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Friday Night Guided Meditation

Ajahn Hasapanna · 28 October 2025 · 29 min · Buddhist Society of Western Australia

Ajahn Hasapanna guides a meditation for approximately 30 minutes. Support us on https://ko-fi.com/thebuddhistsocietyofwa BSWA teachings are available: BSWA Teachings BSWA Podcast Channel BSWA DeeperDhamma Podbean Channel BSWA YouTube


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  • 0:00

    Okay, so we're going to begin the meditation. Just make yourself as comfortable as you can and just try to relax your body and just be with whatever feelings, sensations that you feel in your body and try to relax your body as much as you can and noticing there's any tightness or tension in your body and just relax your body.

  • 1:11

    Relaxing your body as a way to calming your mind. As your mind calms down, you start to begin the meditation by taking three deep breaths with full attention to unite your mind and body to arrive in this moment.

  • 3:11

    you notice that you've been carried away by the thoughts that thinking about the future or about the past. Just be aware and not get involved and entertain those thoughts. Just simply

  • 4:26

    continue observing your breath, your in-breath and your out-breath with gratitude. Just be grateful for the breath that gives us life, to keep us alive. Just simply observing.

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0:00 Okay, so we're going to begin the meditation. Just make yourself as comfortable as you can and just try to relax your body and Report an error in the passage at 0:00

0:15 just be with whatever feelings, sensations that you feel in your body and try to relax your body as much as you can and Report an error in the passage at 0:15

0:44 noticing there's any tightness or tension in your body and just relax your body. Just remind yourself, just relax. Report an error in the passage at 0:44

1:11 Relaxing your body as a way to calming your mind. As your mind calms down, you start to begin the meditation by taking three deep breaths with full attention to Report an error in the passage at 1:11

1:37 unite your mind and body to arrive in this moment. Report an error in the passage at 1:37

1:49 Observing and acknowledging whatever happening in this moment, whether there is pleasant or unpleasant, just fully aware. Report an error in the passage at 1:49

2:14 Observing patiently in this moment with awareness and understanding what happened is what's happening. Not try to experience things that you have heard or you have read. Report an error in the passage at 2:14

2:40 Just observing. Whatever happens in this moment in a relaxed way. So Report an error in the passage at 2:40

2:58 be aware of any thoughts, notice that arises in this moment and Report an error in the passage at 2:58

3:11 you notice that you've been carried away by the thoughts that thinking about the future or about the past. Report an error in the passage at 3:11

3:27 Just be aware and not get involved and entertain those thoughts. Report an error in the passage at 3:27

3:38 Just simply Observing, acknowledging, accepting whatever is happening in this moment with kindness. Just Report an error in the passage at 3:38

4:26 continue observing your breath, your in-breath and your out-breath with Report an error in the passage at 4:26

4:39 gratitude. Just be grateful for the breath that gives us life, to keep us alive. Report an error in the passage at 4:39

5:02 Just simply observing. Report an error in the passage at 5:02

5:08 The in and out breath with Report an error in the passage at 5:08

5:15 full awareness. Report an error in the passage at 5:15

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Talk by Ajahn Hasapanna, recorded 28 October 2025. Original at Buddhist Society of Western Australia: https://podcast.bswa.org/e/friday-night-guided-meditation-ajahn-hasapanna-24-october-2025/. Licensed No license stated; shared with the archive's knowledge (courtesy note). Transcript generated automatically and may contain errors; the audio is the authoritative version.

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