The Heart Practices Meditation Drop-In Group

FRIDAYS
7:00 – 8:15 PM

RSVP or Just Show Up!

$20 Benefactor; $10 Sustainer; $5 Scholarship

All are welcome. Chairs and cushions are provided.

Are you stressed and tense from a long work week?

Would you like to learn to “let go” of this stress?

Would you like to be more relaxed heading into the weekend?

The intention of this group is to explore the Buddhist Heart Practices, also called the Four Immeasurables or the Brahma-viharas. These mindfulness practices of loving-kindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity represent the most beautiful and hopeful aspects of our human nature by transforming the turbulent heart into a calm refuge of focused awareness. They protect the mind from falling into habitual patterns of reactivity and help keep us in balance. They awaken powerful healing energies, which brighten and lift the heart and mind to increasing levels of clarity. As a result, these boundless heart qualities can be truly centering and transformative.

Vipassana or Insight Mediation cultivates two wings of the practice:

Wisdom and Compassion. Wisdom is the concentration we develop to see clearly, to see what truly exists. This class will focus on strengthening the wing of Compassion through the Heart Practices.

The weekly class will generally includes:

  • Welcome
  • 25-30 minute guided meditation
  • Check-in/discussion
  • Short Dharmette Talk
  • Closing reflective mediation

Ray Manyoky

About Ray Manyoky

Ray began his Vipassana meditation practice to alleviate his depression and anxiety. Ray currently teaches the Friday Night Heart Practices Meditation Class at the Frederick Meditation Center (FMC), hosts the Frederick Dharma Book Club at FMC, is an IMCW Meditation Mentor, co-leads a Kalyana Metta group, and co-facilitates Jonathan Foust’s post-dharma talk Discussion Group. Ray is enrolled in Tara Brach’s and Jack Kornfield’s two year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certified Program (MMTCP). He regularly attends IMCW dharma talks and meditations led by Jonathan Foust, Tara Brach, and Adam Silcott. Ray is an alumni of Jonathan Foust’s The Year of Living Mindfully.

Ray has attended IMCW day long workshops taught by Tara, Jonathan, Hugh Byrne, Sharon Salzburg and Stan Eisenstein, and weeklong silent retreats at Bhavana Society. Ray is inspired by dharma teachers: Tara Brach, Jonathan Foust, Josh Korda, Joseph Goldstein and Bhante G.