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Talks by Nikki Mirghafori

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Date Title
2026-05-22 Guided Meditation: Letting Go of the Present; Dharmette: Time (5 of 5) Freedom Beyond Time
2026-05-21 Guided Meditation: Awareness of My Limited Time; Dharmette: Time (4 of 5) The Days and Nights Are Relentlessly Passing
2026-05-21 Guided Meditation: Listening to Body Time; Dharmette: Time (3 of 5); Embodied Time and Mechanical Time
2026-05-20 Guided Meditation: Who Am I Across Time?; Dharmette: Time (2 of 5) Frozen in Time
2026-05-19 Guided Meditation: How Do I Live Time; Dharmette: Time (1 of 5): Rushing Through a Fleeting World
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)
2023-06-01 Happy Hour: Breathing in Kindness, Breathing out Kindness
2023-05-27 Happy Hour: Meeting Ourselves with Kindness
2023-05-25 Happy Hour: Cultivating JOMO & JOP -- the "Joy of Missing Out" and the "Joy of Presence"
2023-05-23 Happy Hour: I Am Home
2023-05-16 Happy Hour: Metta as Friendliness with Our Mind
2023-05-13 Happy Hour: What Choices Are You Cultivating?
2023-05-11 Happy Hour: Befriending Our Mind
2023-05-09 Happy Hour: Dancing in the Rain
2023-05-04 Happy Hour: The Gift of Patience
2023-05-02 Happy Hour: Kind Spaciousness With What Is Already Present Internally
2023-04-22 Happy Hour: Uplifting the Heart Through Wishing Well for All Beings Who Share the Earth
2023-04-21 Guided Meditation: Compassion 360 degrees; Compassion (5/5) The Invisible Force Field of Compassion
2023-04-20 Happy Hour: Grace of Impermanence
2023-04-20 Guided Meditation: Compassion for Entanglements; Dharmette: Compassion (4/5) The Person With Whom We Are Entangled Right Now
2023-04-19 Guided Meditation: Just Like Me; Compassion (3/5) The Goodness of Goodwill for Someone We Don't Know
2023-04-18 Guided Meditation: Compassion for Someone Dear; Dharmette: Compassion (2/5) Empathic Distress vs. Compassion
2023-04-18 Happy Hour: Compassion as Natural as the Air We Breathe
2023-04-17 Guided Meditation: To Meet Pain with Kindness
2023-04-11 Happy Hour: Meeting This Moment As If An Angel of Grace and Possibility
2023-04-09 Guided Meditation: Receptive Awareness of This Moment; The Journey is the Destination
2023-04-08 Happy Hour: Goodwill & Gratitude for Everyday Human Connections
2023-04-06 Happy Hour: The Happiness of Goodwill
2023-04-01 Happy Hour: Watching the Movie of Our Lives with Care, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity
2023-03-31 Guided Meditation: Being the Inner Buddha; Life as Improv (5/5) Co-Created Characters in the Play Called Life
2023-03-30 Happy Hour: Tuning into Quiet Happiness
2023-03-30 Guided Meditation: The Embodied Mind; Life as Improv (4/5) The Importance of Sensing and Leading with the Body
2023-03-29 Guided Meditation: Inspiration, Not Expectation; Dharmette: Life as Improv (3/5) "Chivalry" as Non-Attachment to Ideas
2023-03-28 Happy Hour: Cultivating Kindness through Play and Levity
2023-03-28 Guided Meditation: An Attitude of "Yes!"; Dharmette: Life as Improv (2/5) The Wisdom of "Yes, And..."
2023-03-27 Guided Meditation: Light & Curious as a Child; Dharmette: Life as Improv (1/5) Emptiness & Fullness of the Infinite Game
2023-03-25 Happy Hour: Turning from a Mindset of Scarcity to Gratitude
2023-03-23 Happy Hour: Meeting Every Moment Afresh with Friendliness
2023-03-14 Happy Hour: The Joy of Awareness
2023-03-03 Happy Hour: Contentment vs. Hungry-Ghost Mind
2023-03-01 Happy Hour: Support Is Available
2023-02-23 Happy Hour: Celebrating Our Goodness
2023-02-20 Happy Hour: We Have the Power To Choose Our Perspective
2023-02-15 Happy Hour: To Be Grateful for Everything
2023-02-12 Guided Meditation-Enjoying the breath; In Praise of Collectedness
2023-02-09 Guided Meditation: Noticing Inner Speech -- Is It Beneficial? Idle Chatter? Kind?; Wise Speech (4/5): Not Idle, Beneficial, & Imbued with Loving-Kindness
2023-02-08 Happy Hour: Showing Up at the Party of Humanity with Goodwill
2023-02-08 Guided Meditation: Is My Inner Speech Gentle?; Wise Speech (3/5) Is It Harsh or Gentle? Do No Harm through Speech
2023-02-06 Happy Hour: What Do I Need to Let Go Of?
2023-02-06 Wise Speech (1/5): Is It True and Factual?; Guided Meditation: Noticing Internal Speech
2023-02-03 Happy Hour: Metta as Letting Go of the Heavy Weight of Expectations
2023-01-30 Happy Hour: Cultivating Metta Through Seeing Self & Others Happy
2023-01-25 Happy Hour: Cultivating kindness for oneself through appreciation for another
2023-01-18 Happy Hour: Goodwill and Appreciation for This Body
2023-01-17 Happy Hour: Push Away Nothing, Include Everything with Kind Awareness
2023-01-11 Happy Hour: Deeply Spacious Listening to this Body
2023-01-09 Happy Hour: Simple Unentangled Caring Presence is Profoundly Beautiful
2023-01-06 Happy Hour: Kind Awareness as the Foundation of Goodness
2022-12-19 Happy Hour: Gentle and Fierce Self-Compassion
2022-12-14 Happy Hour: Truthfulness / Wise Speech as a Gift to Ourselves
2022-11-25 Happy Hour: In Praise of Equanimity
2022-11-20 The Gift of Impermanence; Guided Meditation: Noticing Change
2022-10-19 Happy Hour: Seeing Ourselves as Whole
2022-10-17 Happy Hour: The Grace of Getting to Live in a World Where There is Metta / Kindness / Love
2022-10-14 Happy Hour: Metta & the Half Smile of the Buddha
2022-10-07 Happy Hour: Asking for Help
2022-10-05 Happy Hour: Loving Our Aching Body & Heart
2022-10-03 Happy Hour: Compassionate Activism
2022-09-30 Happy Hour: Being Equanimity
2022-09-26 Happy Hour: Taking the High Road, the Road of Compassion & Wisdom
2022-09-19 Happy Hour: Metta and Random Acts of Kindness
2022-09-18 Guided Meditation; The unexpected power of random acts of kindness
2022-09-16 Happy Hour: Equanimity Practice with "It's Ok"
2022-09-12 Happy Hour: Metta as Embodied, Patient Interest
2022-08-12 Happy Hour: To Be Enjoyed, Not Endured
2022-08-10 Happy Hour: Metta for Oneself Supports Giving of Oneself
2022-08-01 Happy Hour: Patience Paves the Path; Happy Hour: Patience Paves the Path
2022-07-29 Dharmette: Mind's Body (5/5) Five Types of Rapture / Energies Moving
2022-07-28 Guided Meditation: Exploring Verticality & Expansiveness; Dharmette: Mind's Body (4/5) Grounded & Spacious with Metta; Guided Meditation: Exploring Verticality & Expansiveness
2022-07-27 Happy Hour: Gladdening the Heart through Appreciation of Kindness and Sharing Metta
2022-07-26 Guided Meditation: Breath in Different Places; Dharmette: Mind's Body (2/5) Energetic Impact of Different Breath Locations
2022-07-25 Dharmette: Mind's Body (1/5) Waking Up in This Fathom-Long Body
2022-07-21 Happy Hour: The Kindness of Sufficiency
2022-07-18 Happy Hour: Listening Through the Conch Shell of Compassion
2022-07-13 Happy Hour: Grandmotherly Mind
2022-07-11 Happy Hour: The Story of the Starfish
2022-07-06 Happy Hour: The Nourishment of Kindness
2022-06-24 Happy Hour: Happiness, Sorrow, and Aspiration
2022-06-22 Happy Hour: Metta in the Lying Down Posture
2022-06-17 Happy Hour: You Matter!
2022-06-15 Happy Hour: Embodied Joy
2022-06-13 Happy Hour: The Soothing Balm of Coming Home to Center
2022-06-10 Happy Hour: Offering Our Kindness as a Shining Light onto the World
2022-06-08 Happy Hour: Kindness for This Body & Self
2022-06-01 Happy Hour: Hello Human Kindness
2022-05-30 Happy Hour: Vicarious Joy
2022-05-27 Happy Hour: Soothing Breath in Each Precious, Passing Moment
2022-05-23 Happy Hour: Forgiving Our Mistakes
2022-05-20 Meditation: Sowing Wholesome Seeds; Karma (5/5) 4 Types of Karma According to the Priority of Effect
2022-05-19 Meditation: Aware in the Midst of the Karmic Stream; Karma (4/5) Reconsidering Rebirth
2022-05-18 Meditation: The Shining Sun of Awareness; Karma (3/5) HOW Are You Engaging Right Now?
2022-05-17 Meditation: Lovingly Knowing Mind's Patterns; Karma (2/5): Awareness Is Key to Shifting Karma
2022-05-16 Happy Hour: Metta Changes Karma
2022-05-16 The Three Inseparable Aspects of Karma; Guided Meditation: Inhabiting Aspirations of the Heart; Karma (1/5) The Three Inseparable Aspects of Karma
2022-05-09 Happy Hour: Metta & Ease
2022-05-06 Happy Hour: Gratitude for Challenges
2022-04-15 Happy Hour: Trust in Our Goodness / Metta for Self
2022-04-11 Happy Hour: The Uses of Sorrow
2022-04-01 Happy Hour: Belonging to the Web of Generosity
2022-03-11 Happy Hour: Gratitude for the Ten Thousand Joys Enables Meeting the Ten Thousand Worldly Sorrows
2022-01-07 Happy Hour: The Arc of Our Lives
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
2021-10-05 Meditation: Practice as Generosity; Generosity (2/5) Dana As An Act of Liberation
2021-10-02 Happy Hour: Gratitude Circle
2021-09-13 Happy Hour: Loving Kindness Increases Feelings of Social Connectedness
2021-08-31 Happy Hour: Metta and Karma
2021-08-21 Happy Hour: A Metta Vigil for the World
2021-08-07 Happy Hour: Metta and (Spiritual) Friendship
2021-07-26 Happy Hour: Nobility of the Mud and Lotus
2021-07-16 Guided Meditation: An Attitude of Peace; Samadhi (5/5) Aspiration vs. Expectation
2021-07-14 Samadhi (3/5) Relaxed Body, Receptive Awareness; Guided Meditation: Relax and Receive
2021-07-14 Happy Hour: Protective Parental Metta for Self
2021-07-05 Happy Hour: Independence, Freedom, and Interdependence
2021-07-01 Happy Hour: Not Choosing Wind-Drag
2021-04-26 Happy Hour: Cultivating Happiness
2021-03-22 Happy Hour: Metta and Wisdom of The Inner Smile
2021-03-01 Happy Hour: Empathetic Joy for All Beings
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