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Chris Luard
Приєднався 22 вер 2009
Guided meditations from Chris Luard: Meditation Teacher, Mystic, Author, Secular Buddhist
www.suchsweetthunder.org
www.suchsweetthunder.org
Awakened Living 12 Week Immersive Online Meditation Program. May 19th-Aug 8th, 2024
Over the twelve weeks of this course we will take a comprehensive and non-sectarian exploration into the earliest teachings of the Buddha. This will include the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, (including the Seven Factors of Awakening and the Five Hindrances) the Four Noble Truths, and the Eightfold Path. Although we will be drawing primarily on the teachings of The Buddha, there is no religion being taught here and people from any and all (or no) religions and beliefs are welcome.
As the course unfolds we will look at numerous mindfulness (heartfulness) based practices, systematically cultivating a continuity of mindful and heartful awareness. This continuity of mindful-heartfuness may allow us to engage in our life experiences with deep sense of wisdom, kindness, curiosity, and care.
The retreat is offered in two sections to cater to different time zones and needs, and meeting twice a once a week:
Section A meets on Sunday and Thursday Mornings from 9am-10:30am. EST
Section B meets on Sunday and Thursday Evenings from 7:30pm-9:00pm. EST
Check your time zone here: www.worldtimebuddy.com/
Each group session will include guided meditations, Q n A, A one to one private session with Chris, interactive discussions with the retreat participants, and the option to join a small study group which will meet at a time to be determined by the group itself.
If you would like to participate, but find these times limiting, please feel free to message Chris here on Facebook or through the website: www.suchsweetthunder.org
The sessions are offered over the Zoom platform and will be recorded and made available to participants so one can attend as much or a little as the live program as suits the participant.
The fee for the complete twelve week offering is as follows:
Benefactor: $800.00 USD.
Sustainer: $400.00 USD.
Basic: $199.00 USD.
Scholarship $130.00 USD.
There are scholarships and financial assistance available, and no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Spaces are limited.
Chris Luard has been practicing meditation for 38 years and has been successfully teaching meditation worldwide since 2009, giving talks, facilitating retreats, and have authored two books.
Chris has received formal training in Zen, Mahamudra and Dzogchen, from the Mahayana (Japanese, Korean, and Tibetan) traditions, Vipassana and early buddhist studies from the Theravada traditions, and Vedanta from the Hindu traditions. In addition to this Chris has received formal instruction from the more modern traditions and modalities such as Secular Buddhism, MBSR, Insight, Somatic Experiencing, Polyvagal Theory, Buddhist Psychology, Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness, Neuroplasticity, and Trauma Healing.
Signing up for this special offering in advance is recommended. To do so, message Chris directly here on FB, chrisluard@yahoo.com or through www.suchsweetthunder.org
May All Benefit.
As the course unfolds we will look at numerous mindfulness (heartfulness) based practices, systematically cultivating a continuity of mindful and heartful awareness. This continuity of mindful-heartfuness may allow us to engage in our life experiences with deep sense of wisdom, kindness, curiosity, and care.
The retreat is offered in two sections to cater to different time zones and needs, and meeting twice a once a week:
Section A meets on Sunday and Thursday Mornings from 9am-10:30am. EST
Section B meets on Sunday and Thursday Evenings from 7:30pm-9:00pm. EST
Check your time zone here: www.worldtimebuddy.com/
Each group session will include guided meditations, Q n A, A one to one private session with Chris, interactive discussions with the retreat participants, and the option to join a small study group which will meet at a time to be determined by the group itself.
If you would like to participate, but find these times limiting, please feel free to message Chris here on Facebook or through the website: www.suchsweetthunder.org
The sessions are offered over the Zoom platform and will be recorded and made available to participants so one can attend as much or a little as the live program as suits the participant.
The fee for the complete twelve week offering is as follows:
Benefactor: $800.00 USD.
Sustainer: $400.00 USD.
Basic: $199.00 USD.
Scholarship $130.00 USD.
There are scholarships and financial assistance available, and no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Spaces are limited.
Chris Luard has been practicing meditation for 38 years and has been successfully teaching meditation worldwide since 2009, giving talks, facilitating retreats, and have authored two books.
Chris has received formal training in Zen, Mahamudra and Dzogchen, from the Mahayana (Japanese, Korean, and Tibetan) traditions, Vipassana and early buddhist studies from the Theravada traditions, and Vedanta from the Hindu traditions. In addition to this Chris has received formal instruction from the more modern traditions and modalities such as Secular Buddhism, MBSR, Insight, Somatic Experiencing, Polyvagal Theory, Buddhist Psychology, Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness, Neuroplasticity, and Trauma Healing.
Signing up for this special offering in advance is recommended. To do so, message Chris directly here on FB, chrisluard@yahoo.com or through www.suchsweetthunder.org
May All Benefit.
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Self-Compassion. The Benefits and How To Apply The Salve
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Please join meditation teacher Chris Luard in an upcoming talk: Self-Compassion. The Benefits and How To Apply The Salve June 8th, 2023. 7pm EST. Facebook And Instagram Live! Chris has been practicing meditation for 37 years and has been successfully teaching meditation worldwide since 2009, giving talks, facilitating retreats, and have authored two books. He has received formal training in The...
Heartfelt Awareness Of Hedonic Tones. A Dharma Talk
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FB Live Dharma Talk: The Superpower of Joy.
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By meditating on the quality of Joy we come to experience joy as an inner quality, rather than something to be had through acquisition. We don’t acquire something which brings us Joy….we have an experience which reminds us of our innate, internal experience of Joy. Join meditation teacher Chris Luard for his next offering: Joy as a superpower. Chris has been practicing meditation for 37 years a...
Heartfelt Awareness: A Fearless Embrace Of Life. A Dharma Talk
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Join meditation teacher Chris Luard for a wisdom talk on this very important and timely topic: Heartfelt Awareness: A Fearless Embrace Of Life. Facebook and Instagram Live! Monday, March 6th, 9:30am EST Chris has been practicing meditation for 37 years and has been successfully teaching meditation worldwide since 2009, giving talks, facilitating retreats, and has authored two books. Chris has r...
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Seems like "patriarch" is a dated term now, especially since there were females in the lineage. What do you think?
Thanks so much. Really appreciate your comment and question. I get where the question is coming from, but the fifth patriarch was a man. If he was a woman I would have said Matriarch. The term is no more outdated than “man” or “woman”
@@Chrisluard_meditations thanks for the reply but the term gets used to describe entire lineages, often times like "the zen patriarchs." Also, the implication of the term in your context is that he inherited the role from a previous man whereas I've heard of women also in the lineages. For example, Bodhidharma is considered a patriarch yet his teacher was a female.
I can hear the birds chirping beautifully
Thank you for sharing dharma talks with the viewers.
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Thank you brother ❤🎉
I believe a Duality deity
Thank you
In Florida she has seen twice I only heard her song and before her murmur
I didn’t see her but her music and suspiros came to me and my daughters, don’t know what it means as we are just simple people
sending compassion ❤
A Valok HItes Vara
If you see this, can you tell me which temple in Vietnam the two deities stand together?
one of my fav tunes well played - particularly like the Marianne Faithful version
I need to learn this so many strange things going on, one of them is an attempt to sign into an account from a Temple near the grand palace , i can only think some monk knows something about my past life or something.
Looking forward 😊
Amazing! Thank you so much. ❤
Thank you for the story. Namo Amituofo 🪷🙏🏼
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara aka Kuan Yin Pusa is NOT "a lesser deity" nor "an angel". Your IGNORANCE is appalling - and you are disseminating FALSE AND INCORRECT information. Educate yourself on what is a MAHA BODHISATTVA.
“By not holding to fixed views, the pure hearted one, having clarity of vision, is freed from suffering” The Metta Sutta.
May you be safe and happy and well. 🙏😊🙏😊
forgive
Hello, do you know where I can find a similar explanation about the story of Manjushri? Thank you
Faces of Compassion: Classic Bodhisattva Archetypes and Their Modern Expression ― An Introduction to Mahayana Buddhism a.co/d/hD53aN9
This may be interesting for you. 😊🙏
Thank you so much! That’s exactly what I was looking for 😄
The sounds of the universe is the sound current you can tune into it is the power of God creating life. Aum, Holy Spirit the Audible life stream, the current to ascend to higher regions.
I will not listen to a laughing punk.
andiwillstillluvyouinfiniteevenifyoudontwanttoheir
laughingreallyisthebest
Hello. Which is a good and reliable source to find the whole story of Kuan Yin? Thank you!
Check out Steven Levine’s book “Becoming Kuan Yin” 🙏😊
Thank you! :) @@Chrisluard_meditations
Shadhu Shadhu Shadhu 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸
Watching this to study before my exam wish me luck lol
Thank you, I want to learn more from you❤
All those years i use only this session to heal, the last months i can not use it anymore for my healing, because like 4 or 5 times there is interruption verry loudly from commercials, So Sadly, How come ?????
I like the "not falling into despair" ... I do this constantly. Thank you for bringing my awareness to this! ❤️
I find that almost as soon as I bring my mind back it strays again; is there anything else that can be done to make meditation easier in this sense?
Thank you 🙏
Those who are addicted to money don't know the language of Bhakti--who have unstable hearts and do not know what is right and wrong--who have unstable hearts must perish by must ordered water.Mother, you are telling me to talk about theology in the middle of them --my mother god kuan yin
This chant opened me up to the dharma and my attempt to keep the precepts. It’s hard right now but I keep taking comfort in the dharma, and Buddha. I’m struggling being part of the sangha.
Thank you for this video. I was Saved by Her. I really was. Mahalo 💌
Don't despair, persevere... Thank you.
Thank you.
Amazing
Excuse me, i am VietNamese I have a question to ask in American people speak " namo Avalokitesvaraya Bodhisattva" or " Namo Quan Yin Bodhisattva" ?
Na-mo 'Va-lo-ki-tesh-va-ra-ya Is the chant I am most familiar with.
Excellent video. I am grateful for hearing, learning. Gracias 🙏🏽💟
Just want to have a correction in the lecture. Hui Neng is VIETNAMESE.
Thank you for this dharma talk.
“Think neither good nor evil … live in the gray area”. “All is void. Where can the dust alight”. Here we have no continuing city. A burden left me as I heard this teaching. Thank you
Thank you for sharing 🙏
@@Chrisluard_meditations because of your response I returned to Hui Neng. Today I found a harmony, a sharing of grey: “… any writer … finds that the things which hurt them and the things that helped them cannot be divorced from each other; they could be helped in a certain way only because they were hurt in a certain way; and their help is simply to be enabled to move from one conundrum to another” NOTES FROM A NATIVE SON, Page 5 James Baldwin 1955
I thought she was originally from Indian culture and later (centuries) incarnated into Chinese culture?
Kuan Yin ☯️ I love you ❤
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I am not sure if you are aware, but your video meditations are hard to hear. The volume is quite low. I love your teachings. I will try to watch it on another computer to see if it's better. Thanks so much.
Hi Rebecca. Thank you for the feedback. I think some of the recordings are better than others. I am happy that you are finding the offerings helpful. 🙏🙏🙏
Bodhi has no tree. The bright mirror is not a stand. Fundamentally, there is nothing. Where could any dust gather?
Whether he really existed or not, the story of Huineng inspires me in many ways.
Yes he did exist. He was Vietnamese.
🙏🙏🙏 Thank you 🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️
Happy Solstice
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