Loving Life: Gratitude and Generosity
Love is innate, and blossoms as we intentionally cultivate it. This talk on two natural expressions of loving life — gratitude and generosity — includes several guided reflections that awaken the heart.
Guided Meditation on Listening (26:26 min.)
This guided meditation was given as a prelude to the November 17th talk on “A Listening Presence – Three Domains of Training.”
A Listening Presence – Three Domains of Training
Cultivating the capacity for listening is essential to loving well and to realizing the truth of who we are. This talk focuses on three key facets of deep listening–non-distractedness, not-controlling and seeking to understand– that can awaken an intimacy with our inner life and others. Guided meditations on listening precede and are included within the body of the talk.
Releasing Karmic Patterns
We all have conditioned patterns of thinking and behaving that keep us identified as a separate, deficient self. This talk investigates the roots of this conditioning and ways that pausing and awakening mindfulness can free us to live from our inherent love and wisdom.
Part 4 – Living From Presence – Introduction to Meditation
Our human potential is to express the wings of presence–mindfulness and lovingkindness–through all facets of daily living. This talk explores the practices that enable us to both serve and savor this precious...
Charla: Introducción a la Meditación Parte 3: Consciencia Plena de Pensamientos
El elemento principal de la meditación es aprender a despertarse del trance de los pensamientos. Esta clase explora dos formas claves en que la meditación promueve este despertar. La primera es usar la reflección sabia para distinguir si los pensamientos nos están...
Part 3 – Mindfulness of Thoughts – Introduction to Meditation
The primary element in meditation is training to awaken from the trance of thoughts. This class explores two key ways that mindfulness supports this awakening. The first is using wise reflection to discern if thoughts are imprisoning us in fear or serving healing and...
Part 2 – Mindfulness of Emotions – Introduction to Meditation
Our conditioning is to live in a reactive trance of either resisting or become possessed by strong emotions. This reactivity fuels a trance of being separate from others, and feeling defective and insecure. In this class we explore how to free ourselves from this...
Part 1 – The Art and Science of Meditation – Introduction to Meditation
The first session defines meditation and describes the Buddhist teachings that give a context to the path of practice. We explore the two basic types of meditation–concentration and mindfulness–and then focus on the ground of mindfulness training: bringing...
Charla: Introducción a la Meditación Parte 1: El Arte y Ciencia de la Meditación
La primera sesión define la meditación y describe las enseñanzas budistas que le dan contexto al camino de la práctica. Exploramos las dos formas básicas de meditación – concentración y conciencia plena – y luego nos enfocamos en el entrenamiento de...
The Path of Peace
The Path of Peace
Loving the Earth
How is it possible that we humans have wreaked such havoc on this planet, on the web of life that we belong to? This talk explores the ways that egoic consciousness can lead to violating life, and how evolving consciousness can move us toward healing this earth.
The Power of Mindful Investigation
We each have a deep interest in reality–in understanding what is true and who we are. In Buddhist teachings, our interest, and its expression in wise investigation, energize the path of awakening. This talk explores how mindful investigation can free us from emotional suffering, nourish loving relatedness and create the conditions for deep spiritual realization.
Be All That You Are
We are conditioned to live in stories that obscure the vastness, goodness and mystery of what we are. This talk explores the ways we construct a limited self-identity and the pathways to realizing and living from a fullness of our Being.
Equanimity
Cultivating equanimity means awakening our capacity to meet the winds of life with a non-reactive, open, balanced presence. The gift of this presence is that we can see clearly what is happening within and around us, and respond with wisdom, creativity and compassion. This talk looks at our habits of reacting, and the ways we can come home to equinimity in the midst of life’s challenges.