…and love fully. These two talks explore the blessings of wisdom, love and freedom that naturally arise as, instead of resisting, we learn to open directly to the insecurity of…
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Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Life (27:44 min.)
…to inhabit the full aliveness, creativity and love our natural being. Listen to the talk: Saying “Yes” – Meeting Your Edge and Softening. In the shared quiet, an invitation arises…
Gratitude and Generosity
…that abundance, our natural response is generosity. This talk explores two pathways that directly give rise to gratitude and generosity: full presence, and the intentional remembrance of what we love….
Meditation: Collecting, Unifying and Opening the Mind (21:31 min.)
…listen to and feel the aliveness of the body. Listening to the breath as if you’re listening to the voice of a quiet loved one – really close in, tender…
Blog: The Space Between Stories: Evolving Consciousness
…to act, always; we need to act in our families to take care of our loved ones, and we need to act at work, and we need to act in…
True Refuge
…the face of inevitable change and loss – our bodies and minds, loved ones, our competence, our felt security – how do we awaken to the loving awareness that is…
Minting Gold – Embodying the Awakened Heart (Retreat Talk)
Our core conditioning expresses as both a longing for love and the pain of not trusting we are loveable. This talk explores how we create the experience of separation, and…
True Refuge
…difficulty. Beneath the turbulence of our thoughts and emotions exists a profound stillness, a silent awareness capable of limitless love. Tara Brach, bestselling author of Radical Acceptance, calls this awareness…
Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame – Part 2
Rumi invites us to find the barriers we’ve erected against love, and a universal one is blame. These three talks are an invitation to relax those barriers, and to open…
Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame – Part 1
Rumi invites us to find the barriers we’ve erected against love, and a universal one is blame. These three talks are an invitation to relax those barriers, and to open…
Transcript: Tonglen: Radical Compassion
…vulnerability—be held and offered into a very vast space of tenderness. You might imagine this as a field of love and presence that’s your own most awake heart. Or you…
Resources: Community Wisdom on Sleep
…over me, I speak to it, telling it I see it, I love it. I picture myself cradling it like a baby, rocking it with compassion. When I become aware…
Worrier Pose – Finding Freedom from the Body of Fear (retreat talk)
…of physical tension, anxious thinking, emotions and behaviors; and how this constellation prevents us from inhabiting our full wisdom and love. We then explore two interrelated pathways of healing—unconditional presence,…
The Sacred Pause
…of presence, wisdom and love (a favorite from the archives). “The deepest expression of love is this non-doing presence because that’s when we are inhabiting who we really are.” “The…
Part 1: Impermanence – Awakening Through Insecurity
…and love fully. These two talks explore the blessings of wisdom, love and freedom that naturally arise as, instead of resisting, we learn to open directly to the insecurity of…
Part 2: Vulnerability, Intimacy, & Spiritual Awakening
…one in which two people have the right to use the word “love” — is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of deepening the…
Skeleton Woman: Embracing This Living and Dying World
…we can embrace the whole of our nature with unconditional presence – including the inevitability of change and loss–we discover deep wisdom and enduring love. (a favorite from the archives)…
Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying Yes to the Moment (18:50 min)
…love. …Exploring what it means to unconditionally say “yes” to the life that’s here… In the moment when that “yes” becomes full, our hearts awaken in love. Tara Brach https://youtu.be/kRO9JOekQJo…
Meditation: Spacious, Loving Awareness (from retreat) (30:03 min.)
~ an Open Awareness Meditation ~ When our awareness is awake and open, we naturally respond to this changing life with warmth, tenderness and love. This practice helps us discover…
Three Gateways to Peace and Freedom
Three Gateways to Peace and Freedom ~ This talk explores the three archetypal refuges of truth, love and awareness. We look at the outer and inner aspects of each refuge,…