…ourselves trapped by our own beliefs and fears. We can see how we are wasting our precious lives. The way out of our cage begins with accepting absolutely everything we…
Accepting Absolutely Everything
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Part 1: Evolving Toward Unconditional Love
This two part series explores the evolutionary conditioning of fear and judgment that contracts us away from love and acceptance, and the quality of mindful presence – in relating inwardly…
Part 2: Realizing True Well-Being
Buddhist psychology and the Western oriented field of positive psychology agree: How we pay attention determines whether we live primarily in fear and judgment, or happiness and peace. This two…
Part 1: Hope and the Spiritual Path
This talk looks at the difference between egoic hopes and fears, and the quality of hopefulness (“holy hope”) that is an essential dimension in spiritual experience. We reflect on the…
Part 1 – The Sure Heart’s Release
…reflects on these habits, and explores how we can free ourselves by bringing a mindful, compassionate attention to places where we are most trapped in feeling separate, fearful and unworthy….
Blog: The Transforming Power of Mindful Prayer
…to our prayer. When we are willing to touch the pain of separation—the loneliness, the fear, the hurt–, our longing carries us to the tender and compassionate presence that is…
The Opportunity of “The Magic Quarter-second”
…getting this response—the more the impulse to ask for help becomes paired with the belief that she will be refused and the accompanying feelings (fear or hurt, anger or shame)….
Blog: Awakening Through Anger
…either acting them out or resisting them. I encouraged Amy to check in with her fear. Was it willing to let this rage be here? Could the fear step aside…
Blog: “Please Love Me”
Indian teacher Sri Nisargadatta writes, “The mind creates the abyss. The heart crosses over it.” Sometimes the abyss of fear and isolation is so wide that we hold back, unable…
Blog: Defending Against Loss
…do whatever’s possible to subdue the primal fear that comes with feeling out of control. Much of our daily activity is a vigilant effort to stay on top of things—to…
Blog: Happy For No Reason
…to feeling betrayed by my body, a defense against more loss. But in my fear of being attached to health, I’d not allowed myself to feel the truth—I love life….
Blog: The Sacred Art of Listening – Nourishing Loving Relationships
…listen. The more we understand, the less we fear; the less we fear, the more we trust and the more we trust, the more love can flow. Isn’t it true…
Inviting Life’s Difficulties to Tea
One of the most illuminating themes in the Buddha’s life story was the regular appearance of Mara–god of selfishness and greed, anger and fear, doubt and shame. Each time Mara…
“I realized I don’t have to believe my thoughts.”
…time our thoughts are not really serving us. Many thoughts are driven by fear and lock us into insecurity. During our residential meditation retreats, one of the biggest breakthroughs people…
The Space Between the Logs
…to pause! We each have an existential hum of fear that is in the background of our daily life. We have a perception of our temporariness, that around the corner…
Bringing Awareness to Doing
One of the core domains of egoic trance is addictive doing – chronic activity driven by fear and wanting that keeps us from realizing a wholeness of Being. This talk…
Blog: From Self-judgment to Compassion
…to many of us. We often distance ourselves from emotional pain—our vulnerability, anger, jealousy, fear—by covering it over with self-judgment. Yet, when we push away parts of ourselves, we only…
Befriending the Deities
The fruit of practice is releasing our identification with core beliefs and fear-based emotions, and realizing and inhabiting our Natural awareness. This is described as the N in RAIN –…
Living Aligned with the Heart
We suffer when our words or actions arise from unconscious wants and fears. This talk explores how we can awaken from the habitual ways we cause harm to ourselves and…
Blog: The Sacred Art of Listening – Nourishing Loving Relationships
…to listen. The more we understand, the less we fear; the less we fear, the more we trust and the more we trust, the more love can flow. Isn’t it…
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