Part 2: Impermanence – Awakening Through Insecurity
From the view of the separate self, this existence is inherently uncertain, and we are profoundly vulnerable. Our habitual reaction to insecurity fuels separation, and limits our capacity to live and love fully. These two talks explore the blessings of wisdom, love...
Part 1: Impermanence – Awakening Through Insecurity
From the view of the separate self, this existence is inherently uncertain, and we are profoundly vulnerable. Our habitual reaction to insecurity fuels separation, and limits our capacity to live and love fully. These two talks explore the blessings of wisdom, love...
Meditation: Opening to the Flow (24:17 min.)
This meditation begins with gathering awareness of the breath. We then reflect on our deepest intention, sensing what most matters. With a listening attention, becoming aware of sounds that arise and pass away. We scan through the body, sensing the changing experience...
JAPANESE Taraのお話：私は今何を避けようとしているのだろう？
（字幕：マジストラリ佐々木啓乃） このトークの中でタラは私達がいかに常に何かに直面するのを避けようとしているのかという、彼女の大切な友人が死に直面する事で得た洞察の話をします。自分が無意識に何に抵抗しているかに気が付き始める事で人生の自然な流れに再び乗る事が出来るのです。 タラのお話の全編はこちらから（英語） The Reality of Change: Embracing this Living Dying World To watch this clip with English captions:...
Part 2: Awakening through Anger – The U-Turn to Freedom (from archives)
While we have strong conditioning to react to aggression with more aggression, we have the capacity to pause, and instead deepen attention and connect to our natural wisdom and empathy. This talk looks at how we can directly engage in this evolutionary adaptation when...
Meditation: Breathing Our Way to Peace & Freedom (19:38 min.)
This meditation guides us in collecting attention with an intentional long deep breath, and awakening a full relaxed presence as the breath resumes in its natural rhythm. Resting fully in this presence is the gateway to deep peace and inner freedom. “Little breath...
Part 1: Awakening through Anger – The U-Turn to Freedom (from archives)
Anger is naturally triggered when we feel an obstacle to meeting our needs. How do we honor the intelligence within anger, but not get hijacked into emotional reactivity that creates suffering in our individual and collective lives? This talk explores the U-turn that...
Meditation: The Heartspace that is Home (25:07 min.)
“No matter how far you’ve wandered, this heartspace – this awake tender awareness – is only a half-breath of remembrance away.” This meditation awakens attention to the space of awareness… a special meditation from 2015-11-11 – includes community chanting...
Part 2: Vulnerability, Intimacy, & Spiritual Awakening
We each live with uncertainty and the fear of rejection and loss, and we each are conditioned to avoid feeling or expressing that vulnerability. Yet intimacy with this unlived life is the gateway to connecting authentically with others, full aliveness and spiritual...
Meditation: Awakening Our Energy Body (19:51 min.)
This meditation scans the body and directly invites the awakening of key energy centers (chakras) in our body. We then rest in the openhearted awareness that includes this ever changing creative flow of aliveness (a special meditation from the archives).
Part 1: Vulnerability, Intimacy, & Spiritual Awakening
We each live with uncertainty and the fear of rejection and loss, and we each are conditioned to avoid feeling or expressing that vulnerability. Yet intimacy with this unlived life is the gateway to connecting authentically with others, full aliveness and spiritual...
Meditation: Awake & Open Awareness (21:02 min.)
This calming meditation practice helps settle the mind with the breath and then opens to the changing flow of experience, letting life be just as it is. (a classic from the archives) In French: Une conscience ouverte et éveillée
Discovering the Power of Prayer
We all know the pain of separation and have a longing for connection. When we silently listen to and contact the depth of that longing, we are at the root of transformational prayer. This talk looks at what prayer is, who/what we are praying to, the shadow side of...