Moon Pointing

Talks by Nikki Mirghafori

Date Title
2026-03-16 Loving Oneself as if a Beloved Other; Taking Responsibility through Love
2025-05-02 Guided Meditation: Lovingkindness for the Community; Dharmette: Sangha (5/5) Six Principles of Cordiality (sāraṇīya-dhammas)
2025-05-01 Guided Meditation: Tuning into Generosity of Spirit; Dharmette: Sangha (4/5) Four Means of Embracing Others
2025-04-30 Guided Meditation: Seeing with Another’s Heart; Dharmette: Sangha (3/5) Putting Oneself in the Place of Others (Ethical Empathy)
2025-04-29 Dharmette: Sangha 1/5: Power of Spiritual Friendship - Kalyāṇamittatā; Dharmette: Sangha 2/5 - Qualities of a Good Friend - Kalyāṇa/suhadaya/upakāraka mitta
2025-04-28 Guided Meditation: Gratitude for Noble Friends/Benefactors
2025-02-07 Happy Hour: Metta Shapeshifts into Compassion as it Meets Pain
2025-02-06 Happy Hour: Metta for this moment in time, and "what's not wrong" right now?
2025-01-02 Happy Hour: Launching Ourselves into the New Year with Aspirations of Kindness
2024-12-31 Happy Hour: Appreciation & Loving-Kindness Retrospective at Year's End
2024-12-24 Happy Hour: Lovingly Cultivating Stability of Heart-Mind
2024-12-19 Happy Hour: Taking Our Seat in the Community with Goodwill for All
2024-11-28 Happy Hour: Expanding the Heart with Simple, Gentle Gratitude
2024-11-26 Happy Hour: The Happiness of Release
2024-11-21 Happy Hour: Practicing Loving-Kindness Where It's Easiest
2024-11-14 Happy Hour: Feeling Supported and Offering Care through the Invisible Web of Interconnection
2024-11-12 Happy Hour: Spacious, Kind Interest... (and Intention vs. Agenda)
2024-11-08 Happy Hour: Equipoise and Balance as Support in Everyday Interactions
2024-11-07 Happy Hour: Cultivating Stability to Be With What Is With Presence & Self-Care
2024-11-06 Happy Hour: Practicing Equanimity on US Election Day
2024-09-16 Don't Delay
2024-08-27 Happy Hour: Putting It Down Gently
2024-08-23 Guided Med: Delight arising from Confidence; Dharmette: Trust (5/5) The Ultimate Fruit of Confidence (Saddhā)
2024-08-22 Guided Med: Confidence Here and Now; Dharmette: Trust (4/5) Overcoming Doubt, Whether Gross or Subtle
2024-08-21 Guided Med: Know Breath & Impermanence to Cultivate Confidence; Dharmette: Trust 3/5: Practice & Ethical Conduct Build Confidence
2024-08-20 Happy Hour: Metta for Self
2024-08-20 Guided Med: Sources of Confidence
2024-08-19 Guided Meditation: Touching the Earth for Stability; Dharmette: Trust (1 of 5); Borrowed & Verified Trust
2024-04-18 Happy Hour: Practicing for the Sake of Myself and Others
2024-04-16 Happy Hour: Holding Peace for Ourselves, Relationships, and the World
2024-04-11 Happy Hour: Compassion as Equal Measures of Empathy and Love
2024-04-09 Happy Hour: Awe, Sympathetic Joy, Equanimity, and Gratitude Through the Lens of the Total Eclipse
2024-03-19 Happy Hour: In Praise of a Loving Pause
2024-03-14 Happy Hour: Uplifting Our Heart through Sympathetic Joy
2024-03-12 Happy Hour: Equanimity as Warm-Hearted Balance -- Expanding our Capacity to Be With Life
2023-12-28 Happy Hour: Brightening Our State of Mind-Heart
2023-12-21 Happy Hour: Mister Rogers Neighborhood Metta Practice -- Making Ourselves Safe for Self and Others
2023-12-19 Happy Hour: Reflecting on the Good Fortune of Having Good Friends (AN 11.13)
2023-12-07 Happy Hour: I Am the Principal Beneficiary of My Goodwill
2023-12-05 Happy Hour: Taking the Side of Peace
2023-11-25 Happy Hour: Embodied Gratitude
2023-11-23 Happy Hour: Simple, Yet Profound, Gratitude
2023-11-21 Happy Hour: Compassion for the Suffering We Cause Through Self-ing
2023-11-07 Happy Hour: An Embodied, Caring Presence
2023-11-02 Happy Hour: Compassion As a Gravitational Force to Shape Humanity's Space and Time
2023-10-19 Happy Hour: Compassion as the Air We Breathe
2023-10-17 Happy Hour: Compassion From the Inside Out
2023-10-14 Happy Hour: Holding Sacred Space for Peace with Compassion
2023-10-12 Happy Hour: Compassion 360 Degrees for All Beings Who Are Suffering Right Now
2023-10-10 Happy Hour: Loving Self-Inquiry
2023-10-07 Happy Hour: Radical Friendliness
2023-10-05 Happy Hour: Living This Moment Of Your Life As If It Really Matters (Because It Does)
2023-09-30 Happy Hour: Choosing Peace and Kindness
2023-09-29 Meditation: Turning Toward Cognizing;; The Five Aggregates (5/5) Consciousness & Shifting, Co-Arising Experience
2023-09-28 Happy Hour: Recognizing Goodness
2023-09-28 Meditation: Seeing Volitional Formations; The Five Aggregates (4/5) Mental Formations & Karma
2023-09-27 Guided Meditation: Recognizing Recognition (Sanna); The Five Aggregates (3/5) Dependently-Arising Pattern Recognition (Sanna)
2023-09-26 Meditation: Sensations' Flow & Feeling Tone (Vedana); The Five Aggregates (2/5) Phenomenology of the Four Elements Practice & Vedana's impersonality
2023-09-26 Happy Hour: Exploring Love Without Attachment
2023-09-25 Meditation: Marveling at the Flow of Sensations; Dharmette: The Five Aggregates (1/5) Intro & Body/Form (Rupa)
2023-05-25 Happy Hour: Cultivating JOMO & JOP -- the "Joy of Missing Out" and the "Joy of Presence"
2023-03-31 Guided Meditation: Being the Inner Buddha; Life as Improv (5/5) Co-Created Characters in the Play Called Life
2023-02-23 Happy Hour: Celebrating Our Goodness
2023-01-17 Happy Hour: Push Away Nothing, Include Everything with Kind Awareness
2022-07-21 Happy Hour: The Kindness of Sufficiency
2021-11-23 Happy Hour: Gratitude For What We Take For Granted
2021-10-12 Happy Hour: Gratitude and Metta for Ancestors
2021-10-09 Happy Hour: Joy!
2021-10-05 Happy Hour: Practicing Metta as Generosity
2021-10-02 Happy Hour: Gratitude Circle
2021-08-21 Happy Hour: A Metta Vigil for the World
2021-08-07 Happy Hour: Metta and (Spiritual) Friendship
2021-07-01 Happy Hour: Not Choosing Wind-Drag
2021-01-30 Happy Hour: Radiating Kindness & Love With Each Breath
2020-12-05 Happy Hour: Appreciation and Calm Abiding
2020-11-03 Happy Hour: Pre-Election Equanimity Practice
2020-10-15 Happy Hour: Pillars of Joy (5/8) -- Forgiveness II
2020-10-03 Happy Hour: Pillars of Joy (1/8) - Perspective III
2020-09-29 Happy Hour: Connection and Community; Happy Hour: Pillars of Joy (1/8) - Perspective I
2020-08-14 Happy Hour: Metta and Wise Perspective
2020-07-02 Happy Hour: Should-Free Gratitude Practice
2019-09-22 Our Perceptions of Time