Wild Heart Meditation Center

Mikey Noechel offers a guided meditation on compassion towards self.May I open up to the pain and difficulties in my life.May I care for the pain and difficulties in my life.May I be free from suffering.

Mikey Noechel offers a guided meditation on loving kindness towards a benefactor.May you be at ease.May you be at peace.May you be kind and gentle with yourself.May you be filled with loving kindness. 

Andrew discusses the 4th factor of the Buddha's eightfold path, "Wise Action". In order to bring better clarity to discerning the skillfulness and appropriateness of our behavior, we must first look at Wise View and Intention as a way to challenge the distortions of perception and the aspirational principles that should be guiding our decisions; this lays the foundation for embodying these principles instead of just "believing in them". As we learn to embody principles in our lives, we can move into the world into a place of engagement that is better in line with our values and moves us towards more collective harmony and peace as a society.

Mikey Noechel offers a guided meditation on loving kindness towards self. "May I be at ease.May I be at peace.May I be kind and gentle with this experience.May I be full of loving kindness."

In this episode Katie Burke reads the Metta Sutta, the discourse on Loving Kindness. 

Andrew discusses the Buddha's teaching on the "middle path", as well as the personal experience of losing and rediscovering one's spiritual path.

In this episode, Andrew speaks to the necessity of developing a long-enduring mind on the path of awakening, and a few of the experiences that we will need to endure along the path.

In this episode, Andrew lays out the fundamental principles of cultivating compassion. Enjoy!

In this episode Katie Burke reads the Satipatthana Sutta, the discourse on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. First Foundation: Mindfulness of Breath and BodySecond Foundation: Mindfulness of Feeling ToneThird Foundation: Mindfulness of MindForth Foundation: Mindfulness of Dhammas 

Andrew offers some reflections on Impermanence, Change, and Loss & how leaning into these inevitable truths of life can bring about urgency and direction for spiritual practice.

In this episode, Andrew discusses the 4 applications of mindfulness - simple awareness, protective awareness, introspective awareness, and reflective awareness.

In this episode, Mikey Noechel discusses the first verse of the Dhammapada and how suffering is made in the mind."All dhammas are preceded by the mind.They governed by the mind and formed by the mind.If one speaks or acts with an impure mindsuffering follows from there fromjust as the wheel of the cart follows the ox that pulls it.'

In this episode, Andrew discusses the importance of "seeing the goodness" in our lives. The Buddha taught that gratitude and sympathetic joy were important antidotes to misery and jealousy. How can we actively cultivate these mind states in our lives?

In this episode, Andrew discusses how liberating insight is only developed if we take the time to cultivate the conditions that support it. He also talks about the concept of "sudden awakening, gradual cultivation".

In this episode Mikey Noechel discusses the enemies of compassion. The far enemies, which are known as the furtherest things from compassion, are violence and cruelty. The near enemies of compassion are the things we may confuse with compassion, which are pity and despair. 

In this episode Mikey Noechel discusses the four Brahma Viharas, which are also know as the Heart Practices.Loving Kindness (Metta)Compassion (Karuna)Sympathetic Joy (Mudita)Equanimity (Upekkha)

Spirit Rock Meditation Center teacher, Tempel Smith, visits Wild Heart Nashville and discusses the power of unconscious habits, and how mindfulness can be an essential tool for uncovering and dismantling these habits.

In this episode, Andrew discusses one of the most cliche but perhaps essential aspects of the Buddhist path, letting go. When we hold onto impermanent things, we suffer tremendously. But this means that we must be willing then to confront the fear that comes from surrender.

Katie offers a guided meditation of Mudita or sympathetic joy

In this episode, Andrew discusses the metaphor of the "Realm of the Hungry Ghosts", which in Buddhist cosmology is the realm of an "insatiable thirst" and "longing for more" that is so much the cause of much of our unhappiness in life.