Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness (19:53 min.)

Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness (19:53 min.)

This meditation begins by guiding us through a scan: opening to inner space and aliveness, then to outer space, and then continuous space, filled with the light of awareness. We explore how every experience belongs to this infinite awake space of our Being, and can be...
A Generous Heart

A Generous Heart

Our deep potential is to live from an awake, loving heart. This talk looks at how, with a kind and mindful attention, we can decondition habitual tendencies toward grasping and self-centeredness, and nourish the sense of connectedness and care that gives rise to...
Becoming Happier: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Arthur Brooks

Becoming Happier: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Arthur Brooks

The Dalai Lama regularly says that everyone wants to be happy, nobody wants to suffer. Arthur Brooks, in his new book on getting happier (co-authored with Oprah Winfrey) digs into the practical and science-based approaches that increase deep wellbeing. In this...
Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying Yes to the Moment (18:50 min)

Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying Yes to the Moment (18:50 min)

When we are stressed, our conditioning is to tighten our body. We tense against our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation is a powerful practice of de-conditioning this reactivity by learning to relax back into presence, and to respond to difficulty by saying...
Mindful Glimpses: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Loch Kelly

Mindful Glimpses: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Loch Kelly

Loch Kelly is an author, psychotherapist and highly respected meditation teacher known for his instructions for effortless mindfulness. Our rich and wide-ranging conversation includes themes of interconnectedness, the natural weaves of psychology and meditation, the...
Meditation: Awake and Alive (18:04 min.)

Meditation: Awake and Alive (18:04 min.)

This guided practice includes a body scan, and an opening to the awareness that includes all of life. From that wakeful openness we offer a relaxed attentiveness to the changing flow, and close with loving kindness to ourselves and our world. …calling on the...
Four Spiritual Inquiries: Finding Heart Wisdom in Painful Times

Four Spiritual Inquiries: Finding Heart Wisdom in Painful Times

When we get stuck in difficult emotions like hatred, anger and fear, we are in a trance of separation – disconnected from the whole of our inner experience, each other and the web of life. This talk explores four inquiries that help us reconnect with presence...
Radical Self-Forgiving

Radical Self-Forgiving

When we can’t forgive ourselves, we remain imprisoned and separate from our world. This talk explores forgiving as a process of relaxing open the clenched fist of self-blame. As forgiving becomes deep and full, we discover the freedom of a spacious, awake and loving...
Meditation: Letting Thought Clouds Come and Go (21:56 min.)

Meditation: Letting Thought Clouds Come and Go (21:56 min.)

This meditation guides us through a body scan and into a relaxed, open presence. When we realize we are lost in a thought cloud, our practice is to relax open, listening to and feeling the life of the present moment. We are training to become increasingly aware of the...
Awakening from the Trance of Self-Centeredness

Awakening from the Trance of Self-Centeredness

At the core of our suffering is our universal human predicament: an illusion that we are a separate self. This talk explores how this identification as a self obscures our belonging to loving awareness, and offers a powerful set of practices that shine a light on...
Path of Sacred Relatedness – Undoing the Blocks to Loving Presence

Path of Sacred Relatedness – Undoing the Blocks to Loving Presence

We long for soul friends, and yet often engage with each other in reactive ways – caught inside the experience of a wanting, guarded, fearful self. This talk explores practices that release identification with these scales that confine us, so we can remember the...