The Robert Beatty Podcast

Robert Beatty
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These are teachings on Mindfulness and contemporary Buddhism by Robert Beatty. Robert is a Dharma and Meditation teacher in the lineage of Ruth Denison. He has been teaching for 45 years.

  1. FEB 2

    I Had a Dream of an Easy Life A Poem by Monica Hall

    Performed by Robert Beatty with Saffire Bouchellion on hand pan accompaniment Hey friend — I used to dream of a flawless, straight-line life: honors, applause, zero heartbreak. But every perfect picture felt empty compared to this messy, raw, and strangely beautiful life I actually live. So here's to the tangled parts, the surprising joy, and the scars that made us: I’m grateful for the chaos that shaped me. Come sit with me — we’ll laugh, ache, and celebrate it together.   🙏 SUPPORT THIS WORK These teachings are offered freely in the Buddhist tradition of dana (generosity). If this practice benefits you, please consider supporting: linktr.ee/robertbeatty 📚 NEW CLASSES & RETREATS - STARTING FEBRUARY 2026 Love & Happiness: The Four Brahma Viharas - 10-week course, starts Feb 18 Mindfulness for the Awakened Heart - Thursday evening drop-in, starts Feb 26 Remembering Death - One-day retreat, Feb 21 Details & registration: robertbeatty.com 🧘 PRACTICE WITH ROBERT Morning Meditation (weekdays 6:30-7:15am PST) - robertbeatty.com Individual Guidance (first session free) - robertbeatty.com YouTube: youtube.com/@RobertBeattyBuddhistMeditation Newsletter: substack.com/@robertbeattymeditation #meditation #guidedmeditation #mindfulness #Buddhism #metta #lovingkindness #dharma #vipassana #InsightMeditation #lifeaffirmingdharma

    3 min

  2. JAN 26

    Sit in the One Seat: A Meditation by Ajahn Chah

    Please come sit with me for a moment. Imagine you are in a comfortable chair in the middle of a six-sided room and notice the simple invitation: stay here, breathe, and turn your attention to whatever comes through the windows of seeing, hearing, touch, smell, and mind. No judgments, no chasing thoughts — just gentle reminders to return to the one seat and be here now. It’s small, but it changes everything.   🙏 SUPPORT THIS WORK These teachings are offered freely in the Buddhist tradition of dana (generosity). If this practice benefits you, please consider supporting: linktr.ee/robertbeatty

    9 min

  3. JAN 26

    I Love You (With Your Name at the End): A Simple Practice to Heal

    Hey — take a breath. This practice flips the mind’s old critical tapes by inserting one new, gentle line: “I love you” with your name at the end. Say it to your newborn self, your present body, or in a hard memory — no reasons needed. It’s small, immediate, and surprisingly powerful. Whisper your name, let the kindness land, and carry that warmth with you through the day.   This practice flips the mind’s old critical tapes by inserting one new, gentle line: “I love you” with your name at the end. Imagine that your hands are the first to hold your newborn self.  "I love you " to your present self just as you are. Inhabit a challending memory or situation and say "I love you"  No reasons needed. It’s small, immediate, and surprisingly powerful. Whisper your name, let the kindness land, and carry that warmth with you through the day.   🙏 SUPPORT THIS WORK These teachings are offered freely in the Buddhist tradition of dana (generosity). If this practice benefits you, please consider supporting: linktr.ee/robertbeatty 📚 NEW CLASSES & RETREATS - STARTING FEBRUARY 2026-  robertbeatty.com Love & Happiness: The Four Heart Practices- 10-week course, starts Feb 18 - Mindfulness for the Awakened Heart - Thursday evening drop-in, starts Feb 26 - Remembering Death - One-day retreat, Feb 21 Details & registration: robertbeatty.com 🧘 - Morning Meditation (weekdays 6:30-7:15am PST) - robertbeatty.com - Individual Guidance (first session free) - robertbeatty.com - YouTube: youtube.com/@RobertBeattyBuddhistMeditation - Newsletter: substack.com/@robertbeattymeditation - Instagram: @dharmarobert #meditation #guidedmeditation #Buddhism #dharma #vipassana

    18 min

  4. 12/28/2025

    6: Intro to Mindfulness Meditation: Difficult Emotions, Compassion and Awakening

    This is the last of six guided meditations, which will provide you with a firm foundation to begin and deepen your mindfulness, insight, meditation practice. This session provides guidance in how to work with difficult emotions.  We tend to delight in pleasant emotions and struggle to get rid of the unpleasant ones.  Mindfulness will allow you to meet emotions of all kinds as guides and teachers. When challenging emotions are present we are guided to turn toward them with love and compassion: to embrace rather than hate them.  As we allow ourselves to become intimate with them they reveal their true impermanent and impersonal nature. we learn to rest with our hearts open in the middle of all of the challenges of life.    🙏 SUPPORT THIS WORK These teachings are offered freely in the Buddhist tradition of dana (generosity). If this practice benefits you, please consider supporting: linktr.ee/robertbeatty   📿 MORE RESOURCES - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@robertbeattybuddhistmeditation - Website: robertbeatty.com - Weekly Thursday meditation class (starting January 2025) - Individual sessions (first session free)

    13 min

  5. 12/28/2025

    5. Intro to Mindfulness Meditation: Restlessness Agitation, Sloth and Torpor, and Doubt

    This is the fifth of six introductory guided meditations, which will provide you with a firm foundation to begin and deepen your mindfulness, insight, meditation practice. This session introduces you to the final three of the five hindrances: Restlessnes and Agitation, Sloth and Torpor, and Doubt. When the mind is too energized, low energy or filled with doubt, knowing how to bring awareness and wisdom to them is the path to letting them be so they weaken and vanish,  🙏 SUPPORT THIS WORK These teachings are offered freely in the Buddhist tradition of dana (generosity). If this practice benefits you, please consider supporting: linktr.ee/robertbeatty   📿 MORE RESOURCES - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@robertbeattybuddhistmeditation - Website: robertbeatty.com - Weekly Thursday meditation class (starting January 2025) - Individual sessions (first session free)

    20 min

  6. 12/28/2025

    4 Intro to Mindfulness Meditation: Craving/Desire and Aversion/Disliking The First Two Hindrances

    This is the fourth of six introductory guided meditations: Sometimes one can hardly find the breath to use it as a training object. At such times a meditator can up-level the game and become aware of which of the Five Hindrances are present. The first two form a polarity: Craving and Aversion. Rather than struggle to stop or banish these powerful and natural life energies one learns how to acknowledge and accept them and in so doing to reduce their power and capacity to pull us into delusion.  The guidance is heart-centered and creates an atmosphere of kindness and compassion to allow awakening to ripen.    🙏 SUPPORT THIS WORK These teachings are offered freely in the Buddhist tradition of dana (generosity). If this practice benefits you, please consider supporting: linktr.ee/robertbeatty   📿 MORE RESOURCES - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@robertbeattybuddhistmeditation - Website: robertbeatty.com - Weekly Thursday meditation class (starting January 2025) - Individual sessions (first session free)

    20 min

  7. 12/28/2025

    3 Intro to Mindfulness Meditation: Stress, Anxiety and Coming Home to the Body

    This is the third of six guided meditations. It focuses on stress, anxiety and restlessness and teaches you to  you come home to the life of the body in the present moment. The guidance is heart-centered and creates an atmosphere of kindness and compassion to allow awakening to ripen.    🙏 SUPPORT THIS WORK These teachings are offered freely in the Buddhist tradition of dana (generosity). If this practice benefits you, please consider supporting: linktr.ee/robertbeatty   📿 MORE RESOURCES - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@robertbeattybuddhistmeditation - Website: robertbeatty.com - Weekly Thursday meditation class (starting January 2025) - Individual sessions (first session free)

    17 min

  8. 12/28/2025

    2: Intro to Mindfulness Meditation; The Wandering Mind is not an Enemy

    This is the second of six guided meditations, which will provide you with a firm foundation to begin and deepen your mindfulness, insight, meditation practice. This session introduces you to how to work with the wandering mind. It will help you escape the pointless and dispiriting battle of trying to silence the mind. The guidance is heart-centered and creates an atmosphere of kindness and compassion to allow awakening to ripen.    🙏 SUPPORT THIS WORK These teachings are offered freely in the Buddhist tradition of dana (generosity). If this practice benefits you, please consider supporting: linktr.ee/robertbeatty   📿 MORE RESOURCES - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@robertbeattybuddhistmeditation - Website: robertbeatty.com - Weekly Thursday meditation class (starting January 2025) - Individual sessions (first session free)

    16 min
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These are teachings on Mindfulness and contemporary Buddhism by Robert Beatty. Robert is a Dharma and Meditation teacher in the lineage of Ruth Denison. He has been teaching for 45 years.

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  • Creator
    Robert Beatty
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    96
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © @ 2005–2024 Robert Beatty. All Rights Reserved.
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