantra, movement and singing chants, Chandra offers practices that facilitate releasing into presence with ease and comfort. All are welcome.
The ongoing theme for this class is the classic Buddhist teachings on Mind Training (Lojong). At the heart of all practices of Tibetan Buddhism, Mind Training puts special emphasis on transforming all hardships and happiness into the path of awakening, meaning that all of life’s joys and sorrows can be fuel for the ultimate journey home. Mind Training consists of inspiring pithy slogans that help us dive deeply and intimately into our own capacity to develop wisdom and compassion in our lives. Chandra will share the classical root text called The Seven Points of Mind Training by Chekawa Yeshe Dorje (1102-1176) and various commentaries.
Meditation: Experience a richness of techniques for developing shamatha, calm abiding, and vipashyana, insight. These will include mindfulness of breathing, an especially effective approach to soothing the body and calming the discursive mind, and more advanced techniques called “settling the mind in its natural state” and “awareness of awareness.” Tonglen (sending & receiving) guided meditation will also be offered.
Mantra: Explore mantra recitation and chanting, both with and without musical accompaniment. Chandra will share a variety of mantras and melodies from the Buddhist and Hindu tradition, including melodies from her 21 Taras Collective project.
Movement: Practice gentle and accessible yoga and/or meditative movement to bring more comfort and ease to your meditation and life. We suggest you come wearing comfortable clothes.
Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton is a teacher, author, and translator of Tibetan Buddhist texts. She has taught Buddhism and Hatha Yoga since 2001 and co-translated Sublime Dharma: A Compilation of Two Texts on the Great Perfection, published in 2012.
While her training is rooted in Tibetan Buddhism (Mahayana and Vajrayana) and the Great Perfection (Ati Yoga; Dzogchen), her primary interest is making these traditional teachings relevant and accessible for our modern experience.
She is a Vajra teacher, Dorje Lopön, at Tara Mandala Retreat Center, founded by Lama Tsultrim Allione, where she serves on the Upaya Council, Prajna Council, and the Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Council, which address the underrepresentation of people from different cultural, racial, sexual orientation, and social backgrounds in the Dharma. She is the author of Embodying Tara: Twenty-One Manifestations to Awaken Your Innate Wisdom (Shambhala Publications, 2023). To learn more about her teaching schedule, writings, and music, visit www.chandraeaston.com.
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Releasing into Presence with Chandra Easton
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  • @gfriedaraye
    @gfriedaraye 2 дні тому

    ok, Ken name the women scientists

  • @mertyklmaz1553
    @mertyklmaz1553 18 днів тому

    @10:30 , this part is a great piece of practice. It is very easy to achieve from with these directives

  • @michaelcandelaria4827
    @michaelcandelaria4827 18 днів тому

    💓

  • @user71413
    @user71413 27 днів тому

    Audio starts at 1:32

  • @user71413
    @user71413 27 днів тому

    Audio starts at 1:32

  • @springlilly9672
    @springlilly9672 28 днів тому

    Poetically speaking, Ken McLeod speaks to my soul 🙏🏽❤️

  • @r6imi365
    @r6imi365 29 днів тому

    I love this yoga nidra practice. Thank you for sharing it. I've used it for small trauma for a while but recently tried it for a larger trauma and the energy is very painful and very stuck. I've done this nidra at least once a day for two weeks and it won't budge. It's very painful and it's now disrupting the rest of my life. What should I do? I want to let this trauma go, do I just continue to do this practice until it moves/dissapates like the others have?

    • @doorionhazan2923
      @doorionhazan2923 24 дні тому

      Hi there friend. I feel for you. From my experience it is better to try other things, try talking to someone about it, try journaling, or dancing with it, even laughing about it, but the most important is to move on, and tell it you will come back when you feel you can. There are many many ways and it’s usually better not to get stuck and discouraged with those things. You can put it aside and do some of the more resourcing yoga Nidra Kelly offers. I hope this is helpful and I will send you my best wishes for an easier time

  • @StarvingPoet
    @StarvingPoet Місяць тому

    Great meditation!!

  • @Ben-qm9zq
    @Ben-qm9zq Місяць тому

    You lost me at "sit-bones!" Its your ass, or your butt. Say it with me, ASS... BUTT... ASSBUTT!! 😂😂😂

  • @rasko
    @rasko Місяць тому

    I'm not sure it's entirely possible to sanely exist and function as non-dual unless one exists in an entirely privileged and pampered environment. I also think genuine experiences of oneness are profound and life-changing but also fleeting in their fullness, and can exist very close to the borderline of a psychotic break. I don't believe it's possible to truly 'know' what it means, no matter how much reading one does. The reading/learning comes after purely as validation and a wish to remain connected to that level of connection with source.

  • @michaelserro3878
    @michaelserro3878 Місяць тому

    Very nice, thank you

  • @elizabethmokrzycki7137
    @elizabethmokrzycki7137 Місяць тому

  • @micheleschulz3361
    @micheleschulz3361 Місяць тому

    Thank you, Chandra!🥰

  • @francisbardoel
    @francisbardoel 2 місяці тому

    thank you for this wonderful guidance

  • @GregTheRushFan
    @GregTheRushFan 2 місяці тому

    The best meditation position is the most comfortable one! There is no magic in any special pose.. Go watch Ajahn Brahm.. he's where it's at!

  • @thitchin
    @thitchin 2 місяці тому

    Thank you for explaining with such clarity and grace. I'm finding that my legs are folding into lotus 🧘‍♂️ and it's a painful transition. Onward! 🛸

  • @user71413
    @user71413 2 місяці тому

    Audio starts at 7:24

  • @dhondupgyatso7603
    @dhondupgyatso7603 2 місяці тому

    ❤❤🙏🏻👍

  • @pansrn
    @pansrn 3 місяці тому

    I’ve watched this half-a-dozen times since it was posted. Everyone was so thoughtful, engaged, and compassionate. Thank you to all the people involved.

  • @chandraeaston7000
    @chandraeaston7000 3 місяці тому

    Hi Everyone, thank you for watching my class. I hope you find it useful. Correction: when I summarized the four thoughts that turn the mind, the last one (4th) should be to "contemplate the unsatisfactory nature of samsara." I guess we could also contemplate the unsatisfactory nature of the aging brain :)

  • @zahs1332
    @zahs1332 3 місяці тому

    is there not a full video of this one?

  • @ElJamyangPawo
    @ElJamyangPawo 4 місяці тому

    Om Tare TUTARE TURE Bodhichitta SOHA

  • @user-dz9yx3et9y
    @user-dz9yx3et9y 4 місяці тому

    How come no one ever mentions the roots of Zen, Chan, and Mahayana stem from Iranian Sages and Magicians, Boddhidarhma was an Iranian Sage and so was King Kanesh and the first agents of Mahayana, which as a practice is closer to Zoroastrianism than Theravada Indian Buddhism. From Wiki: Bodhidharma was a semi-legendary Buddhist monk who lived during the 5th or 6th century CE. He is traditionally credited as the transmitter of Chan Buddhism to China, and is regarded as its first Chinese patriarch.

  • @user-be4mn6wk3b
    @user-be4mn6wk3b 4 місяці тому

    Thank you 🙏🧘

  • @qow2427
    @qow2427 4 місяці тому

    Thank you! Your Succession tangent from 15:00 made me trust you even more!

  • @terribrown3012
    @terribrown3012 4 місяці тому

    Sending You Loving regard dear fellow journeyer. Thank You for your service. May you be and stay well! May we All be free of Suffering without one exception. Maha Suka Divine Lopon Chandra 🙏💝

    • @TheAlembic
      @TheAlembic 3 місяці тому

      Thank you dear Terri! - Chandra

  • @user-be4mn6wk3b
    @user-be4mn6wk3b 5 місяців тому

    Thank you for the most interaction ❤️ an delightful , prayer's with heartfelt gratitude Katherine 🙏🙏🎶🕊️🙏

  • @campingmaccormacs1966
    @campingmaccormacs1966 5 місяців тому

    Nice barn, nice people, nice song! Cheers from Whitby

  • @pansrn
    @pansrn 5 місяців тому

    Christopher Wallis is such a pleasant addition to practice.

  • @marneythompson1758
    @marneythompson1758 5 місяців тому

    How can I get a copy of the chant done at the beginning please?

    • @TheAlembic
      @TheAlembic 5 місяців тому

      Hi Mary- thanks for asking! We'll add a link to the chant sheet into the video description -Kati

    • @linsbruin
      @linsbruin 5 місяців тому

      Narayaṇi Prayer from the Devi Mahatmya, verse 12 Śaraṇāgata dīnārtha, paritrāṇa parāyaṇe, Sarvasyārti hare devi, nārāyaṇi namostute I bow to Narayaṇi, the Goddess who takes away the afflictions of all. She is the refuge of the downtrodden, and she is the [very act of] turning toward the Supreme Śaraṇā - refuge | āgata - having arrived | dīnārtha - because of being downtrodden |paritrāṇa - completely saving | parāyaṇe - turning toward the Supreme | Sarvasyārtihare devi - the Goddess who takes away the afflictions of all | nārāyaṇi namostute - I bow to Nārāyaṇi.

  • @chrisbeacham7882
    @chrisbeacham7882 6 місяців тому

    Omg so bummed I missed Jenny!

  • @jameserwin3734
    @jameserwin3734 6 місяців тому

    Very helpful! Thank you!

  • @jodywagner1099
    @jodywagner1099 6 місяців тому

    I just got this book for myself for Christmas and am enjoying it very much. There’s so much that is really resonating with me. Thank you for writing this book! I also got the book for a friend for her Birthday💗🕊🙏🙏🙏🕊💗

  • @chandraeaston7000
    @chandraeaston7000 6 місяців тому

    I actually will be here next week. Jenny Terbell will sub 1/16.

  • @edwardhacker3284
    @edwardhacker3284 7 місяців тому

    I always have trouble getting started with this practice. I’ve done it several times through these videos but I still have fear about starting it. I usually watched the video once and then work with it the second time. It’s always helped. Thank you for publishing these.

  • @heartartindia
    @heartartindia 8 місяців тому

    Too much STUFF... Nothing is needed.. NOTHING NOTHING is needed to remember who we are❤🎉

  • @danasvenstrava7798
    @danasvenstrava7798 8 місяців тому

    Interested in “non-dualism” yoga philosophy?