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  • D1S1 - Welcome, and Happiness as an Inside Job 47 minutes

    David opens with the practical shape of the retreat and his encouragement not to busy yourself between sessions. He talks about the theme, habits of happy people, and why the happiness we really seek is an inside job rather than something the outside world delivers. He introduces the six perfections as what the sessions will work through. Meditation postures are described, then a practice on the breath that ends with your own motivation for being here.

  • Evening Yoga - 7 August 2026 34 minutes

    Manu keeps this one horizontal after dinner. It opens seated with deep breaths and shoulder circles, then moves onto the back for knees dropping side to side, one leg at a time raised and flexed, and butterfly with the knees pressed towards the floor. Seated neck stretches and cat and cow follow, and the block goes lengthways between the shoulder blades for a long overhead stretch. It closes in shavasana with counted breathing, four in and four out.

  • Morning Yoga - 8 August 2026 36 minutes

    Manu opens seated with deep breaths and shoulder rolls, then easy twists and a side reach over each arm before folding forward over the legs. Tabletop brings a thorough wrist warm-up, the fingers pointed every way and the backs of the hands on the floor, then cat and cow and downward dog. Three legged dog leads into a lunge walked out to the edge of the mat, a held plank and child's pose with the hands walked to each side, mirrored on both sides. It closes with bridge and shavasana.

  • D2S1 - Generosity, Contentment and Gratitude 86 minutes

    The session opens with twenty minutes of mindfulness of breathing in which we release distractions with every out breath. David then begins the six perfections with the first, dana, generosity, which he describes as an attitude rather than always handing things over, and why expecting something back spoils it. He covers the three kinds of giving, material things, fearlessness and the teachings, then contentment and gratitude as antidotes to attachment. It closes with a practice called harvesting joy.

  • D2S2 - Ethical Conduct, and Loving Kindness 73 minutes

    In mindfulness of breathing we move to the sensations at the belly, with two extras to help focus, closer attention on the in breath and looseness on the out breath, plus counting one to seven. The teaching takes the second perfection, sila, ethical conduct, as the foundation for everything else, and it comes down to avoid harm and do good. Loving kindness follows, a mode of attending rather than an emotion, practised from yourself out to a loved one, a stranger, someone difficult and all beings.

  • D2S3 - Questions, and Whether Our Habits Really Change 59 minutes

    The evening opens with a few minutes of settling in the body and the breath, then David works through questions from the room and from online. He talks about whether effort really does change our habits day by day, and about phrases like "so what, who cares, no big deal" and "it happens" for small irritations. Later ones cover sounds that pull the attention away, grief after a family death, feeling unworthy of receiving generosity, and where giving to our own detriment starts.

  • Morning Yoga - 9 August 2026 33 minutes

    Manu starts on the back with knee circles and bridge, the feet together and the knees pressed open, before rolling up to seated for shoulder work. Tabletop brings the wrist warm-up and thread the needle, then downward dog, three legged dog and a high lunge that opens into warrior two, a side angle and a balance with the back leg floated off the floor. Both sides are mirrored, with plank, child's pose and a reach back for the feet in between. It closes with a forward fold and shavasana.

  • D3S1 - Patience and Acceptance, and the Spark and the Fuel 87 minutes

    In the breathing practice we move up to the tips of the nostrils, the finest object so far, with clarity built on relaxation and stability rather than at their expense. David then talks about patience: the thing outside is the spark, but our own mind is the fuel, and much of the pain is the added belief that this should not be happening. The four aspects are acceptance, understanding, compassion and fortitude, and the session closes with a practice in which we bring a real difficulty to mind and meet it with each one.

  • D3S2 - Joyful Effort, and the Three Kinds of Laziness 69 minutes

    Awareness itself is the object to begin with: sensations, then sounds, then thoughts, turning the attention back each time to the awareness that knows them, resting in the sky rather than the clouds. David then talks about joyful effort, and about switching the reward by asking why you want to do a thing and, afterwards, whether you are glad you did it. The three kinds of laziness follow: the wish for your own comfort, faintheartedness, and the busyness of worldly things.

  • Afternoon Yoga - 9 August 2026 40 minutes

    Manu goes straight to the mat with cat and cow and a wrist warm-up, then downward dog into a long pigeon on each side, going as deep as feels right. Standing brings a knee raise and tree pose, the foot above or below the knee and never on it, with closing the eyes offered as the harder option. Plank, knee to elbow on each side and a kneeling backbend reaching for one heel follow, then a seated forward fold and butterfly. It closes in shavasana with slow controlled breaths out through the mouth.

  • D3S3 - Questions on Perfectionism, Judgement and Grief 57 minutes

    A few minutes of stillness and the breath open the evening, then David works through the questions. He covers how to reconcile a powerful psychedelic experience with practice, why a glimpse of something profound fades without stability of mind, perfectionism and judgement, and what happens when we keep offering love and get none back. Later ones cover limiting how much world news we take in, the RAIN tool for waves of grief, and encouraging a partner by our own example.

  • Morning Yoga - 10 August 2026 30 minutes

    Manu opens with five rounds of box breathing, in, hold, out, hold, then seated twists and side reaches. Tabletop brings wrist circles and puppy pose before downward dog, and the class is built around cactus arms, the elbows bent and the shoulder blades squeezed together, taken into chair pose and repeated through each standing round. Three legged dog, a lunge with cactus arms and plank follow on both sides, with child's pose as the rest. It closes with happy baby and shavasana.

  • D4S1 - Concentration, and Balancing Effort With Relaxation 86 minutes

    The morning opens with mindfulness of breathing at the nostrils, with relaxation, stability and the counting. David turns to concentration, the fifth of the six perfections, and what gets in the way: excitation, the scattered mind, and laxity, the dullness that can feel like meditation. He talks about balancing effort with relaxation, and about mindfulness as the guard at the gate and introspection as the manager checking on it. In a second practice we attend to sight, sound and mind, then harvest joy.

  • D4S2 - Wisdom, and What We Take Home 60 minutes

    The session opens with a short practice in which we breathe in gratitude and compassion and breathe out anxieties and doubts. David turns to the last of the six perfections, wisdom, and to ignorance, the not knowing underneath attachment and aversion. He talks about impermanence, about the causes of happiness being inside rather than out there, and about holding the labels we put on ourselves more lightly. A longer practice of 21 breaths follows, in which we bring appreciation to body, home and relationships.

  • I Can't Meditate, My Mind Is Too Busy 7 minutes

    A short extract from Motivating the Lazy Practitioner Within. David talks about what happens when we do a ten minute practice where the mind wanders the whole time and we think it was a waste, and why the wandering mind is not an obstacle to meditation, but the very fabric of it. He says, if meditation only worked when the mind was quiet, then we would not need it! He offers a small reframe: I can't focus, becomes I can't focus yet, as we remain open to growth rather than feeling defeated.

  • Session One - What Attachment Is, and Where It Hides 72 minutes

    David separates attachment from genuine love, quoting Venerable Robina Courtin that attachment is I-based and love other-based, and that the two are stirred together like milk and water. He traces it to the feeling of not being enough: in being liked, in being right, and in the roles we hold on to, his own being the tech person on the ward until others arrived who could do it too. In the guided practice we set the two side by side for a loved one and a friend. It closes on the fear of abandonment underneath.

  • Session Two - From Need to Care, and the Open Palm 83 minutes

    David shifts the basis of a relationship from need to care, then reads Thich Nhat Hanh on loving in such a way that the person you love feels free. Contentment and gratitude come in as the medicine for attachment, and equanimity as the open palm rather than the fist closed around a songbird that has landed in it. David then guides a practice in which we turn towards the fear of things changing with reassurance rather than argument, and wish a loved one free. It closes on the group's own reflections.

  • Session Two - The Natural Warmth of Awareness 80 minutes

    In two guided practices we rest in awareness of awareness and then let warmth in on the in breath, without it feeling manufactured. Between them David reads Tsoknyi Rinpoche on essence love, and Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo on our being something jewel-like rather than worthless. Gold covered in dirt is plunged into the water of awareness rather than scrubbed, and the frightened, contracted part of us is warmed like ice rather than broken with a hammer. It closes on a question about bliss, and a dedication.

  • Stress Isn't What the World Does to You 4 minutes

    A short extract. David on a line he rejected outright when he first heard it, that stress is not what the world does to you but what you bring to the world, and on why he came to find it freeing rather than a way of blaming people for their own difficulties.

  • Throw Guilt Out - You Are Not Your Worst Moments 3 minutes

    A short extract. Guilt and shame never get around to the behaviour, only to what a bad person you are, so David argues for throwing them out altogether. Tibetan has no word for this kind of guilt; the nearest is intelligent regret that decides to do things differently.

  • Befriending the Mind 178 minutes

    Natalia Bojanic on the attitudes that make mindfulness possible: curiosity, non-striving, letting be and letting go, and generosity, offered as antidotes to boredom, agitation, aversion and doubt. Two thirds experiential, with guided meditations, mindful walking and stretching, journalling and discussion.

  • Spiritual Rebellion: Mindfulness with Attitude 117 minutes

    Ondy Willson introduces her book and the work behind it: the influences of Buddhism, of her own life, and of twenty years teaching mindfulness in the public and private sectors. She sets out the key ideas of a spiritual practice, and how they can give contemporary life meaning and purpose without requiring a religion. With a reading, a meditation, and questions.

  • Part One - Destructive Emotions, and an Antidote for Each 103 minutes

    Spirituality with the religion stripped out, and emotions as the ground of ethics. The four opponent powers arrive by way of Atisha climbing down off his horse: take refuge, regret it, apply a remedy, resolve not to do it again. Then constructive and destructive emotions, a guided meditation that washes an anger out through the soles of the feet, and an antidote worked out for each: patience, empathy, forgiveness, gladness at another's good fortune.

  • Part Two - The Spiritual Warrior, and the Mind Training Commitments 98 minutes

    The spiritual warrior is on an inner crusade, not one aimed at anybody else. The tantric view that we are already enlightened and held back by a small idea of ourselves, a long visualisation that breaks the rock of ego around Buddha nature, fear as the thing that blocks courage, and the commitments of the seven point mind training read through and argued over.

  • Guided Meditation - Arousing Aspiration for Practice 18 minutes

    David asks why you joined the session tonight, and beneath that what draws you to practice at all, with time to sit rather than grab the most obvious answer. Then a moment when something on the path worked, and a person whose practice you admire or trust, on the thought that if they can do this then perhaps it is not beyond you. It closes looking forward, at what a calmed mind would change, with no shoulds and no pressure.

  • Guided Meditation - Harvesting Joy, Finding Delight in the Ordinary 10 minutes

    The body first, searched for anything pleasant in it, comfort in the seat, clothes against the skin, the soothing rhythm of the breath. The eyes then open at least partly, for whatever is delightful to see, and after that whatever is delightful to hear, birds, wind chimes, or the relative silence. We let awareness roam the five senses, harvesting the small and trivial and multiplying it. It closes on gratitude for this precious human life and a dedication.

  • Guided Meditation - Looking for the Inherently Existing I 22 minutes

    The sense of I is picked out first: not the hands and not the thoughts, but the one who feels happy when praised and offended when insulted, central, fixed, standing apart. If it exists it should be findable, so the body is checked part by part, arm, leg, head, then the whole, then the mind, thought, feeling, memory, all of it changing. What turns up is only parts, causes and labels. It closes resting in whatever calm comes of that.

  • Guided Meditation - The Beginningless Continuum of Mind 23 minutes

    We turn attention to the thing we call mind, where nothing static can be found, only moment to moment processes, a thought arising one moment and passing the next. The continuum is traced back through birth to the first consciousness of a foetus, which must have had its own prior cause. Since the lives are countless, so are the mothers, and David asks you to see every being you meet as one of them.

  • Guided Meditation - Recognising the Kindness of All Beings 23 minutes

    Beginning again from the recognition that every being has been your mother, we go through the kindness itself: the nine painstaking months carried, the night feeds, the bathing, the silly faces made just to raise a smile, the hands held through first steps, the words repeated until you could form them. Each stage is extended to all beings across countless lives. It closes on this life, and on the food, clothing and home that come from others' work.

  • Guided Meditation - Repaying Kindness with Affectionate Love 22 minutes

    The kindness you have received is counted up: parents, teachers, friends, strangers who helped once, and the people who grow the food, maintain the infrastructure and care for the environment around you. Gratitude turns into a wish to repay it by using this precious human life for others. David then asks for a vast gathering of beings visualised around you, friends, strangers and those you find difficult, held in affectionate love and great compassion.

  • Guided Meditation - Befriending Anxiety 16 minutes

    A low-level worry or grievance is invited to the surface, whatever shouts loudest, and located in the body as a felt sense, with the palm of the right hand over the chest to signify kindness. You then breathe space around the feeling with a deep in breath, neither suppressing nor indulging it, before warmth and compassion are brought in, supporting yourself as you would a friend. It closes with slow breathing, in for five and out for seven.

  • Guided Meditation - Rejoicing in Your Own Life and the Good in the World 19 minutes

    Rejoicing starts with your own life history, with any goodness received from the world and any brought to it, however small. Then someone you care about at a moment of their excitement, their joy felt as your own and breathed in, with the phrase may your good fortune continue. It widens to people who inspire you and to the communities working for those in need, then to anyone you envy or resent, and comes back to you.

  • Guided Meditation - Awareness of Awareness Through Sound, Body and Mind 19 minutes

    Eyes open and the gaze resting in space, sounds are noticed arriving on their own, then the difference between a sound and the awareness of it: sounds come and go, what knows them does not. The move repeats in the body, taking the most obvious sensation and asking whether the awareness itself is aching, and then to a thought and a worry, met from the awareness holding it. It closes sharpening on the in breath and relaxing on the out.

  • Guided Meditation - Sitting with a Difficult Emotion as a Hurting Friend 21 minutes

    A recent worry or difficult emotion is brought up from under the surface and held as if it were a hurting friend. David asks for no fixing and no dialogue, only hello. We follow how it maps across the body, a swirling, a tightening, a pressure, then the narratives and memories, listened to rather than believed. When the mind starts problem solving, the exhale lengthens. It closes on three energetic breaths sighed out through the mouth.

  • Guided Meditation - Gratitude and Appreciation 21 minutes

    Gratitude is generated deliberately, first for the breath, then for the heartbeat, then for this human body and the unique mind without which there would be no experience. David quotes a teacher: as long as we are breathing, there is more right here than there is wrong. It widens to the room and its sounds, the home, hot water and a fridge, the people behind everything you own, and the planet. The last minutes are your own.

  • Guided Meditation - White Light at the Heart Centre 21 minutes

    Twenty one counted rounds steady the mind, then a glowing white orb appears at the centre of the chest, no bigger than a golf ball, at the level of the heart. It is enough to imagine it is there. David calls this the root of the mind, where it converges in deep dreamless sleep and at the end of a life, and asks for a loose focus and the sense of meditating from there rather than behind the eyes.

  • Guided Meditation - Cultivating Generosity 21 minutes

    You sharpen the mind with twenty one rounds of breath, three lots of seven, and then its creativity is put to work. David asks for a picture of a typical day, where you go, the shops or errands, the people you meet, and for generosity imagined into it: something material, your time, your expertise, a kind word. Their response is imagined too, and the warmth of giving with nothing wanted back. It closes on an intention to carry that into ordinary days.

  • Guided Meditation - Meeting a Difficulty with Inner Strength 22 minutes

    Stillness of the body, the gaze and awareness, held until the rhythmic sensations of breathing rise up to meet you, with a count at each exhale if engagement slips. A current difficulty is invited in: I want it to be different, but this is the way it is right now. David points out a hundred per cent success rate at getting through every challenge so far, calls it a superhero mindset, and has you sit a little taller.

  • Guided Meditation - Forgiving Ourselves and Letting Go of the Past 16 minutes

    A piece of negative self-talk is brought to mind and held there. David shows the mind as a brilliant storyteller, building a whole identity from one thing you said or did, then shifts the ground from thinking the thought to noticing you are having it. Grace comes next, for being human, and the words to the extent I am able, I forgive myself, I release. It closes with a hand on the chest and wishes to be kind to yourself.

  • Guided Meditation - Releasing a Resentment 14 minutes

    A resentment you are still carrying comes to mind, and the hurt of it is acknowledged first. David then turns to where that person's behaviour came from, their own pain and confusion, and to the difference between a person and their mental afflictions, without agreeing the action was okay. Hand on the belly or chest, the words are to the extent I am able, I release, I let go. It closes on deep breaths, released through the mouth.

  • Guided Meditation - Simply Being with the Urge to Be Busy 19 minutes

    Refuge and bodhicitta open it, then the body is given permission to come to rest in stillness, the fidgeting and habitual moving being the evening's subject. The breathing slows, and each out breath releases thoughts rather than throwing them. We open attention wide to sounds, sensations and the movements of the mind, attentive without grasping at anything. Each time restlessness or boredom insists you should be doing something, David has you notice that and come back to simply being.

  • Guided Meditation - Settling Body, Speech and Mind in Their Natural States 25 minutes

    Lama Alan Wallace leads the three settlings in turn. You let awareness descend through the whole field of tactile sensation, releasing tension from shoulders, jaw and forehead until the body rests in relaxation, stillness and vigilance. Then you relinquish control of the breath and let the body breathe as if asleep, releasing involuntary thoughts with each out breath. Attention is finally held within the field of the body, like a horse in a corral, quietly observing whatever arises.

  • Guided Meditation - Vipashyana, Searching the Mind for Shape, Size and Location 24 minutes

    With the body settled and your eyes partly open, Lama Alan asks you to place your mind in the space before you, then look for whatever it was you placed. Is there a single entity that thinks, remembers and perceives? Is it the same from moment to moment? The inquiry narrows to one question: if the mind exists it must have characteristics, so does it have shape, size or location? It ends with you still searching, in silence.

  • Guided Meditation - The Three Marks of Existence, from Recollection to Direct Inquiry 13 minutes

    Lama Alan begins with a review of your own past: times you held something fleeting as though it were durable, took a person or place to be the true source of your happiness, or grasped what is not yours as I and mine. You then turn to the space of the mind and put the same three questions to experience. Is anything here unchanging? Is any appearance a real well of happiness or suffering? Does anything carry the mark of I?

  • Guided Meditation - Mindfulness of Feeling Tone Across the Five Senses 23 minutes

    Lama Alan opens your awareness to the five physical senses, sight, sound, smell, taste and touch, resting in bare attention with the mental domain set aside. The practice then moves to the second application of mindfulness: not the sensations but the feeling tone that comes with them, pleasant, unpleasant or neutral. When an urge to move arises you stay still and study the discomfort behind it. You end by asking whether these feelings are in any way yours.

  • Guided Meditation - A Body Scan of Feeling Tone, Pleasant, Unpleasant and Neutral 25 minutes

    Lama Alan leads a scan of the whole body, moving a field of awareness from the crown through head, arms, torso and legs, noting at each place not the sensation itself but whether it feels pleasant, unpleasant or neutral. You stay still, and when the impulse to shift arises you examine the feeling behind it. The scan then opens to the whole body, where you ask how feelings arise and dissolve, and whether you can attend without grasping or preference.

  • Guided Meditation - The Nature of Mental Events, How Thoughts Arise and Dissolve 24 minutes

    With the gaze vacant and the mind settled in its natural state, you turn to the field of the mind and inspect the events arising there. Lama Alan asks how thoughts and images emerge, from where, whether they hold still or change, and how they dissolve. When you find yourself caught up in a thought, that thought becomes the object rather than a distraction. The practice then continues in silence to the close.

  • Guided Meditation - Open Awareness of the Six Senses, Noting Patterns of Causality 22 minutes

    You open your awareness to all six sense fields and rest there without distraction or grasping. Rather than simply noting what arises, Lama Alan invites a wider view, watching how one appearance gives rise to another, a thought to an emotion, a sensation to a thought. There is no mechanism to find, only patterns of dependence. You let the will stay passive, taking no ownership, and the session continues in silence.

  • Guided Meditation - Loving Kindness for Oneself, Envisioning Freedom and Fulfilment 23 minutes

    Lama Alan turns loving kindness inwards, towards yourself. You ask what you most wish for and have not yet found, what is missing, and what stands in the way of your own wellbeing, seeing clearly that you are not those habits and states of mind. With each out breath you arouse the yearning to be free of them and to find genuine happiness, envisioning that freedom and fulfilment realised here and now.

  • Guided Meditation - Loving Kindness for Oneself, Envisioning Flourishing, Receiving and Offering 26 minutes

    Loving kindness begins with yourself. Lama Alan asks you to envision your own wellbeing, then to picture all you would love to receive from other people and the natural world, flowing in as effortlessly as the breath. You consider which habits you would love to be free of and which qualities you would love to be endowed with, then what you would love to offer the world. The session closes with a moment of simple presence.

  • Guided Meditation - Loving Kindness for Oneself at Your Worst and at Your Best 25 minutes

    Lama Alan turns loving kindness towards yourself, in two directions at once. You recall a day when your mind was in turmoil and your behaviour at its worst, then look past the affliction to the person underneath who only ever wanted to be happy, and wish them free. Then you recall yourself at your best, kind and patient, and wish that person well too. The session closes by releasing every thought.

  • Guided Meditation - Loving Kindness for Oneself, Envisioning Genuine Happiness 26 minutes

    You begin by envisioning genuine happiness: a well-being with roots deep enough to survive praise and ridicule, gain and loss, kindness and cruelty from others. Lama Alan invites you to imagine that capacity already within you, visualised as a radiant orb of white light at your heart, and with each out breath to send its rays through your whole being. The field then widens to everyone around you, before a closing rest.

  • Guided Meditation - Loving Kindness for a Loved One, Asking What They Long For 25 minutes

    Lama Alan asks you to bring to mind one person you hold dear and to attend closely to what they long for: what obstructs their happiness, and how they picture it. With each out breath you send the breath of loving kindness, wishing them free of every encumbrance and imagining them realising their heart's desire. The session then closes resting within the field of your own body, present to sensation without grasping.

  • Guided Meditation - Loving Kindness, the Four Aspirations from I to We 22 minutes

    After several quiet minutes settling the mind in its natural state, Lama Alan draws on what the Dalai Lama calls the deepest impulse of the heart: caring whether you suffer or flourish. You breathe a fourfold aspiration, to be free of hatred and ill will, of physical pain, of anxiety, and to be well and happy. Then the I becomes we, and the same four wishes widen through the room, the city and outwards in every direction.

  • Guided Meditation - Loving Kindness for a Neutral Person and Someone You Find Difficult 25 minutes

    Lama Alan Wallace carries the sequence of loving kindness out to a neutral person, someone you know but barely notice. You picture them vividly, even imagine being them, and offer the four aspirations breath by breath. Then you bring to mind someone you find disagreeable and examine the cartoon you have made of them. Looking past behaviour to the wish for happiness beneath it, you extend the same aspirations, then open in every direction to all beings.

  • Guided Meditation - Unconditional Loving Kindness, Beginning with Yourself at Your Worst 25 minutes

    Can you love yourself at your worst? Lama Alan Wallace begins here, asking you to recall an episode of your own regrettable behaviour and to distinguish the person from the afflictions and habits that gripped them. You offer yourself the four aspirations. The same recognition then extends to someone whose conduct has clearly harmed others, and finally to a person who has harmed you, met as a brother or sister in the same predicament.

  • Guided Meditation - Loving Kindness, Radiating Light from the Heart 25 minutes

    Lama Alan Wallace turns from present sensation to imagination, inviting you to envision your own flourishing in detail: what you would love your life to become, and the deeper wishes beneath that. You picture the pure ground of your awareness as a small orb of white light at the heart, radiating through your whole being with each out-breath. The light then flows to a dear friend, and to someone whose voice you would be glad to hear.

  • Guided Meditation - Compassion, Beginning with Your Own Suffering 26 minutes

    Compassion is the heartfelt wish to be free of suffering and its causes, and Lama Alan Wallace begins with your own. You weigh how much mental suffering you have already borne and how little control you have over circumstances, then imagine freedom as an orb of white light at the heart. With each in-breath you draw in the darkness of past and future suffering and dissolve it there. You then do the same for others, closing in simple awareness.

  • Guided Meditation - Compassion, Attending to the Core Causes of Suffering 25 minutes

    Lama Alan Wallace turns compassion towards the roots of suffering rather than its symptoms. You recall times when delusion, craving or hostility dominated your mind, and with each in-breath you draw that darkness into an orb of light at the heart, dissolving it and imagining yourself free. You then rehearse future situations that would once have triggered the same patterns. It closes by extending the same wish to someone you have known to be heavily afflicted.

  • Guided Meditation - Tonglen, Breathing In the Causes of Suffering 25 minutes

    Lama Alan begins from the flow of caring that runs through every choice you make, then imbues it with insight. He reasons through why the true causes of suffering lie in the mind rather than in circumstances: delusion, craving and hostility. Using only the in-breath, you draw those afflictions in as a dark cloud and dissolve them in the light at your heart, imagining the enduring peace. You close by wishing the same freedom for someone heavily afflicted.

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