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Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation: Exploring Pleasant and Unpleasant Experiences, with a Closing Reflection on Skillful Aversion

Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation: Exploring Pleasant and Unpleasant Experiences, with a Closing Reflection on Skillful Aversion

Update: 2025-12-17
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We start with settling for about 8 minutes followed by about the same time with basic mindfulness practice. Then we explore "moderate" experiences of pleasant or unpleasant when they occur, whether a bodily experience, an emotion, or a thought (or a mix), experiencing pleasant or unpleasant and seeing whether there follows wanting (or not wanting) and reactivity (habitual grasping or pushing away). We close with some reflection on what we explored, with an emphasis on skillful aversion: Was some of the not wanting skillful? Unskillful? What do we find in some daily life examples of aversion? This exploration is related to the talk given a short time later.
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Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation: Exploring Pleasant and Unpleasant Experiences, with a Closing Reflection on Skillful Aversion

Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation: Exploring Pleasant and Unpleasant Experiences, with a Closing Reflection on Skillful Aversion

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