Viviendo de todo corazón
Las personas más felices que conozco tienen algo en común: encaran la vida de todo corazón, ya sea que estén meditando, jugando o trabajando. Tienen la capacidad de dar de si mismos completamente en el momento presente. A muchos de nosotros nos cuesta vivir la vida...
Listening With an Awake Heart
Listening to our inner life and each other is the grounds of healing, intimacy and love. This talk explores the challenges to offering a listening presence, and the qualities of open receptivity and interest that nourish true communicating.Guided Meditation: A Listening Presence
Blog: Freedom Finds Us When We Pause
“Temporary nirvana.” This is how contemporary Thai Buddhist teacher Ajahan Buddhadasa describes the precious interludes between all our “doing;” those times when we pause, and are not grasping after our experience, or resisting it. He writes that without such moments...
Guided Meditation: Space of Awareness (from Spring 2012 IMCW retreat)
This meditation is adapted from a meditation called “Open Focus.” Let whatever comes spontaneously to your awareness to be there as you follow along with the questions, which begin with, “Can you imagine…?”
Guided Meditation: Space of Awareness (from Spring 2012 IMCW retreat) (28:52 min.)
This meditation is adapted from a meditation called “Open Focus.” Let whatever comes spontaneously to your awareness to be there as you follow along with the questions, which begin with, “Can you imagine…?”
Finding Your Querencia in the Pause
In bullfighting there is an interesting parallel to what I call the art of pausing, as a place of refuge and renewal. It is believed that in the midst of a fight, a bull can find his own particular area of safety in the arena. There he can reclaim his strength and...
Blog: Compasión
Esta es una de mis historias preferidas. Una tarde, un perro que nunca había visto apareció en mi jardín. Se veía muy cansado el pobre. Como si nos conociécemos desde siempre, vino detrás mío por la puerta principal y se entró. Se fue por el pasillo principal hacia la...
Blog: La cooperación absoluta con lo inevitable
El místico jesuita, Anthony de Mello, dijo una vez: “La iluminación de nuestro ser es el resultado de la cooperación absoluta con lo inevitable.” Esta frase me hace reflexionar. Me parece que significa vivir de un modo en el cual estamos completamente abiertos hacia...
Introduction to the Heart Practices (instruction and meditation from retreat) (39:55 min.)
These instructions on the heart practices were given at the IMCW 2012 Spring Retreat. A guided lovingkindness or “metta” meditation to open the heart, call on love, and come home to presence follows.
Introduction to the Heart Practices (35:55 min)
Instructions on the heart practices from the IMCW 2012 Spring Retreat – a guided lovingkindness or “metta” meditation to open the heart, call on love, and come home to presence follows.
Blog: Radical Acceptance of Desire
When I was first introduced to Buddhism in a high school World Studies class, I dismissed it out-of-hand. This was during the hedonistic days of the late ‘60s, and this spiritual path seemed so grim with its concern about attachment and, apparently, anti-pleasure....
Blog: Radical Acceptance of Desire
When I was first introduced to Buddhism in a high school World Studies class, I dismissed it out-of-hand. This was during the hedonistic days of the late ‘60s, and this spiritual path seemed so grim with its concern about attachment and, apparently, anti-pleasure....
Part 2 – Freedom: Taking the Backward Step
This talk investigates the core conditioning that creates and sustains trance. We then explore two gateways to realizing and inhabiting our true nature – inquiry and letting go. Watch the video of “Part 2 – Freedom: Taking the Backward Step”