CC ~ One of the truths we most regularly forget is that if we are at war with ourselves, we can’t feel love and connection with our world. This talk…
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Introduction to the Heart Practices (35:55 min)
Instructions on the heart practices from the IMCW 2012 Spring Retreat – a guided lovingkindness or “metta” meditation to open the heart, call on love, and come home to presence…
Listening to the Song – Part 2 – “Removing the Fluff”
…it overflows and touches your skin, You are loved. When someone deeply listens to you, the room where you stay starts a new life and the place where you wrote…
War, Healing and Wisdom of the Heart – Live Online Event
…growing of peace, justice, compassion and love in our world. This event will be held via Zoom and space is limited. Registration is required to attend the Zoom meeting, and…
Divine Abodes: Equanimity
…reviews the key pathways to equanimity in the face of difficulty. We also explore the blessing of equanimity: the freedom to respond to our life with wisdom, compassion and love….
Mindful Speech
…the way they entrap us in a contracted and separate sense of self. We then explore the practices that help us speak from a courageous presence, wisdom and love. https://youtu.be/N6LMsExt3Uo…
The Backward Step
…backward step into the formless dimension of our own being. This talk explores the two pathways that awaken us from our stories of self and reveal the love and awareness…
The Blessings of Embodied Presence (retreat talk)
All that we cherish – love, creativity, wisdom and aliveness – becomes available when we come home to an embodied presence. This talk looks at how the two wings of…
Loving the Life Within Us (retreat talk)
If we don’t love the life we consider “self,” we will not realize or live from the loving awareness that is our essence. This talk guides us in bringing a…
The Barriers to Loving Presence
We long for love and habitually armor our hearts. This talk explores the aggression and clinging that protect our wound of feeling unlovable, and the ways that mindfulness can dissolve…
Intimacy with Life (Part 2)
Intimacy with Life – Awakening Love – Part 1A – The Buddha taught about four divine abodes–dwelling places of the awakened heart mind: lovingkindness, compassion, joy and equanimity. In this…
Intimacy with Life (Part 1)
Intimacy with Life – Awakening Love – Part 1B – The Buddha taught about four divine abodes–dwelling places of the awakened heart mind: lovingkindness, compassion, joy and equanimity. In this…
Realizing Our Undefended and Awakened Heart (Retreat Talk)
…This talk explores three essential facets of the pathway to awakening: Leaving the fortress of aversive judgment, entering the wilderness of our embodied being and encircling this life with love….
Awakening from Virtual Reality (Retreat Talk)
…wants to love without holding back and live from freedom. And we can then look at what’s true within us so deeply that we discover the very awake, empty presence…
Meditation: Collecting, Unifying and Opening the Mind (23:20 min.)
“Listening to the breath as if you’re listening to the voice of a quiet loved one – really close in, tender attention. Including in the background sounds. Not pushing away…
Meditation on Intention (21:35 min.)
This guided meditation was given as a prelude to the December 8th talk on “Ask the Friend for Love.”…
Evolving Consciousness–Beyond limiting Identities
…wholeness of Being that is our true nature. We explore the power of mindfulness –seeking not to change but to understand–and the expression of that understanding as love. The talk…
Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness (18:22 min.)
…space, filled with the light of awareness. We explore how every experience belongs to this infinite awake space of our Being, and can be held with tenderness and love. https://youtu.be/g7nIombPYm0…
The Heart Crosses the Abyss – Three Inner Trainings
…once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet https://youtu.be/diHtVbAHPA0…
Authentic Thanks Giving
…contacting and expressing our love (a favorite Thanksgiving talk re-mastered from the archives). On cold evenings my grandmother, with ownership of half her mind- the other half having flown back…
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