About this episode

Judy Lief discusses the importance of being our own meditation instructors and recognizing the patterns that affect our minds.

[This episode originally aired on June 14, 2022] Since we are the only ones who know what’s really going on during any session of meditation, or in life generally, we have a responsibility to be our own meditation instructors, working with the patterns that capture our particular mind from time to time • many years ago I was introduced to pairs of qualities that can help us in identifying different kind of traps, or extremes, we can fall into, as ways to bring ourselve...

People in this episode

Host: Judy Lief

Topics covered

• meditation
• self-instruction
• mindfulness
• personal responsibility
• buddhism

Keywords

• meditation
• self-instruction
• mindfulness
• buddhism
• personal responsibility

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