Mindfulness Meditation Podcast · Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art

Mindfulness Meditation with Lavina Shamdasani 4/17/2025

·33 min·3 clips
Lavina reveals how a coffee meeting after 18 months of friendship silence led to a moment of honesty and vulnerability.
This episode features a guided meditation session led by teacher Lavina Shamdasani, focusing on forgiveness and renewal through self-compassion. It begins with an analysis of a 17th-century thangka painting of the Fifth Dalai Lama, then transitions to Lavina's personal story of friendship reconciliation and Buddhist insights on letting go of anger.

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A calm, honest meditation on forgiveness, renewal, and stopping pain from being passed on.

This meditation centers on forgiveness, renewal, and the effort to stop pain from being handed along again. The teacher's personal story keeps it grounded, and the move from hurt toward self-compassion gives it a plain, human weight rather than anything lofty.

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Press play if you want a meditation that meets hurt with patience and turns toward forgiveness and renewal.

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