The Backyard Buddhist Podcast

Meditation is about sharpening your sense of awareness.  Over time our conscious awareness gets dulled down and we form attachments to the distractions in our lives instead of the ease of being in the flow of the present moment.  Join Ronn Pawo McLane in this skillfully guided meditation to help retrain your attention to your presence.  

Welcome to the "Embracing Community" guided meditation, designed specifically for gay men on their journey of building intentional and supportive communities. This meditation will help you cultivate mindfulness, compassion, and a deep sense of connection as you embark on this transformative journey. Find a comfortable position, close your eyes, and let us begin. Join Ronn Pawo McLane on this Gentle Journey in Cultivating relationships in your Queer Community.  

This meditation is designed to help you visualize and manifest your ideal friendships and relationships within the gay community. By cultivating a clear vision and connecting with the energy of what you desire, you can attract and nurture fulfilling connections. Join Ronn Pawo McLane on this gentle journey in the cultivation of great relationships. 

In this guided meditation, host Ngakpa Ronn Pawo McLane leads listeners through a journey of self-discovery and compassion. The meditation begins with a body scan and relaxation exercise to release tension and create a calm and peaceful state of mind.
From there, Ngakpa Ronn Pawo McLane guides listeners through a process of cultivating compassion, starting with ourselves and extending to others. Through visualizations and focused breathing, we are invited to recognize and offer love, kindness, and understanding to ourselves and those around us.
With each breath, the compassionate light within us grows stronger, illuminating our hearts and minds and bringing us closer to a state of connection and wholeness. Through this practice, we are reminded that even small acts of compassion can bring positive change to ourselves and the world around us.
Whether you are new to meditation or an experienced practitioner, this guided meditation offers a powerful tool for cultivating compassion and promoting positive change in your life. Listen to it regularly and let the power of compassion transform you from within.

In this episode of the Backyard Buddhist Podcast, host Ngakpa Ronn Pawo McLane explores the transformative power of compassion. In today's world of polarization and division, it can be easy to feel disconnected and hopeless. But, as Ngakpa Ronn Pawo McLane reminds us, even a small act of compassion can have a profound impact on the world around us.
Throughout the episode, Ngakpa Ronn Pawo McLane shares practical tips for cultivating compassion, including showing kindness to ourselves, practicing active listening, and volunteering our time. He also shares a true story of how one compassionate conversation saved a life and how regular practice of compassion can bring positive change to our own lives and those around us.
In addition, Ngakpa Ronn Pawo McLane brings a touch of humor to the episode with a funny anecdote that demonstrates the power of compassion in action.
This episode is an approachable and relatable exploration of how we can all make a difference through simple acts of compassion. Whether you are new to the concept or looking to deepen your understanding, this episode of the Backyard Buddhist Podcast offers practical advice and inspiration to help you cultivate compassion in your daily life

Attentive awareness is the first solid skill that you can learn and sharpen to help ease your mind when you are feeling restless, stressed, or upset.  Use this meditation again and again to help you to practice short periods of focused attention where ease is the outcome.  The more you do it the easier it becomes.  Breath, relax, center, and smile this is your time to be.  

Explore this Meditation to help ease your mind when you are experiencing difficulty.  Supporting your mental well-being through this mindful practice.  

Feelings of being overwhelmed, nervous, anxious, dread, resentment, and anger are all indicators that our Mental Well-Being is off the tracks.  Through meditation I have been able to find the common threads for supporting my own well-being.  Meditation may not be a cure-all but it is a damn good start.  

In this short meditation with Ronn Pawo McLane we focus on noticing the breath to help retrain our attention to be here in the present moment.  Practice this a often as needed grounding yourself in this present moment, no matter what is happening around you.  

I am back and excited to share with you a new season of The Backyard Buddhist Podcast.  In this episode let's talk about enlightenment.  What is it and how do we get there?  Make it simple and cut to the chase!  It is your innate right and ability.  Go For it!  
 
If you'd like to be on the new season of the BYB to talk about your practice email me directly at urgyenpawo@gmail.com