Working Skillfully with Pain ~ A Guided Meditation ~ Samaneri Jayasara

About this episode

This episode features a guided meditation focused on skillfully working with pain through mindfulness and Buddhist teachings.

This guided meditation offers a gentle and compassionate way of working with pain in practice. Beginning with grounding awareness in the body and the natural rhythm of the breath, it invites you to settle the mind through calm presence and embodied attention. From this foundation, the meditation introduces the Buddhist teaching of the “two arrows” — the understanding that while physical pain may be an unavoidable part of human life, much of our suffering comes from the second arrow: the mind’s resistance, fear, tension, and identification around the experience.Through careful guidance, you are encouraged to explore pain not as an enemy to fight or suppress, but as a changing field of sensation that can be met with wisdom, curiosity, and kindness. The practice helps illuminate the difference between direct physical experience and the layers of mental suffering we unconsciously add to it. 🙏 May whatever goodness arises from these readings/offerings be for the benefit of all sentient beings. 🔆 These podcasts are not monetized. If you benefit from these podcasts and would like to support our nun's hermitage, there are two options to donate - via Paypal using this email address…

People in this episode

Host: Samaneri Jayasara

Topics covered

• meditation
• pain management
• Buddhism
• mindfulness
• spirituality

Keywords

• guided meditation
• pain
• Buddhism
• mindfulness
• suffering
• awareness
• breath

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Working Skillfully with Pain ~ A Guided Meditation, Buddhist teaching of the “two arrows”

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