Intimacy with Life – Awakening Love
The Buddha taught about four Divine Abodes–dwelling places of the awakened heart mind: lovingkindness, compassion, joy and equanimity. In this four-part series, we will explore the ways our conditioning blocks us from these expressions of inner freedom, and the understandings and practices that enable us to inhabit our full potential.
When We Don’t Make Anything “Wrong”
Sometimes when I talk about Radical Acceptance, I like to tell the story about Jacob, a man who at almost seventy and in the mid-stages of Alzheimer’s disease attended a 10-day retreat I was leading. A clinical psychologist by profession and a meditator for more than...Guided Meditation – Being Here (10:30 min)
A short guided meditation – when you only have 10 1/2 minutes…
Training for Intimacy with Life
“Enlightenment is intimacy with all things” teaches Zen Master Dogen. While we long for this intimacy, we are conditioned to avoid the vulnerability and fear that an intimate presence can arouse. This talk explores how our mindfulness and heart practices cultivate the capacity to be intimate with our sensations of aliveness, our emotions and the beings in our life.
Blog: The Sacred Pause
In our lives we often find ourselves in situations we can’t control, circumstances in which none of our strategies work. Helpless and distraught, we frantically try to manage what is happening. Our child takes a downward turn in academics and we issue one threat after...
When We Stop Running
Siddhartha, the Buddha-to-be, was the son of a wealthy king who ruled over a beautiful kingdom in the foothills of the Himalayas. At his birth, the king’s advisors predicted that he would either forego the world and become a holy man or he would be a great king and...Guided Meditation – Open Awareness
Part 2 – The Lion’s Roar
The Buddha taught that faith–trust in our true nature–is intrinsic to the spiritual path and the expression of wisdom. These two talks investigate the practices of presence that awaken our faith and the freedom that arises when our faith becomes radiant...
Running Away Deepens the Trance
A traditional folk tale tells the story of a man who becomes so frightened by his own shadow that he tries to run away from it. He believes that if only he could leave it behind, he would then be happy. The man grows increasingly distressed as he sees that no matter...
Running Away Deepens the Trance
A traditional folk tale tells the story of a man who becomes so frightened by his own shadow that he tries to run away from it. He believes that if only he could leave it behind, he would then be happy. The man grows increasingly distressed as he sees that no matter...Guided Meditation – Dance of Sensation
Part 1 – The Lion’s Roar
The Buddha taught that faith–trust in our true nature–is intrinsic to the spiritual path and the expression of wisdom. These two talks investigate the practices of presence that awaken our faith and the freedom that arises when our faith becomes radiant...
Tornare a casa
Buddha considerava l’atteggiamento inquisitivo come capacita’essenziale della ricerca spirituale. Che cosa e’questo? C’e’ qualcosa dentro di noi che vuole conoscere la vera natura delle cose…..chi sono? Cosa sta succendendo in questo momento? Che cosa e’ quella...