The CSM Podcast is again with a Dharma discuss from David Nichtern about stepping onto the trail of meditation and settling into apply.

It’s the new 12 months, now could be the time to sit down down, settle in and dig into mindfulness and meditation apply. The query is, what are you doing that will get in the way in which of your apply taking root? On this episode, David affords knowledge that each starting or struggling meditator wants to listen to.

“There’s one other expression of apply, ‘Hasten slowly and you’ll quickly arrive.’ There’s a built-in pressure between our momentum to strive to not be the place we’re… and this intuition that’s coming in simply to settle in and be who we’re; the place we’re; once we are. We’re going to let that play out a bit bit… We’re not essentially going to outsmart it – manipulate it and bend it to our will – after which then again we aren’t going to have the ability to keep away from it. Then you might be within the candy spot, and I believe that may be a type of texture of apply that may be very highly effective.” – David Nichtern 

On January tenth, take the chance to find out about Dharma Moon’s Yearlong Buddhist Research course starting in January 2023: FREE YEARLONG BUDDHIST STUDIES INFO SESSION WITH ETHAN NICHTERN, SHANNON WATTS, and SHELLY TYGIELSKI 

Ethan Nichtern affords knowledge for cultivating a sustainable meditation apply on The Highway House Podcast Ep.31

About David Nichtern: 

David Nichtern, founding father of Dharma Moon, is a senior Buddhist trainer who has been working towards and educating meditation for over 40 years.

He was one of many preliminary American college students of famend meditation grasp Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and studied intently with him quickly after his arrival in the USA in 1970. He’s additionally a enterprise advisor with firms creating a wide range of choices integrating meditation in a bigger well being and well-being context – together with Goldman Sachs, Journey Meditation, Artistic Dwell, True Nature Meditation (Tokyo), Balanced Athlete, The Middle for Well being & Therapeutic, Om Births, and Kobre & Kim legislation agency amongst others.

He has been featured in The New York Instances, FOX Information, Netflix’s The Midnight Gospel, Huffington Put up, The Buddhist Geeks podcast, Duncan Trussell Household Hour Podcast, Pete Holmes’ You Made it Bizarre Podcast, and plenty of others. David is the writer of the critically acclaimed Awakening From the Daydream: Reimagining The Buddha’s Wheel of Life and his not too long ago launched Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck. He mentors particular person college students each in individual and on-line, and leads meditation trainer coaching applications all over the world.

David can also be a a number of Grammy-nominated and Emmy award-winning musician. He has recorded and performed with Stevie Marvel, Christopher Visitor, Jerry Garcia, Lana Del Rey, Maria Muldaur, Paul Simon and plenty of others. Amongst his many credit in information, movie and TV, David wrote the traditional tune “Midnight on the Oasis” and has produced a number of information for and periodically excursions with Grammy-nominated kirtan artist Krishna Das.

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