This talk explores what gets in the way of loving presence and the training that awakens and frees our hearts….
The Divine Abodes: Metta – Lovingkindness (a dharma talk)
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Introduction to the Heart Practices (instruction and meditation from retreat) (39:55 min.)
…the heart practices were given at the IMCW 2012 Spring Retreat. A guided lovingkindness or “metta” meditation to open the heart, call on love, and come home to presence follows….
Joy
…this capacity for openness, happiness and full aliveness can be obscured. This talk guides us in how to nurture joy through a committed presence that unfolds into “loving what is.”…
Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath (14:48 min.)
Our breath is always available as a pathway back to presence. This simple meditation guides us to relax and awaken in the body, and then establishes the breath as a…
Earth’s Crisis: On the Edge of the Roof
…the inner practices of presence that enable us to respond from love and wisdom (from the archives). When the animals come to us asking for our help, will we know…
Listening to the Song
…and attention is the gateway to understanding and love. This talk explores the challenges to deep listening, and offers ways of paying attention that awaken a healing listening presence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVY6fI-a7y8…
Part 2: Trusting Your Basic Goodness
…awakening from limiting beliefs, dissolving the resistance to direct embodied presence, and discovering the space and tenderness – the formless dimension – that is indivisible and whole. Enjoy Part 1:…
Meditation: The RAIN of Compassion (30:00 min)
The acronym RAIN (Recognize-Allow-Investigate-Nurture) is one of the most powerful tools I know for working with difficult emotions and discovering the freedom of an awake, compassionate presence. The 4-steps of…
Blessings of Soul Recognition
We live under an enchantment that has us see ourselves and each other as separate egoic entities. This talk draws on an Arthurian legend and explores the pathways of presence…
Freedom and Happiness in Daily Life
How you live today is how you live your life. This talk explores different meditative practices and teachings that help us reconnect with and nurture presence in the midst of…
Part 2: From Fight-Flight-Freeze to Attend-Befriend
…– a trusted other person or safe group – to engender the presence and compassion that enables us to relax and reconnect with our own wholeness and with others. https://youtu.be/a25T4KlaQDs…
Part 5: Equanimity: A Heart That is Ready for Anything
Equanimity is the quality of presence that is open, balanced and non-reactive. As this talk explores, when equanimity is lacking, we become easily lost in trance, identified as a defended…
Part 2: Unconditional Love
…embodied presence, discovering who we are when not confined by the limiting beliefs and feelings of an egoic self. The first focuses on accepting and embracing our inner life, and…
Part 4: Opening to Joy
Our innate capacity for joy is blocked by our habitual ways of paying attention. This talk explores three key pathways of presence that connect us with our full openness and…
Awakening from Virtual Reality (Retreat Talk)
…the very awake, empty presence that is our essence. And we can live from that so that our lives become an expression of that realization. An expression of loving presence.”…
Meditation: Relaxed and Alert (21:33 min.)
This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness that includes sounds,…
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…
The Heartspace That is Our True Home (retreat talk)
…right here–ourselves–we discover the heartspace that holds this world. This talk explores the pathways of forgiveness, offering and letting in love, and gratitude that reveal the vastness of loving presence….
Part 2: Relating to the Fearsome Deities
…this talk explores three approaches to relating to fear with a mindful and compassionate presence. https://youtu.be/S9W_478GNrw The flute meditation at the end of the talk is given by Akal Dev….
The Gift of Silence
…quieting can turn into a battle with the process of the thinking mind. This talk explores practices that allow us to settle in a natural way, the presence which is…
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